The Association of European Businesses (AEB) revealed depressive car market in Russia for seven consecutive months in September while Chinese carmakers have outperformed the local market. In the month, Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. ...
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RPM International Inc. today said that outstanding performance in the company's consumer segment and more modest gains in its industrial segment resulted in significant increases in sales, net income and diluted earnings per share for the ...
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Industry 4.0 is a project in the high-tech strategy of the German government, which promotes the computerisation of traditional industries such as manufacturing. CC-Link is an open industrial network that enables devices from numerous ...
EGI Financial (EGI) has inked a definitive stock purchase agreement with a specialty insurance firm, White Pine Insurance Company (White Pine), to dispose of its US non-standard automobile insurance operations. Based on the agreement, ...
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PPG Industries reported record second quarter net sales in 2013 of $4.1 billion, up 16 percent versus the prior year. Second quarter 2013 reported net income from continuing operations was $341 million, or $2.35 per diluted share. Adjusted ...
Tags: coating, Construction, Decoration
More than half (58%) of European mid-sized firms refuse to do business with a company that had suffered a data breach, despite the fact that 41% believe data loss is just an inevitable part of daily business, a new study has revealed. The ...
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The Romanian cement market declined 0.2 percent in 2012 owing to bad weather and an unfavorable economic context, and this year seems no better as yet. Any growth by yearend will be small, and could only come from infrastructure investments ...
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The EU and Japan finished the first week-long round of negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) less than a month after negotiations were officially launched. The EU team is headed up by Mauro Petriccione, Director in the European ...
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The coating resins business that was formerly part of Cytec Industries Inc. announced that it has become an independent company with the completion of the previously announced sale from Cytec to funds affiliated with Advent International. ...
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The EU and Japan officially launched the negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The aim is for a comprehensive agreement in goods, services and investment eliminating tariffs, non-tariff barriers and covering other trade-related ...
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Samsung was the largest applicant for European patents last year. Siemens, BASF, Ericsson and Bosch were all in the top ten for applications and, for the first time, A Chinese company – ZTE – made it into the top ten. The ...
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Research reveals that almost half of European businesses plan to increase their budgets for CRM initiatives in 2013. A recent survey by Gartner found that only 5% of companies in Europe plan to decrease their CRM this year, down from 9% ...
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Canadian dairy group Saputo looks set to quit Europe after deciding to close plants in the UK and Germany. Saputo said today (25 February) it did not have the "critical mass" for its European operations to be profitable. It announced ...
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European businesses will only need three quarters of a desk per employee by 2020 due to the impact of remote working. According to a survey of almost 2,000 senior IT decision makers commissioned by Citrix, large organisations are already ...
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The industry has welcomed the European Commission's (EC's) ambitious cloud computing strategy but insisted more efforts are needed in areas of cloud standardisation, security and data protection if the EC'sforecasts are to be met. The ...
Tags: European Commission, cloud computing, cloud standardisation