Hostess Brands, a US-based bankrupt producer of bakery products, has attained US Bankruptcy Court approval to sell its Drake's snack cake brand as well as four of its northwest regional bread brands in separate transactions that are ...
US-based Arcadia Biosciences and DuPont Pioneer have partnered to develop a specialty nutritional oil for consumer markets across the world, as part of a missions to develop products that enhance human health. As per the agreed terms, ...
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Pie-maker UpperCrust is set to introduce a range of seasonal gastro pies in the UK for a limited time from 8 May. The company stated that the first product in the 'Seasonal Specials' range will be the Chicken & Pesto Pie, UpperCrust's ...
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Europe’s leading own label ice cream manufacturer R&R Ice Cream has agreed to acquire UK-based ice cream producer Fredericks Dairies for £49m. Fredericks Dairies, headquartered in Skelmersdale, England, has license to ...
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US agribusiness firm Cargill has reported that its net earnings declined by 42% for the third quarter of 2013 to $445m, compared with $766m in the same period of 2012 due to severe US drought that affected the company's meat processing ...
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German automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz has added the GLK 250 4MATIC engine for the GLK model series. The four-cylinder 2L V6 petrol direct injection engine delivers an output of 155kW (211hp) with torque of 350Nm, and will be made ...
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Czech automobile manufacturer Skoda has started the operations at its modified parts center in Mlada Boleslav. The company had invested EUR31.8m to modify the parts center, which houses the fully automatic and high-rack warehouse. ...
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Japanese Car manufacturer Daihatsu Motor has introduced its new hybrid passenger vehicle, MEBIUS, in the home-market. The vehicle is powered by a 1.8L hybrid engine that generates an output of 73kW and torque of 142Nm at 4,000rpm, ...
After more than 400 miles of driving the new Acura RLX, I can think of little good to say about it. Being neither luxurious nor sporty, the RLX fails to excite. And that's putting it mildly. The brand-new RLX—Acura's flagship sedan ...
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Up until now, if you liked Panasonic's take on Internet content, you had to buy one of its online-ready TVs. But now there's another, less expensive option: the company's first standalone streaming media players. You can choose between ...
Panasonic Corp of Osaka, Japan has developed a GaN-based power transistor with a blocking voltage of 600V that enables stable switching operations. Shipment of evaluation samples began in March. The firm claims that its design will for ...
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Hunan Province-based Chinese steelmaker Shengli Xianggang Steel Pipe Co. has announced that production operations in the first phase of its RMB 600 million ($96.46 million) steel pipe project are expected to begin in the second half of the ...
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Vitacost.com, Inc., an online retailer of health and wellness products, today announced a new digital platform for tablet devices that revolutionizes the shopping experience for consumers. Consumers visiting discovery.vitacost.com via an ...
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Broadband Technology 2000 has signed a rep and distribution deal with US start-up GreenVITY, which develops powerline comms (PLC) to Zigbee and Zigbee to PLC bridge ICs. The chips conform to the HomePlug Green PHY specification supporting ...
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National Instruments is hosting its LabVIEW Developer Days 2013 at nine locations across the UK and Ireland between May and June. Technical sessions range from the the introductory to the advanced, and are accompanied by in-depth topic ...
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