The Board of Royal Dutch Shell plc (“RDS”) today announced the Reference Share Price in respect of the first quarter interim dividend of 2016, which was announced on May 4, 2016 at $0.47 per A ordinary share (“A ...
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT: NYSE) today announced completion of the company’s acquisition of Jet.com, Inc., following expiration of the waiting period under federal regulations. The news was initially shared on Instagram by Walmart ...
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Canadian poultry and pork producer Olymel has announced to invest $11m to expand and modernize its pork processing plant at St-Henri-de-Lévis, Quebec. The investment will be used to establish new equipment at the facility which is ...
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GigPeak Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (formerly GigOptix), which provides integrated circuits and software solutions for high-speed connectivity and high-quality video compression over the network and the cloud, has announced the availability ...
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Algaia has entered into an agreement to acquire Cargill’s alginates business and its production plant in Lannilis, northwestern France. The acquisition is aimed at accelerating the development the field of natural extracts, more ...
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European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has completed its re-evaluation of all food colours permitted for use in the European Union before 2009. For the final re-evaluation, EFSA’s experts concluded that available data on titanium ...
NewCold Advanced Logistics has awarded contracts to Dematic to build two high-bay warehouses at new sites in Truganina, Melbourne. The automated cold storage facilities, which when built will be the largest of their kind in the Southern ...
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Iceland-based seafood company Icelandic Group has entered into an agreement to sell its Spanish subsidiary Icelandic Ibérica to Solo Seafood for undisclosed sum. Solo Seafood, which is owned by Icelandic seafood companies, is one ...
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Food and engineering group Carr’s has sold its flour milling business to Whitworths Holdings for £36m. Carr’s said that the disposal of its food division will enable it to increase focus on its growing agriculture and ...
US snacks firm Amplify Snack Brands has completed the acquisition of UK-based potato crisps producer Tyrrells from private equity firm Investcorp. The completion resulted in Tyrrells becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amplify. For ...
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US-based Yum! Brands has entered into an agreement with Primavera Capital and Ant Financial Services to invest a total of $460m in Yum China. While Primavera Capital is a China-based global private equity firm, Ant Financial is an online ...
Sweden-based vegetable oils and fats producer AAK has announced the completion of the acquisition of California Oils (CalOils). In July, AAK announced that it was acquiring CalOils, which is based in Richmond, California, from ...
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True World Foods, a major seafood distributor based in New Jersey, has been exonerated in the hepatitis A outbreak that has sickened more than 200 people in Hawaii this summer. Initial reports of the company's involvement were ...
Chinese pork production company WH Group revealed that CDH Investments, one of its major investors, is planning to sell 10.61% stake in the company worth about HK$9.25bn($1.19bn). CDH is planning to offload a total of 1.55 billion shares ...
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Packaging solutions provider Snacktops has introduced new line of portable snack and beverage containers designed to meet the demands for on-the-go food items. The new interlocking food and beverage containers are designed to allow ...