US confectioner Hershey has raised its full-year profit outlook despite reporting a 10% drop in third-quarter earnings. In the three months to the end of September, net profit slumped 79.8% to US$176.7m, while EBIT fell 6% to $301.7m. ...
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Fernie’s Home Hardware has been through a few changes over the years. Originally Beaver Lumber, the store moved from its original location to East Fernie’s industrial area in 1995, and in 2000 became a Home Hardware Building ...
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Schmahl looks at the impact of recent prices on exports,the reality of feed costs and the outlook for U.S.milk production. Much to the dismay of dairy farmers,cash prices have had difficulty maintaining upward momentum.In fact,it appears ...
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Fifty years ago this month, GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED). In the five decades since, businesses and municipalities the world over have embraced LED systems for ...
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Graybar, a leading distributor of electrical, communications and data networking products and provider of related supply chain management and logistics services, presented GE Lighting with the Graybar Supplier Excellence Award on Oct. 11. ...
Businesses are opening themselves up to security threats by failing to manage bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programmes properly. According to a study of 4,000 workers, carried out by Ovum, 80% of corporate BYOD schemes are "inadequately ...
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Specialized dispatch furniture is an integral part of dispatch operations.A dispatch console can be entirely custom designed to meet the specific needs of the activity,or bought off-the-shelf with an expectation that the product will meet ...
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Ikea announced earlier this month that it will switch to selling only LED bulbs and lamps by 2016, becoming the first U.S. home furnishing retailer to do so. The announcement is fitting, as LED lighting technology celebrates its 50th ...
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EE has released its tariffs for the UK's first 4G contracts, which will be available from the end of October. EE – created from the merger of T-Mobile and Orange and formerly known as Everything Everywhere – has outlined price ...
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A management shake-up at Juniper Networks continues, as Stefan Dyckerhoff has been replaced as executive vice president of Junipers Platform Systems Division by Rami Rahim, who currently leads the companys edge and aggregation routing ...
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Kumba Iron Ore(Kumba)confirms that production at the Company's Sishen Mine continues to ramp up following the end of the illegal occupation of the mine by a small group of striking employees on Tuesday,16 October 2012.Sishen's normal shift ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 will mark"the end"of the computer industry's dominant OS due to increasing competition and choice sparked by alternatives,Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff predicted Friday. Windows 8 is a ...
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Supervalu Inc has booked a jump in second-quarter losses, driven by charges related to the supermarket group's turnaround plan. The company said its second-quarter net loss totalled US$111m in the three months, up from $60m in the ...
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Scientific testing by an independent laboratory has proven that a specialized laundering process, offered by UniFirst Corporation and used to disinfect and protect food industry garments, destroys pathogens known to cause nearly 90 million ...
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