Amazon has just announced the Echo Show, which will enable video calling through a dedicated touchscreen, but that doesn’t mean owners of previous generation Echo units are missing out on a little communication. On Tuesday, the firm ...
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Cascades, a leader in the recycling and manufacturing of green packaging and tissue paper products, has announced the arrival of Cascades EVOK on the American market. These are the first polystyrene foam trays which contains a minimum of ...
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Parmalat has acquired two American dairy producers for an undisclosed price. With this transaction, the Parmalat Group acquires an important business active in the ethnic specialties segment in the United States, increasing its current ...
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US-based Imperial Bag & Paper has acquired Florida-based Peninsular Paper Products for an undisclosed sum. It is the ninth acquisition under the leadership of Imperial CEO and President Robert Tillis and Jason Tillis, respectively. Both ...
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Packaging Corporation of America has reported first quarter 2017 net income of $117m or $1.24 per share and $1.27 per share excluding special items. First quarter net sales were $1.5 billion in 2017 and $1.4 billion in 2016. Reported ...
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Almost one in two Nintendo Switch owners in the US bought Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on Friday. The Japanese gaming giant says a whopping 459,000 copies (physical and digital) were sold in the United States on the first day of release, making it ...
ICSH Parent, the parent company of Industrial Container Services, has announced that it has been acquired by funds advised by Centerbridge Partners, a leading private investment firm. Prior to this transaction, ICS was owned by affiliates ...
Moosehead Breweries, which is considered to be Canada's oldest independent beer firm, is celebrating its 150 years of family brewing. When Susannah Oland opened the Army and Navy Brewery in 1867, she hoped to create a business that could ...
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We already know the Nintendo Switch has proved popular with fans, with the company previously revealing it to have racked up its best-ever opening weekend sales for a Nintendo console in North America. And it seems the popularity of ...
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Volkswagen's subsidiary Porsche announced that it will showcase four of its vehicles at the New York International Auto Show this year. Four different versions are available to order in the U.S.: Panamera 4, Panamera 4S, Panamera 4 ...
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Ford has unveiled the second of 13 new electrified vehicles the company plans to introduce in the next five years. The industry’s first pursuit-rated hybrid police car, the all-new Ford Police Responder Hybrid Sedan, is part of a ...
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Constellium has installed a new recycling furnace at its Muscle Shoals, Alabama facility to expand recycling capabilities in North America. The now fully operational furnace is expected to increase the total recycling output by 170 ...
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Spirits-marketer Castle Brands has acquired an additional 20.1% stake in Gosling-Castle Partners, a global export venture with the Gosling family. GCP holds the exclusive long-term export and distribution rights for Goslings Rum and ...
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Danone has agreed to divest one of its US dairy subsidiaries, Stonyfield, to secure approval from US antitrust authorities for its $10bn acquisition of soy-milk maker WhiteWave Foods. The French dairy giant has reached an agreement in ...
Apple could be ready to dust off its production line so that the a new iPad Pro can be unveiled as early as next month. Coming hot on the heels of the recent iPad Air refresh, IHS Analyst Rhoda Alexander reports (H/T MacRumours) that ...