The release of Microsoft's Windows 8 touchscreen-enabled operating system in October saw manufacturers scurry to release a spate of new notebooks, all-in-one computers and tablet devices capable of using it. With Windows 8 you can open ...
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Apple Australia says it is making some MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models more affordable with faster processors and lower starting prices. In Australia,the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display will now cost from $1,649 for a device ...
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US meat group Tyson Foods is expanding four of its plants in the country as part of a strategy to "add value" to their products. Tyson said it has spent US$40m on facilities in Texas, Tennessee, Virginia and Florida. "Tyson continues ...
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Wholesale meat supplier Rectory Foods has collapsed into administration. Business recovery firm Leonard Curtis has been appointed administrator at Manchester-based rectory, which has been trading since 1996 and fell into administration ...
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Indian steel making company, Tata Steel, has announced initiatives that will provide long term advances to its clients in the lifting and excavating sectors in the UK. The relighting of Blast Furnace No 4 at Port Talbot, a new high ...
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Businesses are increasingly taking advantage of the economic and political benefits of setting up operations in Malaysia, whether to gain access to a highly skilled but lower-cost workforce to support global operations, or as a stepping ...
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Chances are you're already doing business with CDW. After all, the Vernon Hills, Ill.-based provider of tech products and services boasts more than a quarter-million customers to whom it ships more than 2,200 custom-configured systems every ...
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Plastics group Linpac Packaging has laid out a raft of investment plans in its European business for 2013 after its US sister company Ropak was sold in a $265m (£163m) deal Ropak Packaging was, earlier this month, sold to metal ...
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Leading glass processor, distributor and installer GLASSOLUTIONS – the company formerly known as Solaglas – has taken an important step towards greener business by formalising its environmental management systems with ISO 14001 ...
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US-based StoneRiver Risk and Compliance (SRC) has closed the acquisition of Compliance Assurance Corporation (CAC), as part of a strategy to expand its compliance and risk management solutions for the insurance industry. SRC provides ...
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BEIJING — December 5, 2012 — A new survey released today by DuPont revealed a growing understanding of green products among urban Chinese consumers. Seventy percent of these consumers expressed confidence in the environmental ...
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The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Engro Foods are implementing a project to install 60 milk chillers in remote villages in Pakistan, as a part of a strategy to increase incomes of small dairy farms. The USAID-funded ...
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WELSH Secretary David Jones has been challenged to join the fight to defend the Welsh steel industry in the wake of the devastating job losses in Port Talbot. Aberavon MP Hywel Francis said the Welsh Office should follow the lead of the ...
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Chemicals company Tessenderlo Group has announced that its plans to sell Profialis, its continental European PVC profile business, to investment firm Open Gate Capital, for an undisclosed sum. Belgium-based company said staff at Los ...
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TORONTO -- Canadian retailer The Hudson's Bay Co. will return to the stock market with an initial public offering of shares planned in the next few months, according to documents filed with securities regulators. HBC was last traded on ...
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