CHEYENNE, WY (BRAIN) — Outdoor gear close-out retailer Sierra Trading Post has been sold to The TJX Companies Inc. for $200 million, the companies announced Friday. TJX, based in Framingham, Massachusetts, owns the T.J. Maxx, ...
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SAN DIEGO, CA (BRAIN)—Al Nordin will step down as president of Fallbrook Technologies' bicycle division at the end of the year as the company's San Diego office moves to corporate headquarters near Austin, Texas. Fallbrook is best ...
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Taiwanese Chia Ta's November sales revenues rise by 17.6% m-o-m Chia Ta World Co., one of the major re-rolling mills for steel wires and bars in Taiwan, has announced its November sales revenue totaled NT$99.53 million, rising by 17.6% ...
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Tang Eng, one of the major stainless steel flat product makers in Taiwan, said that since the company has reversed of loss on inventory and has the extra income from land expropriation in November, it might earn about NT$10 million of sales ...
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China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, raised its ex-works price of orthoxylene in East China by 1.8% effective Tuesday, industry sources said Thursday. Yangzi-BASF and Sinopec Zhenhai -- the company's subsidiaries in East China ...
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China National Petroleum Corp has commissioned a trunkline of its Second West-East gas pipeline that links Shenzhen in southern Guangdong province and Hong Kong, the company said Thursday. Gas started flowing through the spur on Wednesday ...
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The photo sharing service has announced it will now keep the same advertising section in its terms of service it had in 2010. The announcement comes in response to the backlash the company has received when it made changes which would ...
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Synthetic Biologics and Intrexon have commenced development of a monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapy, SYN-005, to treat pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough. To manage the rising number of pertussis cases, Synthetic Biologics intends ...
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Nuron Biotech has secured $80m finance from HealthCare Royalty Partners to support the commercialization and expansion of its Meningitec, a recently acquired vaccine from Pfizer. Meningitec is an established commercial vaccine to prevent ...
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US-based Omni Bio Pharmaceutical has named Bruce Schneider as the company's new chief executive officer (CEO), effective 1 January 2013. Omni Bio is involved in developing alternative uses of Alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT), designed for ...
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Plastics group Linpac Packaging has laid out a raft of investment plans in its European business for 2013 after its US sister company Ropak was sold in a $265m (£163m) deal Ropak Packaging was, earlier this month, sold to metal ...
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Packaging in the pharmaceutical market has to do more than just protect the product and attract the consumer. As Tony Corbin finds, designing the perfect pack requires a lot of care and attention When it comes to packaging in the ...
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Packaging is increasingly recognised as a vital weapon in the fight against food waste. Philip Chadwick reports on how the flexible plastics sector is innovating to play its part in packaging's biggest challenge It's a staggering figure ...
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Consumer packaging group Silgan Holdings has revised its earnings estimates for the year due to lower volumes for metal food containers. The US-based supplier of rigid consumer goods packaging also announced that it has extended the ...
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IDG News Service - Adobe plans in February to close a dangerous hole in its Shockwave application that causes the application to be downgraded when a user launches older multimedia content, allowing hackers to target years-old ...
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