Lowe's Home Centers, one of the nation's largest home improvement retailers, has agreed to implement a comprehensive, corporate-wide compliance program at its over 1,700 stores nationwide to ensure that the contractors it hires to perform ...
Tags: EPA, certification, Construction
The Victoria PLC Board is pleased to announce that the Group's profits before tax and exceptional items are likely to be ahead of market expectations for the full year to 29 March 2014, as a result of continued improvements in like-for-like ...
Tags: Carpet Maker, BoD
Hamburg-based secondary research organization yStats.com reports in its new publication "Global Cross-Border B2C E-Commerce 2014" that the interconnectedness of the world through the Internet is providing opportunities for online merchants, ...
Tags: E-Commerce, Online Retailers
Chico's FAS, Inc., and its family of brands – Chico's, White House Black Market, Soma, and Boston Proper – announce the launch of its fourth May is For Miracles campaign, a multi-faceted program to raise funds for the 170 ...
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US-based coal producer Walter Energy, Inc. has announced that it will begin idling its Canadian operations, including the Wolverine and Brazion coal mines in British Columbia, this month, due to the unfavorable coal pricing environment. ...
Tags: Coal Mines, Walter Energy, mine
Packaging Dynamics, a flexible packaging company, has acquired the US-based Pac Paper's business operations, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of Pac Paper, which manufactures and sells a range of specialty paper packaging products, ...
Iron ore prices are likely to drop to $115/dry mt CFR China this year, lower than Q1's $120.68/dmt average, forcing as much as 70-80 million mt/year of high-cost Chinese supplies to shut, Standard Bank said Monday. Iron ore reference ...
Tags: Iron Ore, iron ore demand
Canada's total crude oil output is expected to reach 3.9 million b/d in 2015, some 500,000 b/d more than the current output, driven primarily by small in-situ oil sands developments, each typically 35,000-40,000 b/d, an industry official ...
Tags: Oil Output, oil sands
Recently, Spiroflow Systems worked with Access Security Products Ltd. to resolve a powder handling problem with a proprietary cement mixture used in its manufacturing process. Access Security Products manufactures and supplies burglary- and ...
Tags: Security Products
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced the LS Series linear LED luminaire, designed to replace the hundreds of millions of fluorescent strip, wrap and industrial fixtures currently installed in ...
Tags: Cree LED lighting fixtures, LED chip, LED, Electrical, Electronics
POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Canada – which, through subsidiary OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT, USA, has developed the proprietary planar-optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic ...
Tags: POET, Electrical, Electronics
Gourmet Garden's new Lightly Dried Herbs Australian herb company Gourmet Garden has launched a new Lightly Dried Herb range, made with Australian organically grow herbs that have been washed, roughly chopped and lightly dried. According ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Herb
Dairy products maker Saputo has acquired the fluid milk business of Scotsburn Co-Operative Services for $61m. Scotsburn Co-Operative offers fluid milk, cream, sour cream, ice cream mix and cottage cheese, primarily under the Scotsburn ...
Tags: Milk, Agriculture, Food, Dairy
The figures will be available exclusively from MarvelStore.com and DisneyStore.com Marvel Select and the Disney Store are launching a series of exclusive Captain America: The Winter Soldier action figures. An alternative to the high end ...
Tags: toys
Viterra Inc. ("Viterra"), Canada's grain industry leader, is pleased to announce that it is executing on a transformative series of operational improvements and upgrades at its Pacific Terminal at Port Metro Vancouver. The project is ...
Tags: grain industry, Viterra, Pacific Terminal