Multinational dairy co-operative Fonterra plans to close its century-old Cororooke facility,near Colac in south-west Victoria,Australia,by June 2013 as it is too expensive to be upgraded. The closure will be carried out in a phased manner ...
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Indian IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services(TCS)is to be awarded a contract to support the government's Disclosure and Barring Service(DBS),according to the Public and Commercial Services Union. The DBS has resulted from the coming ...
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From a position of strength the Otto Group is investing in the further development of the OTTO,Baur and Schwab brands with its future-orientated Project FOKUS.The current status of the project shows clearly what shape the future brand ...
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Public services providers Amey has acquired 100 per cent equity in independent connections provider Nationwide Distribution Services (NDS). NDS is one of the few firms to be granted permission to use DNOs live low voltage (LV) ...
GREENandSAVE is pleased to provide sector Trend Reports to monitor the temperature of different CleanTech market segments.The LED tube lighting industry is heating up,and this High Performance LED Tube Report is just one more example of the ...
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HP has confirmed it is writing off about$8bn after the drop in value of EDS,as the result of internal decisions combined with the global economic climate. Earlier this month Hewlett-Packard(HP)warned that it would write off$8bn after the ...
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Sony is cutting 1,000 jobs in its mobile division as it moves the business closer to its headquarters in Japan. The decision comes as a result of Sony buying a 50%share in the division from its mobile business partner,Ericsson,in February ...
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Google is to lay off 20%of the Motorola Mobility workforce with 4,000 redundancies worldwide,two-thirds of that number coming from outside the US. The company said it intends to ditch its standard phones as part of the move."Motorola ...
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Software provider SAP expects a strong second quarter, with revenues up 18% on last year to €3.9bn (£3bn) for the three months to June and operating profits increasing by EURO920,00, a 7% increase. In its preliminary results ...
Struggling Dutch meat firm Vion has announced a raft of job cuts across its European operations. In its latest set of results, the company said economic conditions and increased prices for raw materials hit the firm's profits last year. ...
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Lancaster University is using automation technology to comply with tighter UK Border Authority immigration checks. The system is providing record keeping and information cross-checking for oversees students that register at the ...
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US insurers' reserve redundancy during the year 2011 was estimated to be $11.7bn, or 2% of total booked reserves compared to $22bn during the same period last fiscal. According to a research report compiled by Aon Benfield, the global ...
Italian employees of injection moulding machine company Romi Sandretto have been staging a protest at the company’s stand at the Plast 2012 exhibition taking place in Milan this week. The protests have been peaceful Around 20 ...
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Q-Cells expects revenue to bounce back in the fourth quarter after posting financial results for the third quarter that are nearly half of those reported in the prior year period. Q-Cells reported revenue for the quarter of €228.8 ...
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Q-Cells expects revenue to bounce back in the fourth quarter after posting financial results for the third quarter that are nearly half of those reported in the prior year period. Q-Cells reported revenue for the quarter of €228.8 ...
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