China's auto market grew by double digits in August as carmakers tapped the sales momentum from January to July. Sales of passenger cars and commercial vehicles rose 10.3 percent in August from a year earlier to 1.65 million units. On a ...
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PPG Industries’ coil and extrusion coatings group will exhibit the full lines of Duranar and Coraflon coatings at CONSTRUCT 2013, Sept. 24-27, at Music City Center in Nashville, TN. Coil coatings on display will include Duranar ...
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Private equity firm, Advent International has sold Deutek, Romania’s largest manufacturer of decorative paints and coatings to Emerging Europe Accession Fund (EEAF), the third private equity fund managed by Axxess Capital. The value ...
In order to lead the micro truck users to upgrade their vehicles, Foton Forland launches Kangrui K series, a strategic vehicle for entering the traditional micro market. Since the launch in May, Forland Kangrui sees doubled sales every ...
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Athletic recovery brand 110% has hired Austin Chow as president.? Chow will lead all brand strategy, marketing, sales and product development efforts to for the brand, which is known for its compression and ice therapy gear. "We are ...
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Hong Kong-listed Brightoil Petroleum has started supplying bunker fuel from Qingdao port in East China from Tuesday, a company source said. The company completed a delivery of 380 CST grade bunker fuel to one vessel in Qingdao on Tuesday, ...
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China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, raised ex-factory toluene prices at its South China subsidiaries by Yuan 100/mt, or 1.2%, on Tuesday, market sources said Tuesday. A company source could not be contacted immediately for ...
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Russian state gas firm OAO Gazprom (GAZP.RS) said Monday it will close an asset-swap deal with BASF SE (BAS.XE) in 2014, a year later than planned. Gazprom agreed in November last year to give BASF two stakes in a West Siberia gas field ...
One of the world's top-selling drugs—GlaxoSmithKline PLC's $8-billion-a-year asthma treatment Advair—became more vulnerable to generic competition after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued guidance on the regulatory ...
Alcoa's declining market capital and low share price prompted officials with S&P Dow Jones Indices to remove the US aluminum major from its Dow Jones industrial average Tuesday. "Alcoa's market capital was dead last among the 30 ...
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An 8.3 billion pound ($13 billion) project to build a refinery and petrochemical plant in eastern China involving Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) has been shelved after losing political support, the Telegraph newspaper reported, citing sources. ...
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Chinese scientists announced on Monday that they have developed a type of nanomaterial which can catalyze algae masses growing on water surfaces into inorganic earth. Chinese lakes are often plagued by catastrophic outbreaks of blue-green ...
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Systems management software vendor BMC Software has finally completed the deal that will take into private ownership. The $6.4bn deal will see BMC fall into the hands of private equity companies Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital. ...
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Networking giant Cisco is to buy scalable solid state memory system provider Whiptail in a deal worth about $415m. According to Cisco, the deal would strengthen its Unified Computing System (UCS) strategy and allow it to better support ...
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Dell founder Michael Dell and investor Silver Lake Management have had their proposed $24.9bn buyout of ailing PC maker Dell approved by holders of the voting shares. The buyout, which is the largest of its kind since 2007, has been ...
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