Canadian convenience chain Couche-Tard has acquired 29 forecourt locations in Florida from Florida Oil Holdings. The acquisition was made through Couche-Tard's wholly-owned subsidiary Circle K Stores for an undisclosed sum. It is expected ...
Tags: convenience chain, Orlando market, forecourt locations
South Africa-based converter of flexible packaging materials CTP flexibles has added three more 1350mm wide Titan ER610's slitters. In 2010,the company installed a new 8 color Fischer&Krecke FP16-S flexo printing press,and in order to ...
Canadian retailer Couche-Tard has purchased 27 stores in Eastern Washington State through its subsidiary Cirkle K. The Tri-Cities stores, which operate under the Sun Mart banner, were acquired from Sun Pacific Energy for an undisclosed ...
FortisBC says it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the B.C. First Nations Energy & Mining Council (FNEMC) making energy self-sufficiency for First Nations communities a priority. It is the first time a privately held ...
Tags: MOU, FortisBC, energy solution, energy delivery
Couche-Tard has confirmed settlement dates in the latest development in its takeover bid for Norway's Statoil Fuel and Retail (SFR). Last week, the Canadian c-store retailer said its NOK53 (US$8.87) per share all-cash offer, which values ...
LAS VEGAS — Home furnishings brands Stanley, Norwalk, Christopher Guy and Julian Chichester will occupy new spaces in the World Market here at the winter Las Vegas Market, officials said. The four companies will be in more than ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Home furnishings
Canadian retailer Couche-Tard has booked a jump in full-year earnings, as it benefited from higher sales, improved margins and an extra trading week. The Quebec-based forecourt operator said net profit in the 53 weeks to the end of April ...
Tags: Canadian retailer, margins, trading week
ConAgra Foods is to expand a potato products plant in the US to meet growing demand at home and abroad. The company will add a production line to its Lamb Weston facility in Boardman in Oregon. The US$200m project is expected to be ...
GE Lighting has acquired Boulder, Colo.-based Albeo Technologies Inc., a privately held LED fixture manufacturer established in 2004. “The addition of Albeo Technologies’ immensely talented team and its award-winning LED ...
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Ford announced today that the redesigned Fusion hybrid sedan has been EPA certified at an even 47 mpg highway, city, and overall, thus laying claim to the title of most fuel-efficient midsized sedan available in the United States. The ...
IKEA,the largest home furnishing company and one of the largest lighting suppliers in the world,has pledged to convert its entire lighting range to LED by 2016,in a move that will have enormous implications for the LED market. The ...
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Lighting Science Group has been awarded 26 new U.S.patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for 2012. It also reports another 20 patent applications that are expected to be issued in the next few months. A total of 71 ...
Tags: Lighting Science Group, patents, R&D team, lighting systems
New UV Slim LED packages from Luminus Devices,which began sampling in May,have started shipping as production units. The new UV Slim LED devices are designed specifically for high-density linear arrays,and provide the maximum UV energy of ...
Tags: UV Slim LED packages, Luminus Devices, UV LED, Big Chip LED technology
Hostess Brands has won permission from the US Bankruptcy Court for the wind down of its business and the sale of its assets. A New York judge yesterday (21 November) approved the company's motion for the wind down after the firm was ...
Tags: bidders, assets, bakery union
Tablets based on the Windows 8 on ARM OS(Windows 8 RT)are at a more advanced stage of development than tablets based on Windows 8 running on Intel chips,reports Bloomberg. "Microsoft has worked closely with Intel and our hardware ...
Tags: Windows8, advanced, onARMOS, than, onIntelChips