Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group (JLT) has inked an agreement to acquire Towers Watson's (TW) reinsurance brokerage business, in a cash transaction valued at approximately $250m. The acquisition is part of JLT's strategy to establish global ...
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Linde AG has been listed again in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index. The analysts at RobecoSAM have thereby acknowledged the continuous improvement in the sustainability performance of the technology group. RobecoSAM is an ...
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Presenting a record number of exhibitors, and the most comprehensive seminar program to date, the Australian International Sourcing Fair (AISF) will unite manufacturers and wholesalers over an action packed three days from November 13-15, ...
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has agreed to sell its nutritional drinks brands – the iconic Lucozade and Ribena – to the Japanese consumer goods firm Suntory Beverage & Food (SBF) for £1.35bn in cash. GlaxoSmithKline is to sell ...
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Researchers from University of Wisconsin-Madison and Drexel University are pursuing the building blocks for a rich set of computational tools that would allow manufacturers to account for the material complexity of a sophisticated product ...
Canada's newest union—Unifor—has elected Jerry Dias as its first national president. Dias had been assistant to the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) national president since 2007. The Unifor founding convention got underway this ...
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Unity Technologies is working on adding the ability to simplify 2D game creation using its cross-platform development tools, and has also worked with Facebook to make it easier for users to integrate Facebook in their games, the company ...
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In afternoon, July 30th, publication meeting of Baosteel Group 2012 corporate social responsibility report, and global initial launch ceremony of 3rd generation high-strength automotive steel were held in Baosteel Tower. The event took you ...
In the three years following a cartel breakdown, the number of mergers is significantly higher than in the three years preceding the collapse. A recent study conducted by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim has ...
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The improved offer came after talks in Leeds that finished in the early hours of the morning (Friday 9 August) between Unite, the country's largest union, the GMB union and the management under the auspices of the conciliation service Acas. ...
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Like Design by ARK The Toronto based architecture firm ARK has been awarded recognition and prizes for their Uja Federation Community Complex. The complex has been designed to unite and create synergies between a broad array of community ...
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This season’s PREMIUM ORDER DÜSSELDORF (POD) once again achieved positive results with attendance figures matching last year’s levels and a steady flow of visitors with peaks on Sunday and Monday. Anita Tillmann: ...
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Strike action has been averted at Molson Coors' Burton-on-Trent brewery in an eleventh hour pay deal, with union Unite claiming victory for spearheading the campaign. Workers had previously voted by 97% in favour of a strike at the ...
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After a decade of operating in the United States as Comfort Solutions, the Top 10 bedding producer is returning to its founding name and corporate brand King Koil on a worldwide basis. The producer said the "important strategic step" will ...
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Software giant Oracle and cloud CRM company Salesforce.com will announce a new alliance next week that will see the two companies "unite" their respective clouds. "Larry and I both agree we need to unite our clouds," said Marc Benioff, ...