Insurance brokerage firm Hylant has completed acquisition of AGIS, an independent, full-service employee benefits agency, further expanding its geographical footprint into Florida, US. According to the company, the acquisition of AGIS, ...
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WikiCell Designs in the US has landed a $10m Series-A financing co-led by Flagship Ventures and Polaris Venture Partners in a bid to make food and beverage packaging that will be edible. WikiCell Designs CEO and co-founder Robert Connelly ...
Tags: packaging, edible packaging, food
Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A., (TMHU) celebrated the ground breaking of the expansion of its Columbus, Ind. offices at its manufacturing facility, Toyota Industrial Equipment Mfg, Inc. (TIEM). When complete in 2013, TMHU's new ...
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Intertape Polymer Group, a packaging products firm, said it would shift its shrink film production business to Tremonton in Utah from Truro in Nova Scotia. Intertape is also planning to close its tape manufacturing facility in Richmond, ...
Hermitage-based Lexon Insurance has signed a definitive stock purchase agreement to buy Florida-based Peninsular Insurance. Under the terms of the agreement, Lexon will acquire all the of Peninsular Surety and the latter will become a ...
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MphasiS-Wyde has officially unveiled Wynsure v4.7, an end-to-end multi-line insurance platform designed to manage multiple lines of business including group, individual, property & casualty, health and mortgage insurance. MphasiS-Wyde for ...
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UK-based label manufacturer Tamar Labels has announced the acquisition of the assets of Irish self adhesive label printing company Labelit. The acquisition will allow Tamar to expand its current service offering into Europe and will also ...
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Ink manufacturer Sun Chemical has announced a price increase for its European customers across all its products, effective from 1 January In a statement, Sun Chemical said that the percentage increase will be in the high single digits ...
Tags: ink, raw material, key materials, weaker value of the Euro
US-based injection molding and plasics packaging firm Berry Plastics has completed the acquisition of Frans Nooren Beheer companies, which include STOPAQ, an anti-corrosive coatings and sealants firm, for undisclosed amount. Earlier in ...
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For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2012 (to end-August), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan has reported revenue of $5.5m, up 3% on $5.3m a year ago but down 40% on $9.2m. last quarter. Revenue for ...
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Cigna (CI) has signed an agreement to purchase selected Medicare Advantage plans in Texas and Arkansas from health insurer Humana. The acquisition of three Humana's markets including Amarillo, Longview-Marshall and Texarkana will allow ...
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Dubai-based biaxially oriented polypropylene film (BOPP) producer Taghleef Industries (Ti) has closed the previously announced deal to acquire Applied Extrusion Technologies (AET Films), a North American supplier of oriented polypropylene ...
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, is sponsoring the lighting industry's first PlugFest in conjunction with the Illuminating ...
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Building on its innovations of hot testing and 'Freedom from Binning', LED maker Philips Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has launched LUXEON T, its next-generation illumination-grade LED which is tested and specified at 85°C to ensure ...
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Liberty Bankers Life Insurance Company (LBL) has deployed Princeton Financial Systems' PAM service to support its mortgage assets. Liberty Bankers Life Insurance Company vice president Tina Lowe said the company's current platform did not ...
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