The National Basketball Association (NBA) and sports footwear major Nike have announced an eight-year global merchandising and marketing partnership that will make Nike the official oncourt apparel provider beginning with the 2017-18 NBA ...
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Three major tobacco companies in the US have dropped their lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over pre-approval for modifications in labelling. The FDA has previously regulated that the tobacco companies required to ...
Grupo Modelo, an arm of beverage major Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev, will pump in $325m in two plants in Yucatan, Mexico, including an aluminum beer-can unit. The cans manufactured at the new unit will replace those being currently ...
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Sustainability - we often hear about this, but what does it really mean? It means changing the way we think about how we use our resources and make small changes that have a big impact on nature and community. To this cause and with a ...
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The UK's second biggest cigarette company Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has joined the fray, filing a lawsuit against the government's mandate for plain packaging. JTI's suit follows similar actions taken by Philip Morris ...
Automobile manufacturers Nissan and BMW have joined hands for building a grid for charging stations to be used by electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) across South Africa. As part of the Memorandum of Understanding ...
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Japanese automobile technology firm FOMM is scouting for a local partner to set up an electric vehicle plant in Thailand, picturing the country as a hub for European exports. The unit, estimated to entail an investment of $10m, would ...
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Advanced infotainment systems, over-the-air (OTA) updates, big data analytics, mobility services and in-car security are key technologies that will shape the global connected car market in 2015. Human machine interface (HMI) input and ...
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Seaboard Foods and Triumph Foods have formed a joint venture to construct a new pork processing facility in Sioux City, Iowa. The site work is expected to begin this summer and construction wil be completed by July 2017. The plant is ...
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Confectionery producer Kinh Do is planning to build a new instant noodle plant worth $30m in northern province of Bac Ninh, Vietnam, under a partnership with Saigon Ve Wong. Both the companies have signed an agreement to form a joint ...
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China's state-owned oil giants Sinopec and China National Petroleum Corp. this month started up dedicated shale gas pipelines that will facilitate deliveries from the only commercial shale gas projects in the country to date as the ...
Mamee TGU Factory, a joint venture between Mamee-Double Decker Sendirian Berhad and Top Golden Universe (TGU), will construct an instant noodles and snack foods factory at the Industrial Valley in King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC), Saudi ...
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Nordic fashion and textile industry is set to become the most sustainable in the world. The vision of a new Nordic action plan presented by the Nordic Ministers for the Environment in Copenhagen earlier this week is for the region to ...
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China's small and micro enterprises saved 24 billion yuan ($3.92 billion) in the first quarter of 2015 due to preferential tax policies, the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) said on Monday. Statistics from SAT showed that a total of ...
China plans to bring forward the introduction of National Phase 5 motor gasoline and gasoil emission standards nationwide by one year to January 1, 2017, the State Council said Tuesday, April 28. All 11 provinces in eastern China will ...
Tags: National Phase 5, Motor Gasoline