US c-store retailer 7-Eleven has announced its latest acquisition, with a deal to buy 18 Open Pantry stores. 7-Eleven said yesterday (25 June) it has snapped up outlets that are primarily in the greater Milwaukee and Madison markets. ...
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Consumer goods conglomerate Procter&Gamble(P&G)has signed an agreement with HP to move to a cloud infrastructure. HP will be accountable for of P&G's manufacturing,procure-to-pay,order-to-cash,physical distribution and financial systems. ...
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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton,CO,USA,which manufactures lightweight thin-film photovoltaic modules based on copper indium gallium diselenide(CIGS)using flexible substrate materials,has entered into a three-way strategic joint ...
Bright Food, the Chinese food group, was full of confidence this week about the prospects for UK cereal firm Weetabix, its first investment in Europe after missing out on companies including United Biscuits and Yoplait. Elsewhere, Orkla ...
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SEL Manufacturing Ltd, which has positioned itself as an established and leading vertically integrated multi product textile manufacturing conglomerate in India, has gone live on ERP in about five and half months time since initiation of ...
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More than a century after General Electric Co. (GE) built its first research laboratory in an upstate New York barn, it’s wooing Silicon Valley engineers in a bid to connect machines the way Facebook Inc. (FB) links people. New hires ...
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Brazilian miner World Mineral Resources (WMR) has found a large reserve of neodymium, one of the 17 rare earth elements, in the western Bahia state (photo), which could bring US$8.4 billion to the country. Local newspaper Nova Fronteira ...
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W.W. Grainger Inc. is expanding further into Latin America by buying Brazilian supply company AnFreixo SA. Grainger, which sells hand tools, cleaning products and other equipment to businesses, bought the company from Brazilian industrial ...
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Grede Holdings LLC, Southfield, Mich., has acquired substantially all the assets of Virginia Casting Industries LLC, Radford, Va. Renamed Grede Radford LLC, the primarily automotive metalcasting facility becomes Grede's 17th in North ...
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Gases and engineering firm The Linde Group of Munich, Germany saysthat its joint venture Linde LienHwa (LLH) China with Taiwan’s LienHwa MiTAC Group has strengthened its commitment to LED manufacturing via an exclusive supply ...
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Gases and engineering firm The Linde Group of Munich, Germany saysthat its joint venture Linde LienHwa (LLH) China with Taiwan’s LienHwa MiTAC Group has strengthened its commitment to LED manufacturing via an exclusive supply ...
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Jaypee Cement s Rs 2, 500-crore cement plant near Jaggayyapeta in Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, will commence production next month. The plant, with a cement production capacity of five million tonnes a year, will cater mainly to ...
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Osram, glabal lighting company backed by Siemens, has announced to cut jobs in Germany for further transition to LED industry. According to Osram’s statement on Tuesday, declining volumes in the traditional lighting business due to ...
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Indian conglomerate J K Cement has launched the construction of a new cement factory in Fujairah with an investment of Dhs550m, Gulf News has reported. The plant will have a capacity of 600, 000 tonnes per annum of white cement with a ...
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Struggling solar manufacturers will likely be driven into mergers with rivals to survive a sector squeeze, a trend that could draw major Asian conglomerates deeper into the renewable energy sector. Solar makers have seen their profit ...
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