The firm was eyed by Rubie’s for its ‘independent and profitable business model’ with ‘considerable potential for further growth.’ Fancy dress specialist Rubie’s Masquerade has acquired the family-owned ...
Abraaj Investment Management has raised its offer to acquire Egyptian cake and biscuit maker Bisco Misr to $129.6m. The move comes after breakfast cereal maker Kellogg's offered $127.06m for the biscuit producer, Reuters reported. ...
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Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and City of San Jose will celebrate the city’s successful food-waste-to-energy program at a tour of the nation’s first large-scale commercial anaerobic digestion facility, ...
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Finland-based packaging company Huhtamaki will be selling its films business to German private equity company Deutsche Beteiligungs for $175m (€141m). Huhtamaki is known for supplying paper cups to McDonald's. The company stated ...
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Castle Brands, a developer and international marketer of premium and super-premium branded spirits, today reported financial results for the three and six month periods ended 30 September 2014. Operating highlights for the quarter ended ...
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Smartwatches are here to stay it seems, with latest reports suggesting LG will launch its first 4G enabled wearable at MWC 2015. With the company having recently backed up the LG G Watch with the round-faced G Watch R, claimed ...
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John Lewis today revealed its 2014 Christmas advertising campaign, which evokes the magic of make-believe at Christmas through a child’s eyes. Set to the track 'Real Love', sung by Tom Odell and originally written and recorded by ...
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Researchers based in Singapore and Turkey have been developing a hole accelerator structure with a view to improving the performance of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Zi-Hui Zhang et al, Appl. ...
Tags: Nitride LEDs, InGaN
Modell’s Sporting Goods, celebrating its 125 year anniversary, will hold a grand opening for its newest location at 1019 Montauk Highway in Shirley, Long Island, bringing their total to 157 storefronts. The Southport Shopping Center ...
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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden have designed a microwave circuit that has set a record transmission rate of 40Gb/s for an operating frequency of 140GHz (presented in the session ‘Breaking News ...
International credit rating agency Standard & Poor's Ratings (S&P) has announced that a potential sale by Indian steelmaker Tata Steel of its European long steel products business and associated distribution activities is credit positive ...
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Tesla has unveiled ‘D’ car, a higher version of its Model S car, where the D stands for dual motor. The new car will have all-wheel drive system and will be able to accelerate from 0-60 mph in 3.2 seconds, and reach top speed ...
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Kerry Foods has entered into the frozen vegetables and accompaniments category, with the addition of new products named, Paxo and Sharwood’s. The new Paxo Stuffing Balls from PAxo brand can be prepared in the microwave in just one ...
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M&J Group, one of the leading high-quality garment manufacturers in Bangladesh, producing a wide range of top quality denim bottoms and some non-denim products, presented a new revolutionary technology 'Start to Measure', to assess the ...
Google has lengthened its leap into medtech by acquiring Lift Labs, a San Francisco startup that makes a spoon to help prevent patients with movement disorders from spilling their food. The Internet giant will fold Lift Labs into Google ...
Tags: movement disorders, spoon