The two-day international conference on low-carbon solutions for the textile industry in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies held in Taipei, Taiwan, saw several consensus being reached by the APEC members for green solutions ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Textile
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division), has finalised the ZAR 1,000,000,000(more than $100m) solar ...
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Hoping to keep its stock price above $1 per share and preserve its New York Stock Exchange listing, Furniture Brands International is asking shareholders to approve a reverse stock split. Shareholders were notified in a recent proxy ...
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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced the approval of a loan of up to $4 million to help Willbes HA, a subsidiary of The Willbes & Co Ltd, headquartered in Cheonan, Republic of Korea, to expand its existing ready-made garment ...
Tags: IDB, garment sector, garment
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) is intending to dispose of 15.3% shares in its motor insurance startup, to boost its capital base ahead of regulators’ deadline. Representing nearly 229.4 million shares, the share sale will be ...
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In a move that is likely to mark the start of a new era for the Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX), National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) has begun offering custody services for ISX-listed shares through its 80%-held subsidiary Credit Bank of Iraq. This is ...
Tags: NBK, Custody Breakthrough, ISX
In a new report on plastics & packaging mergers and acquisitions (M&A) over a twelve year period from 2001-2012, Blaige & Company has identified four consolidation mega-trends associated with the plastics industry: Globalization Driving ...
Facebook scored an initial legal victory in its IPO case following a federal judge's dismissal of a group of investor lawsuits filed against the company. More than 30 lawsuits were filed against Facebook after it went public last May, ...
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Rather than trying to hinder the high-frequency traders by taxing the buy and sell orders they place and withdraw in milliseconds every day, the Industry Super Network proposes a new trading model with a series of auctions through the day ...
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Bluefield Partners LLP, the London based solar energy investment manager, backed by Jon Moulton has announced the acquisition of one of the largest solar arrays on an industrial site in the UK. Built on Toyota’s vehicle ...
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Asiacell’s share sale has been fully subscribed before its closing date, according to the IPO’s organizer. Shwan Ibrahim Taha, chairman of Rabee Securities, confirmed to Bloomberg News: “The offering is now comfortably ...
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On January 21, Gansu Province-based Chinese steelmaker Jiuquan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd (JISCO) announced that it plans to issue short-term bonds worth RMB 1 billion ($160 million) on January 28, with the approval of China’s National ...
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The idea that broadband projects face a struggle to find finance is a myth, according to the director general of non-profit organisation FTTH Council Europe, Hartwig Tauber. "Because of the financial crisis, people say there is no money ...
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UK-based IGas Energy has successfully completed a share placing announced earlier Tuesday. A total of 24,330,730 new ordinary shares were sold at the placing price of GBP0.95 ($1.52) with new and existing institutional investors, it said in ...
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China Food Co, the leading Chinese manufacturer of cooking and dipping sauces, has parted ways with one of its "major" shareholders. China Food Co said today (16 January) that Hana Mulsan Co has sold its entire 12.3% stake in the firm, ...
Tags: China Food Co, cooking, dipping sauces, shareholders