Larsen & Toubro (L&T) may enter into a strategic alliance with Zurich-headquartered Swiss Re to set up a health insurance joint venture (JV) in India. Sources familiar with the matter told Moneycontrol.com: "Swiss Re will pick up 26% ...
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Viracon announces the latest addition to their decorative glass portfolio. DigitalDistinctions™ is a digital printing solution that enables a building designer to insert their artistic expressions into a glass façade. ...
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Following the investment of 25 million euros in Beneq by RUSNANO in April 2012, and as a part of its planned expansion into existing and emerging markets, Beneq is opening a subsidiary company in Russia. The company’s operations in ...
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The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced the winners of its 2012 Innovation Awards, with LUX-TSI winning the award in the Measurement in Action category, sponsored by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). The ...
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Until the end of January 2013, Osram shows its OLED installation "Dandelion" in the BMW museum in Munich, Germany. The installation consists of about 1,000 organic light-emitting diodes, so-called OLEDs. Like its sibling the LED, an OLED ...
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Bermuda-based reinsurance specialist Validus Holdings has appointed Mahmoud Abdallah to its board of directors with immediate effect, expanding the board to ten members. Validus chairman and chief executive officer Ed Noonan said: ...
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Ydrogios Insurance has selected SAS DataFlux data management technology to automate its data environment for greater business and operational efficiency. The integrated data management platform has been designed to perform data ...
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The news today that Safelite Auto Glass had purchased the auto glass business of Madison, Wisc.-based Klein-Dickert Co. Inc (KDCI) was met with a range of reactions throughout the industry. The deal, which was finalized yesterday, sells the ...
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Saint-Gobain Glass has launched SGG COOL-LITE XTREME – an extremely selective solar control glass. SGG COOL-LITE XTREME is the UK's first triple-silver solar control glass, giving it a selectivity of 2.14 – this is the ratio ...
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Cigna has registered 35% growth in consolidate revenues for the second quarter of 2012, which stood at $7.5bn compared to $5.5bn during the same period a year ago. The growth in revenues was backed by rise in premiums and fees of 52% in ...
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French general insurer MAAF Assurances has selected Sigfox's low throughput communications network for its new fire and/or intrusion alert service, MAAF self-monitoring solution. To be provided along with Sigfox network from January ...
HSBC Insurance and HSBC Asia Pacific have agreed to dispose of their entire 15.57% shareholding in Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China to Thailand's Charoen Pokphand (CP) group for HK$72.7bn ($9.38bn). Under terms of the deal, CP ...
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Allstate (NYSE: ALL) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday. The company reported $1.48 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.12 by $0.36. The company’s revenue for the quarter was ...
US insurance brokerage and risk management services firm Arthur J Gallagher & Co has acquired Nebraska based independent employee benefits consulting firm Brendis & Brendis, for an undisclosed sum. The acquired enterprise also offers ...
Fennia Mutual Insurance has selected SAS Risk Management for Insurance to manage its Solvency II compliance requirements to generate added value for their business operations. SAS will help the company in streamlining and enhancing the ...
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