Philips announced it will be closing down its lighting plant in Burgaw, Pender County in North Carolina, U.S. recently, according to a report by Triangle Business Journal. The factory closure, which will become effective as of Sept. 2016, ...
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Ameresco, a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy company, and the Newport News Public Schools (NNPS) announced today they are partnering on a comprehensive $14.8 million Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) to improve ...
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US-based agribusiness Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has opened two manufacturing plants in China in order to increase its capacity to meet the growing demand in the country for value added food ingredients and animal nutrition ...
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Canadian organic food company SunOpta has completed the acquisition of Sunrise Holdings from investor group led by Paine & Partners for $444m, as part of its strategy to expand its portfolio of frozen fruit and fruit ingredient processing ...
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For fiscal 2015 (ended 27 June), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $341.3m, down 12.7% on fiscal 2014's $390.9m. This is due to a 25% ...
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Archer Daniels Midland Company and Quality Liquid Feeds have entered into a 50-50 joint venture for the production and sale of liquid feed supplements for livestock. The joint venture consists of four liquid feed production facilities ...
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Fashion firm, Yumi International Ltd, has chosen Visual End2End suite of software products by Visual 2000 International. Yumi’s commercial director, Dipak Davé, said, “We pride ourselves on innovative design and ...
According to a recent report one third of all food produced in the world ends up as waste, costing consumers globally more than £259bn per year. In addition, around 200,000 tonnes of the 15 million tonnes of food thrown away in the UK ...
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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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TreeHouse Foods has recorded first quarter earnings of $0.41 per fully diluted share when compared to $0.38 per fully diluted share reported for the first quarter of 2014. The Company reported adjusted earnings per share in the first ...
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AkzoNobel has announced plans to invest more than €20 million in its organic peroxide production facilities in Mons, Belgium, and Houston (Pasadena), Texas, in the US. In Mons, the company is introducing new technologies to increase ...
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Toy giant will move from country-by-country leadership structure to a pan-European approach to drive greater efficiencies across its European business. Toys R Us is taking ‘aggressive steps in the months ahead’ to achieve ...
Stion Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes nanostructure-based CIGS (copper indium gallium sulphur-diselenide) thin-film solar modules and provider of turnkey photovoltaic solutions, has completed a 228kW commercial rooftop solar project ...
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Famous women apparel brands Lela Rose and Protagonist have chosen the cloud-based FashionManager enterprise software solution by RLM Apparel Software Systems Inc., software solutions provider to the fashion industry’s biggest and ...
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Axalta Coating Systems chairman and CEO, Charlie Shaver, presented insights into the strategic implications of private equity in the coatings industry value chain at a meeting of industry leaders attending the global Coatings Summit in ...
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