Scottish farmer-owned co-operative ANM Group has announced plans to sell its Scotch Premier Meat and Yorkshire Premier Meat businesses following a strategic review of its operations. In a statement yesterday (19 July), the company said ...
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Cranswick has applied for a second licence to supply British pork to the US market. Pork ribs have a higher price point in the US Last year the company secured United States Department of Agriculture(USDA)accreditation for its pork ...
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Scotland-based Henry Schein Animal Health, a veterinary products and services wholesaler, has chosen woolcool packaging material for temperature-sensitive vaccines for cold chain logistics benefits. The woolcool material is touted as a ...
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Rail Settlement Plan(RSP),the company that provides IT and retail services to UK rail operators,is upgrading its systems with AWS cloud to provide a next-generation ticket issuing systems as a growing number of commuters adopt the"click and ...
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The number of UK workers employed in the IT outsourcing sector has dropped, as has its total contribution to the UK economy, according to research by Oxford Economics. Research into the UK outsourcing sector in 2010 found that total ...
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Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
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HP is not the first to have referred Autonomy to the Serious Fraud Office,according to UK IT consultant Alan Pelz-Sharpe(pictured). HP bought Autonomy in 2011 for$11.7bn.But yesterday,HP wrote down the value of Autonomy by$8.8bn,accusing ...
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Computing is proud to announce the winners of this year's prestigious UK IT Industry Awards. At a glittering event in London last night,Computing,in association with the BCS,the Chartered Institute for IT,presented awards to the winners ...
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An IT recruitment expert has criticised government pay thresholds for overseas IT workers in the UK, claiming it groups vastly different jobs together and sets salaries too low, presuming an IT director in the UK can earn as little as ...
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Back-office service providers are failing to meet customer needs, with 70% of suppliers claiming projects are not being managed properly when transferring from an in-house to an outsourced function, says research from KPMG. According to ...
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British Gas chief information officer(CIO)David Cooper likes to keep things low-key.But the scale of his multimillion-pound technology transformation,and the impact his team's work has on customer spending,makes his one of the ...
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Tesco has posted a historic decline following a £1bn investment programme earlier this year, designed to bolster its online channel. The supermarket giant saw profits drop 10.5% to £1.6bn for its half-year result, the first ...
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UK businesses are failing to protect themselves against the risks posed by staff using personal devices in the workplace. Two thirds of UK IT managers are concerned that the use of personally owned devices in the workplace poses a ...
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UK-IT and AV rental company,DB Systems,has spent just over GBP100,000 on 170 LED LCD screens,following increased demand from customers.All the new screens,which are a mix of 55",47",42"and 32"in size,are Full HD,while 80 are 3D Smart ...
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A comprehensive annual survey of £14bn worth of UK IT services contacts has revealed a continued appetite to outsource, new reasons for doing so and different ways of doing it. In its sixth year, KPMG's annual UK IT Service Provider ...
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