Green office supplies (my Hub page on the topic) are the topic of the day on this Earth Day. I’m not a huge fan of multi-billion dollar government-run programs to subsidize things or thrust such burdens on us as consumers or business ...
Tags: Office Supplies, Earth Friendly Office, Green Office Supplies
Unusual weather around the world, including the drought this summer in the US, has led Fonterra CEO Theo Spierings to forecast an increase in global dairy prices in the first half of 2013. Spierings also pointed to weather events in ...
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TORONTO — In its first report since becoming a public company last month, retailer the Hudson's Bay Co. said its third quarter loss widened slightly, although same store sales on both sides of the border were stronger than ...
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Australian roofs now have a solar power generating capacity equivalent to half the Snowy Hydro scheme as consumers react to soaring power prices and sinking prices for photovoltaic(PV)panels. First solar farm opens in WA Some 858,000 ...
Tags: Australian, PV, China, solar, energy
Over the past few years much has been said about the amazing economic and industrial growth achieved by China.Let's be honest,China's growth has been absolutely remarkable and is the envy of the world.In 2010 China became the world's ...
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US own-label group Ralcorp Holdings, which today (27 November) agreed to a takeover bid from ConAgra Foods, returned to profit in its fiscal 2012 year, boosted by acquisitions made during the year. In the 12 months to the end of ...
Tags: Foods, Foods industry, profit, operating profit
Australian manufacturing activity contracted for the ninth straight month in November due mainly to an ongoing decline in new orders and production. The latest Australian Industry Group Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index ...
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Spanish food group Ebro Foods has recorded an increase in profit in the first nine months of the year driven by the integration of businesses acquired last year and innovation. Ebro posted a net profit of EUR110m (US$141.6m) in the ...
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Global snacks group Mondelez International has revealed an R&D site in New Jersey is still closed in the wake of the super storm Hurricane Sandy that swept across the eastern parts of the US this week. Food manufacturers that shut ...
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Russian meat processor Cherkizovo has reported a jump in first-half earnings as profits from each of its three businesses increased. Net income was up 56% to RUB2.95bn (US$94.4m) for the period to the end of June. Operating income ...
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LED chip,lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has announced the commercial availability of XLamp XB-D color LEDs and XLamp XM-L multi-color LEDs,providing lighting manufacturers with discrete and multi-color LED options ...
US retailer Family Dollar Stores has booked an increase in third-quarter profits, boosted by higher sales. In the three months ended 28 May, net profit increased 12.1% to US$124.5m. Operating profit grew 8.2% to $199.4m. Net sales ...
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Ellison's company was contractually obliged to continue to support Itanium, judge rules Oracle could be facing a multi-billion dollar payout after a judge ruled it must continue to develop software for HP's products that use Itanium ...
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Superior Copper Corporation announced that it intends to complete a best efforts non brokered private placement financing of up to 6,000,000 hard dollar units at a price of USD 0.10 per HD Unit and up to 10,000,000 flow through units at a ...
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Only six major players expected to spend more on capex in 2012 than in 2011 IC Insights' latest research reveals that just six of the 35 major semiconductor suppliers are expected to collectively spend about $5.2bn more in 2012 than in ...
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