SkyeTek, Inc., the leader in embedded RFID reader modules, announced its plans to launch its inventory and asset management software platform, MetaFi. "I'm excited to have this software suite, to offer a solution to our current customers ...
Tags: Skyetek, RFID Solution, Textile
Irn Bru maker AG Barr is remaining tight-lipped about press reports that it is preparing a £1bn bid for Glaxo Smith Kline’s iconic drink brands Ribena and Lucozade, in the wake of its failed merger bid with Britvic. He ...
Tags: Glaxo Smith Kline, Failed merger deal, AG Barr, Ribena, Lucozade
Aston Capital, a limited partnership private equity firm, yesterday announced the formation of LightCap I Fund to finance LED lighting purchases and installations for Revolution Lighting Technologies customers. LightCap I Fund will now ...
Carl Prindle Schottenstein Stores and Rooms To Go have taken an ownership stake in online retailer Furniture.com, which will relaunch later this year, backed by a network of large retailers across the country handling fulfillment. ...
Tags: Furniture, Stores, Furnishing
Private equity firm India Value Fund Advisors (IVFA) has agreed to invest $40m in India-based ingredients firm Vallabhdas Kanji (VKL Seasoning) to support the next phase of growth of ingredient firm as it makes transition as a value-added ...
Texas-based private-equity firm TPG Capital is said to be considering signing an agreement to acquire Envision Pharmaceutical Holdings, an Ohio-based pharmacy-benefits manager (PBM), for an undisclosed sum. Sources familiar with the ...
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Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, Temasek, made net investments of S$4 billion ($3.16 billion) in its energy and resources portfolio in the year to March 31, the fund said Thursday. The new investments included acquiring an additional 5% ...
US-based Moog has completed the sale of its Buffalo, New York operations of Ethox Medical to Dempsey Ventures. The annual sales from this division are approximately $12m. Ethox Buffalo has 88 full-time employees. There is an after-tax ...
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Despite margin compression resulting from feedstock price increases over the first quarter, Great American Group, analysts note that the overall textiles industry continues to make progress after bottoming out in 2009. “Many ...
US-based private equity firm Arbor Investments has completed the acquisition of Keyes Packaging for an undisclosed amount. Keyes, headquartered in Wenatchee, Washington, is a provider of protective molded fiber and tissue wrap packaging ...
Tags: Food Packaging, Agriculture
Global pharma companies Sanofi, Novartis and GSK are competing to acquire the domestic formulations business of debt-burdening Elder Pharmaceuticals. People familiar with the matter were quoted by media sources as saying that Sanofi and ...
Tags: Domestic Formulations, Medicine
Billionaire Carl Icahn is approaching investors for$5.2bn in loans to back an alternative bid to buy out ailing PC maker Dell. Icahn,who will become Dell's largest external investor if Southeastern sell him about$1bn of its Dell shares,is ...
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Mystery surrounds recent reports that Premier Foods has sold £100M worth of its debt to US private equity house Apollo Global Management. Premier Foods brands include Hovis, Mr Kipling and Ambrosia The story originated from US ...
Abraaj Group, a Dubai-based private equity firm, has agreed to acquire Danish Fan Milk International from the Emborg family from Aalborg together with the private equity fund Maj Invest Equity and the management. Fan Milk International ...
Tags: Abraaj, Milk, Agriculture&Food
Concerns about the global economy and political unrest in Canberra are cruelling appetite for takeovers, with some of the nation's top dealmakers tipping companies to remain on the sidelines until economic clouds clear. In a sign of the ...