Business Line reported that Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd is expediting one of its long pending projects a cement grinding unit to make use of the slag generated by blast furnaces and flyash. The company has allocated 100 acres for the ...
Scholle has announced the sale of its Vacumet Plastics Division in Austell, Georgia to Indian Polyester film producer Polyplex’s US subsidiary, as part of an agreement. The acquisition, which is expected to close in July 2012, is ...
Tags: Vacumet Plastics, packaging solutions, bag-in-box packaging
Glass container manufacturer Ardagh has agreed to acquire US-based Anchor Glass Container from private investment funds managed by Wayzata Investment Partners in a deal worth €721m ($880m). Ardagh chairman Paul Coulson said the ...
Tags: Anchor Glass Container, Glass container, food and beverage industries
The Specialty Sleep Assn. is moving to a new space at the Las Vegas Market, on the 15th floor of World Market Center Building C. The group said it expects 30 to 40 of its members to participate in showing in a 13,000-square-foot space, ...
Tags: SSA, sleep category, product innovation
Finnish materials company Ahlstrom has signed an agreement with Munksjö’s principal owner EQT to combine its Label and Processing business area with Munksjö to form a single company Munksjö Corporation through two ...
Tags: Business Unit, Label and Processing business, Coated Specialties plant
The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has rolled out an insurance product with an aim to assist small to mid-size health care organizations to manage their data breaches and health care fraud. The product, ForeFront Portfolio 3.0 for ...
Tags: Chubb Group, insurance product, cyber liability insurance
Schmitt Furniture of New Albany, Ind., has joined the Furniture First buying group. With the addition of Schmitt, a family-owned full-line furniture retailer with a 76-year history in New Albany, Furniture First now has 194 members with ...
Tags: Furniture, Schmitt Furniture, Furniture First buying group
Research in Motion Thursday introduced the BlackBerry 10 Ready Program to help prepare business customers for the launch of the next-generation operating system Jan.30. Participants in the program can get a free BlackBerry 10-based ...
Tags: RIM, BlackBerry 10 smartphone, BlackBerry Enterprise Server 10
Protective Life Corporation (PLC) has registered 13% downfall in net income available to PLC's common shareowners to $76.2 m, or $0.91 per average diluted share for the second quarter of 2012, against $87.6m, or $1.00, during the same ...
Tags: Protective Life Corporation, net income, operating income, insurance
HOUSTON - Bedding retailer Mattress Firm said sales jumped more than 50% in the quarter ended Oct. 30 due largely to acquisitions and store openings. Same-store sales, however, also rose 6.6% in the quarter as the company continued to ...
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Business Line reported that TVS Motor Company's total sales in November dropped marginally to1,71,873 units from1,75,535 units in the same period last year. The company's 2 wheeler sales dropped 3.5% to 166,783 units. Domestic sales saw a ...
Tags: TVS Motor, wheeler, motorcycle
HOUSTON - Fast-growing bedding retailer Mattress Firm has agreed to acquire Mattress Source, a 28-store bedding specialty chain based in Charlotte, N.C. The deal, which is valued at about $11.2 million, will result in Mattress Source's ...
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Ambac Financial has posted a second quarter 2012 net loss of $811.1m, or $2.68 per share, against $102.4m, or a net loss of $0.34 per share during the same period earlier year. According to the company, second quarter 2012 results were ...
Tags: Ambac Financial, loss deepens, portfolio repositioning
Insurance broker Willis Group Holdings has hired Nils Arne Fagerli as CEO of Willis Norway effective immediately. Based in Oslo, Fagerli will report to Adam Garrard, Willis International CEO of Europe. Garrard said, "With a wealth of ...
Tags: Willis Group Holdings, insurance broker, Nils Arne Fagerli
GlacialLight, a division of the Taiwanese technology manufacturer, GlacialTech Inc., has added the GL-FL60, a 60W AC-input LED Flood Light with Philips Lumileds LED chips, to its energy efficient LED flood light series. The GL-FL60 ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Led Flood Light, Philips Lumileds LED chips