B&G Foods and Pinnacle Foods are evaluating plans to acquire Unilever's American salad dressing brand Wish-Bone. The sale, which is being managed by investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, is part of Unilevers' strategy to focus on its ...
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MicroPort Medical, a subsidiary of MicroPort Scientific, has signed a definitive agreement with Wright Medical Group, a US-based orthopaedic company, to acquire Wright's OrthoRecon business for $290m in cash. The transaction is subject to ...
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It’s reported that China Steel Corp. (CSC), the largest carbon steel maker in Taiwan is going to invest US$62.46 million to acquire 19% share in a ferroalloy project located in Malaysia. The project will produce ferromanganese of ...
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Huawei calls the Windows Phone platform weak despite using it as the foundation for some of the smartphones it makes. “[Windows Phones] are weak but still require a licence fee,” says Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s consumer ...
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Evolucia is expanding its Sarasota operations center by moving it to a 61,000 square foot facility located at 7040 Professional Parkway East. The new facility will be the global headquarters of the company and Center of Excellence for ...
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Truth, the nation’s largest youth smoking prevention campaign, today launched its latest mobile game, Graffiti Collective. In Graffiti Collective, players use their creative skills to create on-screen graffiti that can be geo-tagged ...
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US-based Techne has agreed to buy Bionostics Holdings and its operating subsidiary Bionostics, for $104m in cash. The deal is likely to close in the first quarter of fiscal 2014 Bionostics manufactures control solutions that authenticate ...
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AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals has announced the spin-off of its 80% stake in Activartis, a Vienna-based biotech company, to a group of private investors. Activartis has developed dendritic cell-based technology for individualized tumor ...
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China Mengniu Dairy has agreed to acquire 75.3% stake in infant formula manufacturer Yashili, from chairman Zhang Lidian's family and Carlyle Group, for HK$12.5bn ($1.6bn). As part of this transaction, Yashili's controlling shareholders, ...
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Lean storage techniques will keep a lid on storage investments over the next few years, though the world's enterprises still are on track to buy 138 exabytes of storage system capacity in 2017, IDC said. Annual sales of storage capacity ...
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Genmab and ADC Therapeutics have partnered to co-develop a new antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) product conjugate to treat multiple cancer indications. The collaboration will integrate Genmab's high-affinity fully human antibody targeting ...
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3-D printer company Stratasys is acquiring desktop 3-D printer maker MakerBot for over $400 million in an all-stock deal, to shore up its consumer presence. Privately-held MakerBot has sold more than 22,000 3-D printers since it was ...
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Microsoft erred when it decided that the new Office Mobile for iPhone would be available to Office 365 customers but not to those who purchased a traditional "perpetual" license to Office 2013, an analyst argued. "It's a mistake," said ...
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Chinese dairy maker Yashili International Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 1230) is said to be acquired by China Mengniu Dairy Co., Ltd. (SEHK: 2319). Sources said recently that it would be acquired by Mengniu and on June 13, the buyer and it each ...
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IBM today unveiled an extensive array of cloud solutions designed for the C-suite to help executives accelerate innovation around customer experience to meet their business objectives in concert with their company's IT strategy. Among the ...