Peer Foods Group, a US-based producer and distributor of major meats, is set to establish a new production facility in Cumberland, Indiana, creating 80 new jobs by 2014. As part of the expansion plan, the company will invest about $5.5m, ...
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Hain Celestial, a US-based natural and organic food manufacturer, has announced its support for the increased transparency in the labeling of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). Since 2010, the company has been taking part in the ...
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Porsche has announced the establishment of a subsidiary company in Shanghai, which will provide consulting services to the automotive industry, aerospace and all kinds of machinery and equipment manufacturing field and large and ...
A distinguished group of designers, environmentalists, educators, artists, and authors will explore the three P’s – People, Planet, and Prosperity – the triple bottom line values and criteria by which businesses, ...
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Toshiba has announced its first ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller with DSP extensions, a floating point unit (FPU) and a programmable servo/sequencer controller (PSC). The TMPM4440 microcontrollers are available with 768kbyte or 1024kbyte of ...
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Mr Doug McMillon, CEO Walmart met the Commerce, Industry & Textiles Minister during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2013, at Davos. During the meeting, CEO Walmart conveyed that they are studying the conditions in India. He was ...
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The Board of Directors of the Oerlikon Group announces that CEO Dr. Michael Buscher will leave the Company. The Board has appointed CFO Jurg Fedier interim CEO with immediate effect. Michael Buscher, who led the Oerlikon Group through ...
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Pig DNA has been found in halal chicken sausages that were supplied to a primary school in Westminster, central London. This contamination was identified after Westminster Council officers collected seven samples from three schools in ...
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Acal has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire the Myrra Group through the acquisition of its holding company, Aramys, for an initial €9.5m (£8.3m). A further future payment of up to a maximum of €1.8m ...
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Renesas Electronics is offering customers of its RX microcontrollers a free of-charge design qualification service for commercial software up to the value of €20,000. The programme supports a range of middleware, including operating ...
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Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp. (WISCO) has announced that its representative office in South Korea, which had been established in June 2009, has been upgraded to subsidiary status and is now ...
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Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced that in the January-February period of the current year its subsidiary Xuanhua Steel supplied 5,600 mt of round bar to Chongqing Sangang Steel Industry Co., ...
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced that it has granted authorization to Queensland coal producers Endocoal, Whitehaven Coal, Yancoal Australia, QC Resource Investments and Linc Energy to collectively ...
Australian rail and logistics company Aurizon has announced that it has signed a new long-term coal haulage contract with Australian coal producer Xstrata, as Xstrata continues to increase production at its Rolleston mine in central ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Navidea Biopharmaceuticals' Lymphoseek (technetium Tc 99m tilmanocept) injection, a novel product indicated for use in lymphatic mapping procedure. The lymphatic mapping procedure ...
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