Irish co-op The Irish Dairy Board is to supply own-label butter to Tesco stores in four markets in central and eastern Europe. The IDB said the EUR20m(US$25.6m)deal will see it produce private-label products for Tesco in the Czech ...
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Sears Canada Inc.announced its unaudited third quarter results.Total revenues for the 13-week period ended October 27,2012 were$1,037.5 million compared to$1,113.2 million for the 13-week period ended October 29,2011,a decrease of 6.8%.Same ...
Canadian retailer Metro Inc has reported higher annual profits - and seen sales in its most recent quarter outstrip rival Loblaw. Metro's full-year earnings were boosted by its acquisition of local rival Marché Adonis and higher ...
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CIO - Banking is typically regarded as a boring service, maybe even a necessary evil. So you might be surprised to find out that customers have strong feelings when they perform banking transactions. In a joint project between its IT ...
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IDG News Service-Cisco Systems and Qualcomm are putting their considerable wireless weight behind a system to make it easier for retail stores and other venues to offer information to visitors over Wi-Fi. Many shops,airports and other ...
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New Zealand meat processor Silver Fern Farms has booked a loss in the year to the end of September as higher lamb prices hit global demand. The company racked up a net operating loss of NZ$31.1m (US$25.4m) in the 12-month period, down ...
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HMS Group issued the following statement regarding orders received during Q3 2012. Highlights In Q3 2012, order intake under management accounts more than doubled, up 149% YoY and amounted to Rub 10.9 bn (USD 356 mn [1]) versus Rub 4.4 bn ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S. Air Force has decided to scrap a major ERP (enterprise resource planning) software project after spending US$1 billion, concluding that finishing it would cost far too much more money for too little gain. ...
A compact fluorescent light bulb uses about 75 percent less energy than the old-fashioned kind and lasts up to 10 times longer. They may cost more upfront, but a net savings of $25 during the life of each bulb has spurred American ...
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Kohl's Corporation reported third quarter diluted earnings per share increased 14%to$0.91 per diluted share.Net income was$215 million compared to$211 million($0.80 per diluted share)a year ago.Net sales were$4.5 billion,an increase of ...
Everspin Technologies today announced what it is calling the industry's first Spin-Torque Magnetoresistive RAM(ST-MRAM)chip,which offers an alternative to non-volatile DRAM sub systems. Everspin said the new memory type is not targeted to ...
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Following on from a successful meeting with over thirty agriculture students of the University of Sydney recently, CEO Adam Kay attended the presentation of fourth year thesis projects at the university. A number of students had conducted ...
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Maidenform Brands Inc.,a global branded marketer of intimate apparel,reported third quarter 2012 net sales of$150.2 million,an increase of 1.3%over the third quarter of 2011.Reported EPS was$0.46 for the third quarter of 2012 compared to ...
Computerworld-A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of a provision in a just-enacted California state law that requires all registered sex-offenders to immediately turn over the all of their Internet identifiers and the names ...
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You may not have heard, but BMW now offers its luxurious 5 Series sedan as hybrid. We recently spent a few days with a BMW ActiveHybrid 5 to see if it lives up to the promise and share our first impressions. The car was borrowed from ...
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