British agribusiness Sundrop Farms has secured $100m in investment from private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co ( KKR ) to ramp up vegetable production. The investment will be used in the expansion of Sundrop Farms' greenhouse ...
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US-based food manufacturing company Kellogg's has raised its offer to acquire Egyptian cake and biscuit maker Bisco Misr to £82.2 per share. Kellogg's new offer overtakes Abraaj Investment Management's latest offer of ...
Tags: Egyptian cake, biscuit, Agriculture
Abraaj Investment Management has raised its offer to acquire Egyptian cake and biscuit maker Bisco Misr to $129.6m. The move comes after breakfast cereal maker Kellogg's offered $127.06m for the biscuit producer, Reuters reported. ...
Tags: cake, biscuit, Agriculture
Nellson Nutraceutical has agreed to acquire Canadian nutritional and snack bars producer Le Groupe Multibar for an undisclosed amount. An agreement to this effect was signed between both the companies. The transaction, which is ...
Breakfast cereal producer Kellogg plans to acquire a majority stake in Egyptian confectionery-maker Bisco Misr for an undisclosed amount. The company is eyeing around 51% stake in Bisco Misr, following a due diligence. Bisco Misr, ...
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Greenville Colorants (GC) has appointed Howard Printz President of its’ newly formed Global Carpet and Textile Division. Greenville Colorants has been active in textile dyes since the early 1950s having acquired several companies ...
Jing Jin, Wei Dong, and Yong Liang, who co-authored a paper on “Determination of Acrylamide in Textiles by GC-MS using 13C3-labeled Acrylamide as Internal Standard” published in the January/February 2013 issue of AATCC Review, ...
Tags: Peer Review Paper, Textile
FSC-certified wood is wood that is certified under the standards set by FSC or the Forest Stewardship Council. FSC-certification is given to companies and landowners to verify that they practice forestry that is consistent with FSC ...
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GC Rieber Shipping has taken delivery of its new advanced subsea newbuild "Polar Onyx" from Ulstein Verft. The vessel is chartered on a five-year contract by Ceona Services (UK) Limited, who will use it for advanced deep-water operations ...
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JVC recently announced a series of promotional activities planned to support its lines of “quad-proof” (water, shock, dust, cold) Adixxion and Everio camcorders. Promotional activities will include a partnership with K2 ...
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DQS has certified Symrise as a 'Green Company'. Independent DQS auditors have assessed the internal processes in research, development, manufacturing and sales concluding that Symrise fulfills the international requirements of the Global ...
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Roche NimbleGen and Kapa Biosystems have announced a partnership to provide an optimized next-generation sequencing (NGS) target enrichment workflow solution. Kapa Biosystems will custom manufacture NGS library preparation products for ...
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Ceona's high-capacity flexible/umbilical pipelay and subsea construction vessel, the Polar Onyx, has been floated out of dry dock at Ulstein Verft yard in Norway following an intensive outfitting programme. It has now moved to the shipyard ...
Tags: transportation
GC Rieber Shipping - contract update for "Polar King" Monday, Nov 18, 2013 The subsea service company Reef Subsea has today exercised its option to extend the charter party for the subsea vessel "Polar King" with nine months. This extends ...
Tags: GC Rieber Shipping, contract, update, Polar King
The Mitsubishi AR concept has been unveiled at the Tokyo motor show, previewing a flexible plug-in hybrid people-mover. Touted as a compact MPV with the manoeuvrability of an SUV, the Mitsubishi AR concept promises seating for up to six ...
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