The food imports in UAE would see an increase of up to $400bn in the coming ten years, compared to $100bn reported in 2014, said UAE Minister of Economy Sultan Al Mansouri. The country currently exports 85% of its food and is planning to ...
Mercedes-Benz is planning to introduce the company’s first pickup truck by 2020, and become the first premium manufacturer to produce a pickup truck under its brand name. According to the German automaker, the company is simply ...
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Australia-based packaging solution provider Amcor has announced the acquisition of South African packaging company Nampak Flexibles for $22m (ZAR250m). Amcor specialises in supplying a range of rigid and flexible packaging products to ...
Distell Group, a leading liquor producer in South Africa, is in negotiations with India-based Tilaknagar Industries to acquire a few of latter’s brands. Tilaknagar Industries, which has INR 8bn- ($128m) debt, expects to generate ...
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Fans have chosen the cities, with four million votes have been cast from 182 countries worldwide. Hasbro has revealed the cities that fans have selected to grace the board of the upcoming Monopoly Here & Now: World Edition. For the ...
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South African food company Pioneer Foods is planning to buy more assets in African countries following the acquisition of major stake in Nigerian firm Food Concepts. The South African firm, which recently completed the $7m purchase of ...
Tags: beverages, investments, Food
RPM International Inc. has announced that its Rust-Oleum Group has acquired Spraymate Group, the producer of South Africa's leading aerosol paint brand. Based outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, Spraymate has annual net sales of ...
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Fairtrade International which introduced Fairtrade certified cotton in 2005 is now extending its approach to the entire textile value chain, for which it has prepared a draft. The organisation’s goal is to reach often-overlooked ...
Food Concepts Plc, the Nigerian parent company of Free Range Farms, Butterfield Bakery and Chicken Republic, has partnered with South Africa based Pioneer Foods. Deji Akinyanju, Food Concepts Chairman, said: "The partnership will benefit ...
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Faculty and graduate students from the University of Delaware’s Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies have come forward to help establish a Southern African Sustainable Textile and Apparel Cluster to boost South Africa’s ...
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Centric Software, Inc. which offers product lifecycle management (PLM) software for retail said it set record-setting growth in bookings, customers and geographic expansion in fiscal ending January 31, 2015. “Centric has earned its ...
A new report by Canadean expects more Africans to enter the beer market from the home brew sector, while commercial beer and premium brands forge ahead in the exploding African beer market. According to the report, the African beer market ...
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South Africa-based SurePure, which is involved in turbid liquid photopurification, has agreed to use its patented photopurification technology in Northern India. This is aimed to deliver safe, high quality milk along with enhancing the ...
Chinese high-speed train companies are eyeing more contracts in overseas markets. "The US will be the next strategic focus for us, after successfully winning the Boston contract," Yu Weiping, vice-president of China CNR Corp, told China ...
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China plans to draw up a guideline to help its equipment makers, particularly railway and nuclear companies, to expand exports, the country's top economic planning body said on Friday. Formulation of the guideline has just begun, and it ...