Sonoco, one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, has reported financial results for its first quarter, ending 2 April 2017. First Quarter Highlights First quarter 2017 GAAP earnings per diluted share were $0.53, ...
US-based rigid packaging supplier Silgan has completed the acquisition of WestRock Company’s specialty closures and dispensing systems business for $1.025bn. The business is engaged in supplying triggers, pumps, sprayers and ...
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) has selected BAE Systems Detica to manage its global IT estate for the next five years. The £40m deal will see BAE Systems Detica take responsibility for Service Management Integration for the ...
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The closure of Premier Foods' Barry mill in the Vale of Glamorgan – with the loss of 43 jobs last week – and plans to reorganise its milling business into two parts could herald its sale, according to City analyst Investec. ...
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The Cabinet Office has admitted that, despite its increased focus on G-Cloud and SMBs for outsourced projects, it still has "some pretty shoddy tech" - also in spite of acquiring "great people" in comparison to how it worked in the past. ...
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The government's Open Standards Principles is one of a number of factors - including G-Cloud, that'll help it achieve a target of reaching a quarter of all ICT procurement contracts being provided to small and medium-sized enterprises ...
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The Cabinet Office claims to have made savings in procurement of £3.8bn compared to three years ago when the coalition government was elected. It is also claiming savings of £500m as a result of tighter IT spending controls and ...
The OFT is scrutinising the deal to see if it could result in a “substantial lessening of competition” in the UK drinks industry. The firms said in a joint statement: “[We] have been informed…that the OFT is ...
Somerset County Council is making preparations for legal action from Southwest One, the shared services joint venture it formed with IBM in 2007. The stand-off is the culmination of 18 months of crisis talks over the joint venture's ...
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Somerset County Council's troubled outsourcing contract with Southwest One has stalled the authority's programme of cost cuts, according to a Conservative member of its cabinet. Southwest One, a shared services venture with IBM in which ...
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Regional outsourcing venture Southwest One obscured the true extent of its financial losses with a highly unusual combination of understated costs and post-dated credits in its 2010 accounts,according to an analysis of the firm's accounts ...
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