BASSETT, Va. — Bassett Home Furnishings stores are introducing the HGTV Home line of custom upholstery and accent furniture this week. Consumers can visit an HGTV Home Design Studio in any of the 87 company-owned and licensed ...
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Sony is cutting 1,000 jobs in its mobile division as it moves the business closer to its headquarters in Japan. The decision comes as a result of Sony buying a 50%share in the division from its mobile business partner,Ericsson,in February ...
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Hain Celestial,a US-based natural and organic products company,has entered into an agreement to acquire leading packaged grocery brands from UK-based Premier Foods in a£200m cash and stock deal. Under the agreement,Hain will ...
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TSMC's 28nm yield is now over 80%,according to Taiwan's Chinese language newspaper the Commercial Times. The Commercial Times quoted sources from TSMC's equipment suppliers for the information. According to another Taiwan newspaper,the ...
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MARSHFIELD,Wis.—Marc Levy has been named chief operating officer at Marshfield Furniture. Marc Levy Levy has been at the mid-price upholstery producer for 12 years,and had prior manufacturing and sales management experience at ...
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Software control Raydiance,the California-based developer of packaged femtosecond laser technology targeted at manufacturing and machining applications,has announced the completion of a round of growth financing worth$20 million. The ...
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Philips Lighting North America has won the 60W replacement bulb category in the Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize with a 10W LED solution. The prize,also known as the L Prize,was awarded by the US Department of Energy and offers a$10 ...
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US retailer Supervalu has named Robert Bly president of Shoppers, a 56-store division operating discount outlets in Baltimore and Washington DC. Bly most recently served as VP of Sears-owned K-Mart, where he worked on efforts to grow ...
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Samsung will become the largest foreign corporate investor in the history of Texas when it spends the$4bn on its Austin fab which it announced today. The$4bn will bring to$13bn the amount invested by Samsung in Ausatin. Samsung intends ...
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X5 Retail Group has booked a 20.6% decline in first-half profits, with declining sales and margins hitting the bottom line and currency exchange dampening comparisons. The company said today (21 August) net profit slipped to US$135.2m in ...
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Comtech Telecommunications Corp says that its subsidiary Comtech PST Corp in Melville, NY, USA has been awarded a $3.1m contract for solid-state, high-power RF switches from a major domestic prime contractor. The firm says that the ...
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Toshiba Electronics and Panasonic Industrial Devices have teamed up in Europe to offer a Bluetooth module for industrial,automation,medical,personal sport and fitness equipment. The module will combine Toshiba's single chip TC35661 ...
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Survey of more than 7500 people working in photonics suggests that nearly nine in ten find their job highly satisfying. Aerospace on top again:salary by discipline A new survey has found that the vast majority of people working in the ...
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Sentry Electric,one of North America's most experienced and knowledgeable manufacturers of outdoor lighting,is pleased to announce the launching of its new web site.Designed with the user in mind,the new web site offers improved ...
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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton,CO,USA,which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on copper indium gallium diselenide(CIGS)using flexible substrate materials,has regained compliance with the Nasdaq Stock Market ...