Nestle has dismissed suggestions its days of "easy gains" in emerging markets are over as the group recorded what one analyst described as "sustained weakness" in Asia, Oceania and Africa. The Swiss food giant this morning (14 February) ...
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This year's Nuremberg International Toy Fair attracted 73,500 traders and buyers from 113 countries. Although slightly down on 2012's figures - which stood at 76,55 - exhibitors remain impressed with the event, with 91.3 per cent of them ...
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Microsoft's highly anticipated Surface Pro with Windows 8 will be on sale Saturday starting at $899 and will test the company's viability in the tablet market after the failure of the Surface RT. The Surface Pro tablet has an Intel Core ...
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PMMI, the owner and producer of the EXPO PACK and PACK EXPO family of trade shows, has announced the premiere edition of EXPO PACK Guadalajara (Feb.27 –March 1, 2013; Expo Guadalajara) has sold out. “In December, we were happy ...
UK - On February 11 2013, ConcertSound Clair changes its trading name to Clair UK. One of Britain's first-generation live audio service operations, the company was founded in 1977 as Concert Sound Limited. The firm evolved from the break-up ...
PUMA reported results for the fourth quarter and full year. 2012 Fourth Quarter Highlights •PUMA's consolidated sales climb by 11.7% in Euro terms to € 804.7 million. •Gross profit margin declines to 44.6% due to ...
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Italy-based packaging equipment provider Industrial Machine Automation (IMA) has entered into an agreement to acquire 40% stake in Transworld Packaging's subsidiary ILAPAK, which offers manufactures packaging machines for the food industry. ...
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University of Notre Dame (UND) in the USA and epiwafer maker IQE have claimed record-breaking balanced frequency performance for a nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) using indium aluminium gallium nitride ...
Switzerland-based packaging firm Ball is set to cease production at its food and aerosol packaging manufacturing facility in Elgin, Illinois, US in December 2013. The Elgin plant produces aerosol and specialty steel cans, flat steel sheet ...
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Flisom AG of Duebendorf, Zurich, which was spun off from the Laboratory of Solid State Physics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) in 2005 to develop technologies for industrial roll-to-roll manufacturing of ...
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Membrane specialist and Degrémont SA subsidiary Aquasource has appointed Marc Messerli as its new chief operating officer (COO). Messerli, 37, has served as an industrial manager within a number of large companies, most notably at ...
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German carmaker Audi has unveiled the new S3 Sportback ahead of its global debut at the upcoming 2013 Geneva motor show to be held during 05 March to 17 March 2013 in Switzerland. The new hatchback is powered by enhanced four-cylinder 2.0 ...
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The yarn business is without doubt the cornerstone of all fabric-forming activities. The construction of any yarn determines to a large extent the appearance and surface of every fashionable fabric. Old Tradition Fashionable ...
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Italy-based Miroglio Textile S.r.l. has unveiled a textile printing platform that combines state-of-the-art technology with environmental responsibility and expanded creative service. E.Volution utilizes the latest-generation digital ...
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German carmaker Volkswagen has unveiled the new Cross up! prior to its global debut at the upcoming Geneva motor show to be held in Switzerland during 05-17 March 2013. The five-door hatchback is powered by a 1.0L three-cylinder petrol ...
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