Nucor Corp. announced Tuesday that Daniel R. DiMicco will retire from the Board of Directors of Nucor and from his position as Executive Chairman on December 31, 2013. Nucor's Board of Directors also announced that John J. Ferriola, who ...
McLaren has announced it will open its first dealership in New Zealand. The announcement comes as McLaren celebrates its 50th anniversary, with the Auckland-based dealership set to become the brand’s 50th retail location. New ...
LabStyle Innovations, the developer of Dario, has announced the official European launch date for the Dario iOS mobile application. Dario is a cloud-based, mobile health (mHealth) platform for diabetes and related blood glucose ...
Fairfax Financial Holdings, the Canadian investment fund leading a takeover of smartphone maker BlackBerry, is to invest $250m in BlackBerry via a $1bn private placement of convertible debenture. The financing move marks the close of ...
Following the deal, which makes PCA the fourth-largest producer of containerboard and corrugated packaging products in the US, the group will now operate eight mills and 97 corrugated product plants and other facilities. The combined ...
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Fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar, of Sunnyvale, CA, USA recently held a grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new production facility in Wuxi, China, attended by government officials, executive ...
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Google is looking to triple the number of people testing Glass before the official rollout of the wearable computers next year. The company announced in a post on Google+ Tuesday that over the next few weeks all of its Glass Explorers, or ...
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American electrical manufacturer Leviton has acquired British LED lighting company JCC, in a deal that will see the expansion of JCC's business into international markets. Bognor Regis-based JCC produces LED lighting fixtures for ...
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With ten weeks to go until Christmas Day, new exclusive research conducted by OnePoll for retail technology company, Retail Assist, reveals the shopping strategies that consumers plan to use to crack Christmas this year. With 34% of ...
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A panel of intermodal experts attending the 2013 Surface Transportation Summit, held Oct. 16 by Transportation Media with Dan Goodwill & Associates, shed light on where this mode of transport is headed going into 2014. The panel, ...
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Meadow Foods, a UK-based dairy ingredients supplier, has commenced expansion project at its milk processing and butter production facilities in Chester, England. The expansion involves demolition of old buildings and an extension to the ...
Executive Chairman of the Miroglio Group, Giuseppe Miroglio, had this to say: “The opening of the new Elena Mirò store in Alba strengthens the bond that has always existed between the company and the local community”. ...
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Greg LeMond will be among 58 presenters at The Nantucket Project this weekend. Other speakers will ?include former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, Green Mountain Coffee ...
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Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group (JLT) has inked an agreement to acquire Towers Watson's (TW) reinsurance brokerage business, in a cash transaction valued at approximately $250m. The acquisition is part of JLT's strategy to establish global ...
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Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) has signed an agreement to acquire Boise, a manufacturer of packaging and paper products in the US, for about $1.9bn. The acquisition will allow PCA to increase its containerboard capacity to about ...
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