Del Monte Pacific (DMPL), a Singapore-based food and beverage firm, has agreed to acquire Del Monte Foods' Consumer Products business in a $1.67bn deal. DMPL owns the Del Monte brand in the Philippines and is the exclusive licensee for ...
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Stevia First, a California-based agribusiness firm, focused on production of stevia sweetener, has signed a retail distribution and marketing support agreement with Vancouver, Canada-based GAB Innovations. GAB Innovations is a distributor ...
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LLamasoft, a US-based supply chain software solutions provider, has unveiled an updated 8.0 release of Supply Chain Guru and Transportation Guru supply chain and transportation network design software. According the company, the new ...
Cargill, a US-based agribusiness company, has reported a 41% drop in net earnings to $571m, for the first quarter of 2014 over stale performance in its global grain trading and processing business, affected by 2012 drought. Net sales for ...
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The leaves of the maple tree will soon be ablaze in seasonal colors, and the cooler weather is the perfect time to enjoy the flavors of the tree’s syrup at breakfast. With hundreds of years of delicious history, maple epitomizes ...
Tags: Cheese Biscuit, Breakfast Cravings
Creative Edge Nutrition, a nutritional supplement company focusing on active lifestyles today announced that its performance based products by its brand Cenergy Nutrition will now be Exclusively Distributed by the US's top Distributor ...
The DuPont BAX System has been certified by the AOAC Research Institute as a Performance Tested Method (PTM) for detecting Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) in beef trim and ground beef. "With this certification, our entire portfolio of ...
Tags: DuPont, Bax System, Pathogenic E.Coli
Hershey, a US chocolate manufacturer, is set to launch a new candy brand, Lancaster, featuring a line of caramel soft cremes that will roll out across the country in January 2014. The company stated that the launch will be its first new ...
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Kohat Cement Company Limited has become a subsidiary of ANS Capital as the sponsors of Kohat Cement have transferred 55 percent of their holding to the latter. According to the details, six of seven directors of the cement maker – ...
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Ikea Canada is giving C$130,000 in furniture and home furnishings to the Salvation Army and Save the Children Canada to assist in flood recovery efforts in Alberta. Save the Children will allocate its portion to the Siksika and Morley ...
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Bob Sherman, who built Serta into the nation's largest bedding producer, is leaving Serta to pursue other interests, officials announced. His wife, Barbara Bradford, a senior Serta official, is also leaving. No reason for the departures, ...
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Media reports said that two scientists from Eli Lilly and Company are accused for leaking business secrets worth USD 55 million to Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co., Ltd. (SHSE: 600276). The Chinese drug maker clarified that it has been abiding ...
Tags: Hengrui Medicine, Health, Medicine
In response to the recent Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Food Wastage Footprint Summary Report and call for action, the PAC board of directors announced the launch of the PAC Food Waste initiative. FAO ...
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As anticipated, the latest round of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday monthly release of security fixes addresses a widely known Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability already being exploited by malicious hackers. Overall, for October’s ...
The PC market remained weak in the third quarter, but the expiration of Microsoft’s support for Windows XP in April next year may have prompted users to look at upgrades, which eased the slump. About 81.6 million PCs shipped during ...
Tags: Windows XP, PC Market