As a UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) Trade Challenge Partner, The Lighting Industry Association (LIA) works hard to assist SMEs to increase their export market potential. The LIA has achieved this through the creation of a number of UK ...
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Japanese drinks company Asahi Group has agreed to acquire SABMiller’s Peroni, Grolsch, Meantime brands for $2.9bn, clearing another hurdle for the Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller’s $108bn merger. The acquisition is ...
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Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced the federal government will begin measuring and quantifying the ecoomic impact of the outdoor recreation economy when calculating gross domestic product. Jewell, who served as CEO for REI before ...
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is providing $4.7m grants for food safety education, training, and technical assistance projects, which will enable farmers and small food processors, vegetable and fruit merchants and others to ...
Smart packaging company Magic Add has collaborated with food and drink packaging firm Huhtamaki on digitalized applications for foodservice packaging. Magic Add has pooled about $250,000 in angel funding for product development and ...
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US-based private-equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) has agreed to provide €100m debt and equity financing to sustainable packaging provider Petainer UK. The funding will be used by Petainer to finance its capital structure and ...
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ACCO Semiconductor Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a fabless provider of RF front-end components manufactured using standard high-volume bulk CMOS processes for smart-phone and Internet of Things (IoT) applications, has closed a $35m funding ...
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European policy makers and European automakers have reached an agreement to work together on deploying connected and self-driving vehicles across the region. All the parties have endorsed the 'Declaration of Amsterdam' during Informal ...
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BOC has signed an agreement with ITM Power to provide infrastructure for ITM Power’s new electrolyser-based hydrogen refueling stations for passenger cars. The announcement underpins ITM Power's ongoing plans to build a network of ...
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Researchers from the University of Sheffield have partnered with technology company Novalia to develop electronic screens and then attaching it to paper-based packaging to display information. The move is claimed to revolutionize the ...
Australian governments have spent unprecedented sums on transport infrastructure in the past decade, and while important projects have been built the overall investment has been poorly directed, according to a new Grattan Institute report. ...
Rastelli Foods Group announced a partnership with Bubba's-Q and Three Jerks Jerky. Rastelli will be assisting its new partners with products and other important areas of businesses. Headed by former NFL player Al 'Bubba' Baker, Bubba's-Q ...
Soup maker Tio Gazpacho has completed a $1.25m Series A funding round from investors led by 301 Inc, which is a General Mills’ venture capital arm. The Series A round also included investments from other private investors in ...
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Turkey-based non-profit research organisation Soley Biotechnology Institute has discovered a method to increase the shelf-life of cheese by three to 10 times, after a four-year study with $20m funding. The research institute was working ...
The US Department of Defense's Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate, Devices for Sensing Branch (AFRL/RYDD) has issued a Request For Information (RFI) titled 'Development of Large Diameter Silicon Carbide Substrate and ...