US retailer and NASDAQ listed Dollar Tree, Inc said it has completed the acquisition of Family Dollar Stores, Inc., also a retailer offering name brands and quality, private brand merchandise. The combined entity will have sales exceeding ...
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Automobile major Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has drafted $280m investment plan for funding the production of new Jeep vehicle as part of its joint venture Fiat India Automobiles, floated with Tata Motors. The amount will be for its ...
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Automobile major Ford has geared up to produce around 40,000 extra units this year by cutting down its traditional two-week summer shutdown to one for its five manufacturing units in the US. The decision comes in the wake of customer ...
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Glass container manufacturer Owens-Illinois (O-I) is buying Mexican company Vitro's food and beverage glass container business for around $2.15bn, to gain a competitive position in the Mexican glass packaging market. O-I will acquire ...
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Global energy drinks company Red Bull has seen its profits in Australia drop for the third year in a row. Red Bull has battled to keep its top place in the Australian market, with strong competition from energy drink V, which is owned by ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized Philips, the global leader in lighting, with a 2015 ENERGY STAR (ES) Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award for the company’s continued leadership in ...
Hoka One One, a division of Deckers Brands, added six new triathletes to its growing roster of pros. The athletes include former Ironman world champion Leanda Cave, Danielle Mack, Lauren Goss, Josh Amberger, Kevin Collington and Drew Scott. ...
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Nathan Sports is once again partnering with select run-specialty retailers nationwide, on the brand's 2015 spring hydration campaign, “We Run on Water.” The campaign kicked off Friday, Mar. 20 the first ...
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Graff's Ameties Ring was announced recently as a finalist for the 2015 architizer A+ Awards in the product +Bath – Fixtures and Fittings Category. Now in this third year, The Architizer, A+ Awards are the definitive global ...
Zurich, Switzerland, March 18, 2015 – ABB, the power and automation technology group, has been named by the Ethisphere Institute, an independent research center promoting best practices in corporate ethics and governance, to its 2015 ...
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UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has cut duty on spirits and cider by 2% and froze duty on wine and slashed the price of beer by a penny a pint for the third year now. In the budget speech presented in the House of ...
Gildan has signed on as the title sponsor of Esprit de She The Spirit of Her Race Series, the premiere athletic event series for women run by Life Time Fitness. Since its inception in 2013, more than 25,000 women ranging in age from 5 to ...
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Centric Software, Inc. which offers product lifecycle management (PLM) software for retail said it set record-setting growth in bookings, customers and geographic expansion in fiscal ending January 31, 2015. “Centric has earned its ...
Despite smaller plantings, U.S. farmers will harvest the second-largest soybean crop and third-largest corn crops this fall, the Agriculture Department projected, with high demand whittling down the corn stockpile by 8 percent but soybean ...
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Akzo Nobel N.V. has reported positive volume growth and an improvement in return on sales (ROS) for the full-year 2014. Excluding incidentals, ROS was 7.5 percent (2013: 6.1 percent). Operating income excluding incidentals grew 20 percent ...
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