Spirits giant Bacardi has appointed K.C. Kavanagh as senior vice president and global chief communications officer. Kavanagh reports to Mike Dolan, chief executive officer of Bacardi Limited, and serves on the Company’s global ...
Barry Callebaut has published its new sustainability strategy “Forever Chocolate” with the ambition to move sustainable chocolate from niche to norm in less than a decade. Barry Callebaut CEO Antoine de Saint-Affrique said: ...
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BMW is planning to invest up to €500m on new car technologies over the next 10 years via its i Ventures division. The automaker will use the money to back startups working on areas including autonomous driving and digitalisation, and ...
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Toyota Motor Corporation and Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co., Ltd. will launch a discounted insurance fee service on August 1, 2016. This will be targeted at fleet contractors with 10 vehicles or more, and who implement the Accident ...
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Toyota Motor Corporation will begin its 48th annual autumn Toyota Traffic Safety Campaign1 by launching a new traffic safety awareness project named the City Firefly Project. The project will begin on September 6 in Aichi Prefecture, and ...
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Bosch is planning to invest nearly EUR400m in the US over the course of the current year, about one-fifth more than in 2015. Bosch’s headcount is also expected to rise, from 17,800 associates at present to more than 18,800 by early ...
Antarctica Advisors, the Seafood Industry-focused advisory firm, acted as the investment banking advisor to Ocean Choice International ("OCI") in the CAD 240m ($177.6m) refinancing of its credit facilities with a syndicate of Canadian and ...
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China's Baosteel Group will have dual headquarters following its merger with smaller rival Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp, according to Shanghai-based newspaper The Paper. The newly merged steel giant will have headquarters in both ...
Toyota Research Institute (TRI) today announced that it will join forces with the Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) and its newly-formed for profit subsidiary Open Source Robotics Corporation (OSRC) to expand the development of both ...
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"There is no doubt that John has changed the LEGO Group and that the LEGO Group has changed him," said CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp. LEGO chief financial officer John Goodwin will leave the company on June 30th, 2017. Goodwin joined the ...
Mercedes-Benz said it will manufacture the first production model of the new EQ product brand at its Bremen plant in Germany by the end of 2020. The production model will depend on the EQ show car – an electric vehicle with the ...
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Bemis Company reported third quarter 2016 diluted earnings per share from continuing operations of $0.72. Excluding the effect of restructuring and acquisition-related costs detailed in the attached schedule, “Reconciliation of ...
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International Paper reported third quarter 2016 net earnings attributable to International Paper of $312 million ($0.75 per share) compared with net earnings of $40 million ($0.10 per share) in the second quarter of 2016 and net earnings of ...
Verso has announced strategic initiatives to reduce costs and improve its overall operating and financial performance. The US-based printing paper and specialty paper producer has deviced three strategic initiatives, which also includes ...
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Coca Cola European Partners (CCEP) has worked with Viridor and plastics recycling company PET UK on a project to reprocess PET liner waste from the product packaging for its Smartwater bottled water range. CCEP worked with packaging ...
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