Frozen poultry products manufacturer Maxi Canada has been acquired by Altamont Capital Partners, a San Francisco Bay Area based private investment firm, for an undisclosed price. Maxi Canada, which is based in St-Lin-Laurentides, Quebec, ...
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French yeast maker Lesaffre has acquired two companies to expand its presence in sourdoughs and baking ingredients market in Western Europe. The acquisitions include LFI Tollblend in United Kingdom and Tecno Bakery in Spain. Lesaffre ...
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China-based panel makers are making big investments in OLED technology, with EverDisplay Optronics (Shanghai) kicking off construction of a 6th-generation (6G) AMOLED factory. In addition to EverDisplay Optronics, China-based display panel ...
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Brown Forman, the maker of Jack Daniel's Tennesee Whiskey, has reported a decline in its second-quarter profit and sales. Net sales dropped 3% year-over-year to $830m. Reported operating income fell 4% in the quarter to $291m. Diluted ...
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Kavalan has commissioned its second distillery and launched an inaugural rum cask-aged whisky for Christmas. At the inauguration of the Kavalan Second Distillery, CEO Mr. Y.T. Lee said that onMarch 11, 2006, Kavalan's first ever "new ...
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After a few leaks, and no official announcement, Samsung has made its J1 Mini Prime 4-inch smartphone available in the US. The new handset is now available to buy through Amazon and eBay in the States, and can be picked up for a very ...
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First-tier China-based smartphone vendors Huawei Technologies, Oppo, Vivo and BBK, due to concerns that Apple may monopolize supplies of smartphone-use AMOLED panels from Samsung Display and Japan-based makers in the future, will cooperate ...
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Tomra Sorting Food has unveiled two new potato sorters in the ongoing Interpom-Primeurs 2016 trade fair in Belgium. The two sorters are dubbed Tomra 5A and Tomra 5B. While Tomra 5A sorts completely unpeeled and peeled process potatoes, ...
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Nutella and Tic Tac maker Ferrero International has announced to acquire some of the brands of UK based food manufacturer United Biscuits for an undisclosed sum. The Italian chocolatier is planning to buy Belgian cookies Delacre and ...
Volvo Cars has unveiled several important updates to its 90 series cars, delivering new safety, powertrain and connectivity updates. The Swedish carmaker’s smartphone integration offer, which already includes Apple CarPlay, will now ...
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Chinese-backed electric vehicle developer BYD America has launched the industry’s first all-electric, long-range electric garbage truck, a project jointly developed with Wayne Engineering, the Iowa-based refuse industry equipment ...
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Growing number of Chinese smartphone makers are raising investments in OLED panels, including BOE Technology Group and six other major local players have constructed new factories and invested in total more than 2 trillion Japanese Yen (US ...
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Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) has entered into an agreement to buy US-based frozen food manufacturer Bellisio Foods for $1.08bn. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Bellisio is a portfolio company of private equity firm Centre ...
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Russian chocolate company Ozersky Souvenir Company has launched a square shaped chocolate branded O’zera using packaging concept from Bradman Lake. The multinational company which deals in integrated packaging technology said that ...
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US based Key Technology has launched a new digital sorter line to improve quality of potato strips and specialty potato products by maximizing removal of foreign material and defects. Branded as VERYX, the digital sorter and intelligent ...
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