US based automotive firm American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) will invest GBP3.6m in its new manufacturing and engineering centre of excellence at Glasgow plant. The investment will be used for new equipment, machinery, as well as in ...
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Ireland-based food company ABP Food is set to shut down its Freshlink sausage facility in Glasgow,Scotland,early next year,a move which will lead to a loss of 150 jobs. The factory,which represents the ABP Food's UK sausage division ...
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Freshlink Foods is planning to close its frozen sausage factory in Glasgow, Scotland, putting nearly 145 jobs at risk. The company has initiated a 90-day consultation period with its workforce about the future of the plant. According to ...
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Aviva, a UK multinational insurance company has warned that it will slash approximately 800 jobs in its UK operation, as part of its austerity measure to reduce the cost substantially and bring the life insurer on the track. The ...
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Canadian packaging company CCL Industries has signed an agreement to acquire John Watson & Company, a label converter in Glasgow, Scotland, through the purchase of shares. The acquisition is said to complement the global network of CCL ...
Scottish food researchers have claimed to have created the world's first nutritionally balanced pizza,which provides 30%of an adult's recommended daily amount(RDA)of vitamins and minerals. The new pizza,which has been developed by ...
TNT Logistics UK has been awarded a five-year contract to operate two man home delivery services for the newly-launched Tesco Direct. The nationwide service will utilise dedicated Tesco Direct vehicles as well as TNT Logistics' multi-user ...
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Finalists for the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Best Partnership Award (announced in London on 22 November) included a laser engineering research partnership involving Compound Semiconductor Technologies Global Ltd (CSTG) of Hamilton ...
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Crowdsourced funding website Kickstarter,which lists projects that are seeking financial backing,has expanded to the UK. The site,which operates on a 5%commission on each successful pledge,has raised more than$340m in the US,where it was ...
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Outsourcing firm Capgemini is on the hunt for more UK apprentices after raising its planned intake figure for 2012 from 98 to 200. After reporting a surge in applications,mostly from school leavers looking for an alternative to ...
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UK - Wet Wet Wet, recently reformed for a one-off show in Glasgow to mark their 25th anniversary, appearing on Glasgow Green to a crowd of 12,000. FOH engineer, Steve Pattison, selected an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system, ...
UK-The d&b audiotechnik Electroacoustics seminar hosted by The Warehouse Sound Services in Glasgow is scheduled for Wednesday 21November,at 40 Carmichael Street,Govan,Glasgow,G51 2QU. Presented by Oran Burns from the d&b GB Education and ...
Altera outgrew the semiconductor industry by almost 2x over the last four years and outgrew the ASSP market by 3x,says John Daane,CEO of Altera. The driver of Altera's growth is the increasing cost of ASSP."Companies are spending$100m to ...
Edinburgh Airport's new owner is attempting to grow the business,with a multi-million pound IT outsourcing deal the first of many investments planned. The airport will spend 3m pounds over five years with service provider Onyx to provide ...
EE has confirmed the launch date for its 4G services as 30 October 2012,which will make it the first operator to offer the faster mobile connectivity in the UK. The announcement was made by the company's CEO,Olaf Swantee,who called the ...
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