Global reinsurance firms Munich Re, Swiss Re and Hannover Re have started contract talks for 2014 with insurance firms, amid growing competition from pension funds, due to increased capital investment. The steady growth of investment by ...
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Danish engineering firm FL Smidth has confirmed reports in Qatari media that it is in talks to supply Qatari Investors Group with equipment and machinery to build a new cement plant to boost capacity in the region. However, the firm added ...
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CNOOC Limited announced that the Company, as part of a consortium comprised of Petrobras, Shell, Total and CNPC, has been awarded a 35-year production sharing contract to develop the Libra pre-salt oil discovery in the Santos Basin, ...
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National Real Estate Development and Sales in the First Nine Months of 2013 National Bureau of Statistics of China 2013-10-21 08:47:08 1. The completion of real estate investment The total investment in real estate development in the ...
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Austria-based steelmaker voestalpine has announced that it is building Europe's most modern wire rolling mill at its Leoben-Donawitz site in Austria. The company expects to complete the construction by 2016. The wire rolling mill will ...
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It is learned that Iranian company Yahan Fulad has signed contract with Iranian-German Company MMTE and Iranian-Italian company Tenova, which agreed to build a new mill at Siryan City. This investment costs around €79 million totally ...
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The average lifecycle of new consumer electronics products such as tablets, smartphones and notebooks, has shrunk significantly to only about three months currently, down from six months originally, according to sources from the upstream ...
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China's Dalian Commodity Exchange on Friday launched the country's first iron ore futures with physical delivery, which ended the trading day with smooth performance. The May 2014 contract, the most actively traded of the day, rising 1.77 ...
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Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting, has been selected by the government of the city of Buenos Aires to renew its street lighting system with LED technology. Philips will replace the majority of the 125,000 existing street lights ...
ANTA Sports Products Limited, a leading branded sportswear enterprise in China, is pleased to announce that the Company has signed an endorsement contract with Rajon Rondo, a new generation NBA superstar and starting point guard for the ...
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Belkin Corp., a maker of smartphone cases and computing accessories, aims to launch a product with annual sales volume of over one million units in the Chinese market firstly. Ben Thacker, vice president responsible for commercial ...
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The Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) is pleased to announce the release of the newly revised SMRP Standardized Metrics. The revisions feature the highly anticipated "best in class target values," which provide ...
New China Life (SHSE: 601336) recorded original insurance premium of CNY 72.27 billion from January 1 to September 30 based on the insurance contract-related accounting rules issued by the Ministry of Commerce.
First Milk, a UK-based dairy producer, has unveiled plans to close its cheese packing plant in Marchwiel, Wrexham, while putting 231 jobs at risk. The plant is scheduled to shut in May 2014, and this move comes as the company lost a ...
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Leading national and international haulage company, TAS Transport, has placed one of the first orders with Renault Trucks for a new Euro 6 Range T tractor unit. The Renault T460 6x2 with sleeper cab will be delivered in January 2014, ...
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