The owners of high-end e-commerce retailer DecadentAvenue.com will open a 25,000-square-foot store here with an expanded assortment of upper middle and high-end lines. The Memphis-based online retailer's first bricks-and-mortar store will ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Kingstree, S.C.-based Palmetto Synthetics LLC — a manufacturer of polyester, nylon, and other specialty man-made staple fibers for apparel, automotive and industrial applications — will invest $1.1 million to expand its ...
San Francisco-based private equity investment firm Hellman & Friedman has acquired Chicago-based insurance brokerage firm, Hub International, from Apax Partners, in a transaction worth approximately $4.4bn. Commenting on the transaction, ...
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Shuanghui International has acquired a US pork processor Smithfield Foods in an all-cash deal valued at $7.1bn, which includes the assumption of net debt. The deal received approval from Smithfield's shareholders at a special meeting held ...
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eHealth, an online private health insurance exchange, has selected and inked a contract to integrate Intuit’s TurboTax (INTU), with its online health insurance comparison and enrollment tools. Following completion of the ...
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Grupo Lala, a Mexican dairy company, has announced plans to launch an initial public offering (IPO) to strengthen its distribution operations and prepay bank loans. The company also plans to use the proceeds to pursue acquisition of ...
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This dramatic, illuminated half orb is composed of more than 7,000 recycled plastic bottles and is lit from within by LED lamps. The sculpture, in Hong Kong's Victoria Park, forms the centrepiece of the mid-autumn festival in the city, ...
BlackBerry has announced its fourth new BlackBerry 10-based smartphone of the year with the Z30, a five-inch screen device that will become the company's flagship smartphone. The OLED touchscreen will offer a resolution of 1,280 by 768 - ...
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Taiwan LED wafer manufacturer Epistar announced more good news for its market layout in LED lighting. According to a report by global financial service firm Morgan and Stanley, Epistar's infiltration into CREE's supply chain, controlling ...
Guardian Life Insurance, a mutual life insurer and a provider of employee benefits, has appointed Caitlin Pincus as senior vice president of Strategy & Guardian Labs and Dean Del Vecchio as senior vice president and chief information ...
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American Family Insurance has inked an acquisition agreement to purchase direct homeowners insurer Homesite Group for approximately $616m. Headquartered in Boston, Homesite is a direct writer of homeowners, renters and condominium ...
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Hartung Glass Industries and the Glass Association of North America (GANA) have announced that Hartung Glass Industries is sponsoring a private tour of the Museum of Glass during the GANA NW Roundtable event in Tacoma, Wash. on October 15. ...
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Investment bank Morgan Stanley is delaying a planned upgrade of its BlackBerry smartphones because of fears about the Canadian firm's ability to support the latest BlackBerry 10 platform over the long term, according to Bloomberg. Two ...
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Despite a new oil product pricing mechanism introduced by the central government in March, China's state refiners continued to suffer in the downstream in the second quarter because of poor domestic demand, their interim results showed. ...
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For centuries, trading with raw material has been an integral part of economic life. Stock exchanges started everywhere and eventually developed into the stock exchanges that exist today, dealing with shares, too. The first stock exchange ...
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