Ireland based bus maker, Wrightbus, has won GBP41m contract from Singapore’s SBS Transit for the supply of 550 double-decker buses over the next three years. The 40ft Gemini 2 Double Deck buses will be manufactured as kits in the ...
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The Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs(Defra)is asking businesses and consumers for their views on the government's plans to bring in legislation that will improve the information provided to consumers,so they are able to ...
Tags: legislation, informed choices, food labelling legislation
The Plastics 2020 Challenge, along with PlasticsEurope, has condemned the anti-bag campaigners in Northern Ireland for what they claim are frightening tactics. Plastics 2020 Challenge includes the British Plastics Federation, Britain's ...
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Almac in Northern Ireland and VTU Technology in Austria have teamed up to offer joint services for the expression of recombinant proteins with site-specific modification and labeling such as PEGylation for half-life extension of proteins. ...
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Volvo has delivered 36 Euro 5 B7RLE buses with Wrightbus Eclipse 2 bodywork to Go South Coast, a unit of the Go Ahead Group, to be used under the Wilts & Dorset brand. All the new low emission buses are built at the Wrightbus factory in ...
Tags: Volvo, new low emission buses, common rail diesel engine, gearbox
Ditty's Bakery,a bakery business based in Castledawson,Northern Ireland,has entered into an agreement to supply oatcakes to Tesco stores in Ireland. Under the agreement,the bakery will supply oatcake and sweet oat biscuit products to ...
UK meat processor Linden Foods has secured a deal to supply bacon to Ahold's Albert Heijn stores in the Netherlands. Linden's Kettyle Irish Foods subsidiary is to sell "sustainably-produced" bacon to Albert Heijn, founder Maurice Kettyle ...
Insurance intermediary Towergate Insurance has acquired Belfast-based Dawson Whyte,which is a provider of both commercial and personal lines insurance services across Ireland,Northern Ireland and across the UK. As per the accord,directors ...
Meat firm Kettyle Irish Foods has won a £1.2M contract to export bacon to Albert Heijn, a leading European food retailer based in the Netherlands. In addition to bacon, the County Fermanagh-based firm produces dry aged beef, lamb, ...
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Dutch food giant Vion's plans to sell its UK food businesses throwing into doubt the future of its 13,000 UK employees was"almost an inevitability,"according to leading City analysts. Julian Wild,food group director at legal firm ...
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Renewed calls for the government to give the supermarket watchdog sharp teeth came today(November 19)from anti-poverty agency ActionAid,as the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill enters its second reading in the House of Commons. It urged the ...
DeCare Dental Insurance, Claremorris-based dental benefit management company, has introduced its dental insurance service in Northern Ireland, in a bid to continue expansion in the country. Northern Ireland is a new region, but high level ...
Tags: Service, DeCare Dental Insurance, subsidiary of WellPoint
UK-The Arena Group has begun the installation of a temporary building that will host a variety of major indoor events throughout 2013 in Londonderry,Northern Ireland as it is named UK City of Culture,October 2012. Arena's TFS structure ...
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Ceefax, the original "information superhighway", will cease to exist on Wednesday when the last analogue television signal in the UK is switched off. Arising out of a brainstorming session at the BBC in the early 1970s, the pioneering ...
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The recycling processes of contaminated textiles, extracted from landfills and co-mingled kerbside collections, are not environmentally and economically viable, according to two UK recycling firms, I & G Cohen Limited and Axion Consulting, ...