Brazilian food company BRF Brasil Foods has reported that its net earnings for the second quarter totaled BRL6.4m($3.16m),compared to BRL498m($246m)for the same period in 2011. The company posted 8.7%increase in net sales to ...
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Indian Ice cream and frozen foods firm Vadilal Industries plans to invest INR306.2m($5.52m)to expand and modernize its production facilities. This project will cover the company's facilities in Gujarat,Uttar Pradesh,and its processed food ...
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Canada-based Unifiller has launched its newly updated Dopositor,an advanced cookie dough depositor,which according to the company,optimizes the production by increasing yield,while reducing product waste and strain. Easy to setup and ...
Thomas&Betts will be exhibiting the Emergi-Lite portfolio of market leading emergency lighting and fire detection products at the forthcoming LuxLive Exhibition at Earls Court,London,UK from 6–7 November 2012. With the ...
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Thomas&Betts will be exhibiting their portfolio of market leading brands at the forthcoming Adipec Exhibition at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre,Abu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates from 11–14 November 2012. At ...
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Genentech, a member of Roche Group, has obtained clearance for its Lucentis 0.3 mg (ranibizumab injection) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Lucentis 0.3 mg is a recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody fragment (lacking an ...
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Swiss food and dairy giant Nestle has opened two production plants in South Africa. The facilities, based in the town of Babelegi in Gauteng province, will manufacture Milo and Cheerios breakfast cereals and Maggi noodles. This will be ...
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Nestle's share price increased this morning (9 August) as the Kit-Kat maker booked an increase in first-half profit and reaffirmed its full-year guidance. The Swiss food giant reported an 8.9% increase in earnings of CHF5.12bn (US$5.26bn) ...
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Finnish meat firm HKScan has reported widening half-year losses and reiterated its warning that annual EBIT will fall this year. In the six months to the end of June, net losses amounted to EUR5.1m (US$6.3m) compared to a net loss of ...
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Google is to lay off 20%of the Motorola Mobility workforce with 4,000 redundancies worldwide,two-thirds of that number coming from outside the US. The company said it intends to ditch its standard phones as part of the move."Motorola ...
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Open source"big data"technologies seem stuck in the sand pit of experimentation in UK corporations. This has been a consistent theme in SearchDataManagement.co.UK interviews with people familiar with early big data implementations. For ...
Google is to cut Motorola Mobility's global workforce by about 4,000,or 20 per cent,and will look to close about a third of its 94 worldwide offices. A Motorola spokesperson confirmed the job cuts in a statement and stated that the ...
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Microsoft has settled on the term 'Modern UI' in its attempt to rebrand the Metro interface on its forthcoming Windows 8 platform. The software giant was forced to dump the Metro name earlier this month following discussions with German ...
US snacks and smoothie manufacturer Inventure Foods has extended its licensed Jamba smoothie range to include an "at home" line. The Jamba Greek Yogurt Superfruit Smoothies, designed to be prepared at home, expands the smoothie concept by ...
Supermarket chain Iceland is to re-open the online store it closed six years ago due to rising demand from customers. Iceland pioneered online supermarket shopping as long ago as 1996,well before Tesco,Sainsbury's and other big ...
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