Dawn McElfresh, Builder Channel Marketing Manager, AFP, accepted the award on behalf of Armstrong, with Frank Anton, Hanley-Wood. Armstrong World Industries has won the Gold award for Excellence in Marketing in Hanley Wood's 1st Annual ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
US-based life insurer MetLife has received regulatory approval from Myanmar's Directorate of Investment and Company Administration to set up a representative office in the country. The company will now concentrate on completing the ...
US-based life insurer MetLife has finalized acquisition of a 64.3% stake of Chilean pension fund administrator, AFP Provida from Spanish bank BBVA, in a deal worth approximately $1.54bn. From the sale of AFP, the Spanish bank received ...
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ICE October Brent dipped to its lowest level in a week then settled $2.40 lower at $113.72/barrel Monday, while NYMEX crude also fell as uncertainty over a potential US strike against Syria remained. In after-hours trade, October Brent ...
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China's exports rose 7.2 percent year on year to US$190.73 billion in August, 2.1 percentage points higher than the 5.1 percent increase in July, the General Administration of Customs announced Sunday. Expanding exports signals that the ...
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MetLife Chile Acquisition, a subsidiary of MetLife, is planning to acquire all the issued and outstanding common shares held by US holders and American depositary shares of AFP Provida for $6.14 and $92.21 per share in cash respectively. ...
Tags: MetLife Chile, Service
China blocked 42 tons of Fonterra's whole milk powder from entering the country in May after checks at the border found excess levels of nitrites and it was sent back to New Zealand, the scandal-hit dairy giant confirmed Thursday. ...
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General Motors has shut down its headquarters and vehicle production plant in Egypt indefinitely as violence in the troubled nation increases. More than 500 people were killed in Cairo on Wednesday when fighting erupted at protest ...
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NYMEX August crude settled $1.43 higher at $97.99/barrel Monday on Middle East tensions and as better-than-expected manufacturing data from Europe helped boost US equities. NYMEX's rise outpaced ICE August Brent's 84-cent gain to $103/b, ...
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Crude oil futures settled slightly higher Tuesday as a pipeline shutdown in Alberta, Canada, and escalating tensions in the Middle East lent the complex a bullish note, amid rising equities markets. NYMEX August crude settled 14 cents ...
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Facebook said the problem was tied to its Download Your Information tool. Source: AFP Facebook says a bug in its system caused six million users' contact information to be inadvertently exposed. The social media company said the bug led ...
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Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop (R) stands with Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, during the launch of a new Nokia Lumia phone. Source: AFP Microsoft was in talks to boost its position in the mobile phone market by buying ...
Oil futures accelerated a bullish climb shortly ahead of the 2:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT) NYMEX market settle to close Thursday sharply higher amid rising equities and a weaker dollar. ICE July Brent expired up 76 cents at $104.25/b, after ...
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Australian manufacturing and distribution company Pro-Pac Packaging has completed the acquisition of the business and assets of Australian Flexographic Printers (AFP) and Poly Products (PPC). According to Pro-Pac, Sydney-based flexo ...
Polish chemical producer Synthos has begun an emergency shutdown of all units at its petrochemical complex in Kralupy, Czech Republic due to extreme flooding by the Vltava river, a company source said Monday. "We are closing production of ...
Tags: Petrochemical, Vltava Floods