DFS has secured a new £230m funding package from a banking syndicate led by Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking following its recent stock market listing. The funding includes a £200m term loan that will be used to repay existing ...
Closely-held Outdoor Tech has engaged Wunderlich Securities of Newport Beach, CA for financial and strategic advisory services to help support the company’s current and future growth. Based in Lost Angeles in 2010, Outdoor Tech ...
The average customer satisfaction score for Amazon slipped five points to 83 to tie with QVC for the highest score among the top 100 e-commerce sites measured over the holidays, likely because of increased price competition, according to ...
Authors who are at the forefront of the technology industry with books addressing business strategy, Internet culture and disruptive products and services will be featured at the 2015 International CES® as part of Gary’s Book ...
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Charlesbank Capital Partners and Partners Group closed on their previously announced acquisition of Varsity Brands Dec. 15. "The entire Varsity Brands team is united as never before to ensure we inspire and champion greater ...
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Furniture Village, the UK’s largest privately-owned furniture retailer, has won The Thames Valley Business Magazine’s award for Management Team Of The Year, sponsored by RBS. The awards were announced on 20th November at the ...
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Freedom Group, the parent of Remington, reported a loss of $6.4 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 28, against earnings of $30.6 million a year earlier. Sales slid 27.1 percent to $253.6 million from $347.1 million a year ago, ...
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TNT Australia has taken delivery of the first Euro 6 emission-compliant trucks in Australia, several years ahead of the new regulations taking effect in Australia. Euro 6 is the European Commission’s most stringent diesel exhaust ...
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The New York-based retail chain is turning to toys to pick up the slack by stocking more LEGO, dolls and board games than before. International book retailer Barnes & Noble is selling more toys than ever, in order to compensate for slow ...
Global Digital Solutions, Inc., a little-known technology company based in Palm Beach, FL, has reportedly made an unsolicited offer to purchase Freedom Group, Inc., also known as Remington Outdoor Company, Inc., for $1.082 billion in cash ...
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Organ transplant patients routinely receive drugs that stop their immune systems from attacking newly implanted hearts, livers, kidneys or lungs, which the body sees as foreign. But new research at Washington University School of Medicine ...
Retrieving organs from brain-dead donors is logistically challenging and time consuming in hospitals. Multiple surgical teams often fly to a donor's hospital but frequently face delays in retrieving organs due to crowded operating-room ...
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There is a big effort in industry to produce electrical devices with more and faster memory and logic. Magnetic memory elements, such as in a hard drive, and in the future in what is called MRAM (magnetic random access memory), use ...
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Children exposed to cigarette smoke at home have lower levels of an enzyme that helps them respond to asthma treatment, a study has found. Passive smoking is known to worsen asthma symptoms in children and impair their response to inhaled ...
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Dark Horse range to debut at NY Toy Fair Two new lines of Game of Thrones figures are on the way from Funko and Dark Horse. Funko's Legacy Collection of higly articulated figures will be available exclusively in Barnes & Noble stores, ...
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