The Drives & Motion Division of Yaskawa America, Inc. is pleased to announce that Yaskawa Electric Corporation has signed an agreement between its European subsidiary, YASKAWA Europe GmbH (YEU) based in Eschborn, Germany, and VIPA ...
The shareholders of the Finnish group Ahlstrom voted in favour of the planned spin-off of its Label & Processing division's European activities and the sale of LP's Coated Specialities in Brazil at an extraordinary general meeting held on ...
Tags: Label&Processing, pulp, specialty paper
Investment AB Kinnevik has received regulatory approval for its previously announced agreement to sell its Korsnas packaging operations to Billerud for SEK2.7bn ($406m), to form a merged group called BillerudKorsnas. According to the ...
Tags: investment, paper machine, white kraft, sack paper
Financially-troubled paper company Paperlinx has sold its US paper businesses Spicers Paper and Kelly Paper for US$76 million. Both divisions have been acquired by Central National-Gottesman (CNG), which owns the complementary Lindenmeyr ...
At Rautaruukki's Capital Markets Day hosted in Helsinki, the company's management will present their review of the sector and shed light particularly on business opportunities in Russia. With the Fortaco arrangement, Ruukki will in future ...
The companies make and distribute polystyrene(PS)foam trays and polypropylene(PP)rigid trays.These products are widely used for packaging food–such as fish,meat or cheese–in the retail sector. The EC said that these firms ...
Tags: EC, PS foam trays, PP rigid trays, EU antitrust rules
Norwegian industrial conglomerate Orkla has entered into an agreement to acquire family-controlled food company Rieber&Soen,by committing to buy 90.11%shares held by the Rieber family,in a deal which values the company at ...
Tags: acquisition, shares, debt-free basis
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has fined Google $22.5m for monitoring Apple Safari browser users even though they had a "do not track" privacy setting selected. The fine is the largest to date to be imposed by the FTC on a single ...
Tags: Google, Apple Safari browser, browser, Safari browser
Google and the European Commission have agreed the outlines of a settlement to end a two-year investigation into the internet firm's alleged abuse of its dominant position in the search market. The news comes a week after Google submitted ...
Tags: Google, European Commission, search engine, computers, tablets
Google has submitted several proposals in response to concerns by European competition authorities in an attempt to avoid punitive fines. In May, competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia set a July deadline for Google to respond to four ...
Tags: Google, proposals, competition authorities
Dairy Crest has received a binding offer for its French branded spread business St Hubert from Montagu Private Equity. Montagu,one of the firms originally reported to have shown an interest in acquiring the firm,is offering a ...
Tags: debt, St Hubert, acquisition, shareholders
The Spanish company will join Philips' Professional Luminaires business and add to its capabilities to offer LED outdoor lighting. Philips has unveiled the latest in a series of acquisitions that have helped build the company's ...
Tags: outdoor light