The global packaging giant posted its results for the year ended 30 June 2012 this morning (21 August). It said that it had achieved record profit after tax of $634.9m, up 11.3%, compared to the same period last year. It also announced ...
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Virgin Media has announced sales of just under £1.03bn for the third quarter of 2012, despite issues in its mobile division. The figure was a 2.8% rise compared to the £1bn it recorded in the same period last year, whilst ...
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Former schools minister Andrew Adonis has rallied against the failure of small businesses to take on school leavers for apprenticeships and work experience. Speaking to an audience of small business owners, Adonis said it was too easy for ...
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Kraft Foods is launching Cadbury Crispello in the UK in order to woo women who have cut down on chocolate bars. The company will support Cadbury Crispello, the UK subsidiary's first countline since the 1990s, with a GBP7m (US$11.3m) ...
Tags: Kraft Foods, chocolate bars, chocolate, creamy, wafer, dairy
For first-half 2012,Riber S.A.of Bezons,France,which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy(MBE)systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells,has reported gross profit(before changes in provisions for inventories)of€3m(gross ...
A surge in UK high-tech investment this year is reported by Ascendant, the technology focussed investment company. In the first half of the year nearly 600m was invested in technology firms compared to the786m invested for the whole of ...
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Free-space laser comms to boost Marines'bandwidth 11 Sep 2012 US Navy awards$7M contract for ITT Exelis and Novasol to build a line-of-sight system to handle escalating data needs. Intelligence,surveillance and reconnaissance:data crunch ...
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For second-quarter 2012,Kopin Corp of Taunton,MA,USA,a supplier of III-V semiconductor products and microdisplays for mobile applications(including smartphones,tablet PCs,military thermal weapons sights and wearable computers),has reported ...
South African CIGS spin-off PTIP orders €7m of equipment from partner Singulus Singulus Technolgies AG of Kahl am Main, Germany, which makes production equipment for the Optical Disc and Solar sectors, says that Photovoltaic ...
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London Olympic Games has grandly opened on 27, July. And visitors may have a great impression on the wonderful LEDs which dresses up the host city. Now, let's go and look at gloriously views. GE LEDs Light up London's Tower Bridge GE, ...
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02 Aug 2012 German company will lead a new effort to shrink extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography resolution from 20nm to 14nm. EUV optics The optics giant Carl Zeiss is to lead a new project to improve the resolution of extreme ...
Tags: Zeiss, 7M, EUV optics project, 02 Aug 2012, from 20nm to 14nm
University of Strathclyde micro-LED spin-out mLED has secured £378,000 of growth cash, adding to £150,000 seed funding it received in June 2010. Lead by Braveheart Investment Group, the round came from Braveheart's ...
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Scotland-based Braveheart Investment Group plc has announced a further investment in micro light-emitting diode company mLED Ltd of Glasgow, UK. mLED’s proprietary microLED platform technology was developed over a 10 year period at ...
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Scotland-based Braveheart Investment Group plc has injected£378,000 in mLED Ltd of Glasgow,UK. The latest equity funding round comes from Braveheart's established network of private clients,the Scottish Enterprise Co-Investment Fund ...
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Sweden - Martin Professional Exterior 400 and Exterior 1200 image projectors are helping bring a legendary Swedish epic tale to life on the slopes of Åre Ski Area in central Sweden. Beginning with last year's 2011/2012 ski season, ...