US carmaker General Motors is planning to shut down an assembly line at its Ontario plant in Oshawa, Canada, by June 2013. The joint line, one of two assembly lines at the Oshawa plant, employing nearly 2,000 workers, was earlier planned ...
Tags: General Motors, Chevrolet Impala, Chevrolet Equinox crossover
Concord Sales, the Pacific division of Concord National, has announced that it has acquired interest in Indigo Natural Products Management, a natural product sales organizations in Canada. Indigo Natural Products Management, based in ...
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Brand design agency BrandOpus has redesigned the UK-based New Covent Garden Soup’s packaging by focusing on the soup company’s message of ‘Fresh from our kitchen to yours’. Assigned to work in May 2012, BrandOpus ...
Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) has selected Sparta Systems' TrackWise quality management software to centralize the management of its global quality and compliance processes including audits and corrective and preventive actions. ...
Glass container manufacturer Ardagh Group has produced new bottles for Absolut at the company’s glass plant in Limmared, Sweden. According to Ardagh, the new Absolut Unique concept from the Swedish Brewer is a limited edition of ...
Tags: Bottles, Glass container, decorated bottles
Yet another Brandix factory, Brandix Casualwear Ltd., - Giritale, has been accorded an 'Eco Factory Attribute' by Marks & Spencer (M&S), in recognition of its achievements in environmental sustainability and preservation. Strategically ...
Tags: Brandix factory, Brandix Casualwear, M&S, environmental sustainability
Phoenix Industries, a plastics products maker in Sri Lanka has laid the foundation stone for a new LKR350m ($3m) plant in Horana, which will supply the packaging needs of the fast moving consumer goods company Unilever's Sri Lanka unit. ...
US-based OtterBox has announced the acquisition of Wrapsol and its family of protective film solutions for mobile devices for an undisclosed value. OtterBox president and CEO Brian Thomas said the product of Wrapsol aligns with the ...
Tags: Protective Film, mobile devices, Wrapsol
850 high-quality visitors came to preview the fabrics and private label collections offered by fashion co-contractors at the October 2012 show, down 15% year-on-year because of the sluggish economic climate. Fast Fashion London remains ...
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Merck, known as MSD outside the US and Canada, has won Zetia (ezetimibe) / Vytorin (ezetimibe/simvastatin) patent infringement suits against Mylan Pharmaceuticals. The US District Court has ruled in favor of Merck in two jointly ...
Nissan North America has reported 16.2% rise in its sales in July 2012 to 98,341 units when compared to 84,601 units sold during the same period in 2011. During the period, the sales of Nissan Division rose 12.3% to 86,722 units over ...
Tags: Nissan, sales rise, North America
Chemicals company Tessenderlo Group has announced that its plans to sell Profialis, its continental European PVC profile business, to investment firm Open Gate Capital, for an undisclosed sum. Belgium-based company said staff at Los ...
Tags: Pvc Profile, Profialis, specialty products
UK-based retailer Tesco has announced its support for a hybrid labeling system that combines its existing Guideline Daily Amounts (GDA) with the ‘traffic light’ color coding system, following new customer research. The ...
Holmes & Marchant has created new packaging design for Dutch coffee roaster Douwe Egberts’s range of flavored instant coffee, called ‘The Flavour Collective’ that targets women. Douwe Egberts gave a brief to Holmes & ...
OmniComm Systems has signed an agreement with Larix to support its clinical research needs for a five year, 31 site study. The partnership will enable Larix to provide its customers with quality products and services to manage complex ...