Drinks giant Diageo is reportedly planning to slash around 400 jobs at its London office in order to boost profits and reduce expenditures. The move from the company is seen to be a part of a three-year initiative designed to save ...
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Private equity firm, The Onex Group, has completed the acquisition process of SIG Combibloc Group, suppliers of carton packaging and filling machines for beverages and food, for €3.75bn. SIG is a part of the New Zealand-based Rank ...
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“I need to build an organisation that’s more diverse, more international and more global,” the LEGO Group’s CEO Jorgen Von Knudstorp tells ToyNews. Everything is awesome for LEGO after a bumper 2014, but the firm ...
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Apple is seeking help to bring its Apple Pay mobile payments platform to new territories, a job posting on the company’s website has revealed. According to the listing, identified by iClarified (via Apple Insider), the Cupertino ...
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It’s the world’s largest manufacturer of carton packaging for the food and beverage industry. Toronto private equity firm, Onex Corporation, the largest buyout firm in Canada, has agreed to buy SIG Combibloc from Rank Group New ...
SIG was previously owned by Rank Group and the takeover is expected to be formally completed in the first quarter of 2015 Onex Corporation is a private equity investment firm. It is a publicly traded company controlled by its founder ...
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Lighting controls firm Delmatic has opened a second office in London. The company said the new office would help it to handle the increasing number of designs and projects in the city and strengthen the company’s relationships with ...
Smartglass International are delighted to announce that we have successfully supplied and installed Privacy Smartglass for the Edmond de Rothschild group in London. The prestigious Edmond de Rothschild Group was set up in 1953 by Baron ...
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Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan has inked a deal to acquire UK-based biscuit manufacturer Burton's Biscuits for an undisclosed amount. Burton's is owned by private equity group Apollo Global Management and Canadian Imperial Bank of ...
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Burton’s Biscuits, the maker of iconic snacks Wagon Wheels and Jammie Dodgers, has been sold to the Canadian pension fund Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) for an undisclosed sum. Jammie Dodgers' maker Burton's Biscuits has been ...
Apollo Tyres Ltd. has appointmented The Brooklyn Brothers as its global creative agency. The agency’s London office will service the account, which Apollo won after a multi-agency pitch process. The new creative partners will be ...
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US internet retailer Amazon is opening a central London office, bringing 1,600 jobs to the capital. Amazon will move several hundred existing employees from the company's current offices in Slough to the new 12-storey, 210,000 sq ft ...
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Disney is looking for a senior product development manager to work out of its London office. The Disney Consumer Products role will be focused on boys toys and stationery across Europe. The role will involve working with iconic ...
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Point-of-sale and in-store marketing group Bezier has gone into administration just a week after it lost a £10m contract with Boots, Packaging News can confirm Administrators from financial services group Deloitte were appointed to ...
St Beneluxin Ramsgate prides itself on the cutting edge facilities available to its students, so the recent addition of a dedicated new theatre at the college had to live up to high expectations. The multi-use theatre, which forms part of ...
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