HJ Heinz has opened its new $70m infant cereal production plant in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, China, a move that will create 200 new jobs. The new plant, which is the company's largest infant cereal production plant across the ...
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British upholstery group Sofa Brands International has today launched research showing that almost half of the UK population wrongly believe that Britain’s manufacturing industry is on the decline. The research also shows that one in ...
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Drumheller Packaging is expanding its facility in Clarksdale, Mississippi, with a $360,000 corporate investment that is expected to create 20 new jobs. Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) and Coahoma County provided assistance for the ...
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Danone Nutricia Early Life Nutrition has opened its extended infant formula production line in Wexford, Ireland. The expansion forms part of the company's €180m investment programme in its Irish operations in Macroom and Wexford. ...
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General Motors is planning to invest $200 m at two of its plants in Michigan to prepare for its future vehicle program. In Orion Assembly plant, the compnay will invest $160 m for tooling and equipment while $40m will be invested in ...
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Convenience food producer Amy’s Kitchen is planning to expand production capacity by acquiring Heinz's former site in Pocatello, Idaho. The move in the wake of double-digit growth registered by the company in the past year. The ...
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Wisconsin-based Baker Cheese Factory is expanding its St. Cloud cheese production facility by investing $7m in equipment for its modernisation. Baker Cheese also proposes to invest in new waste water treatment plant to assist its whey ...
Amazon.com, one of the top global online retailers, is set to create 1,000 full-time jobs and invest US$ 75 million in its first facility in Illinois in 2015, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, Senator Dick Durbin, and Amazon have jointly ...
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Illinois-based KapStone Paper and Packaging will spend about $115m at its Cooper River site to modernise three papermaking machines and to make other improvements for increasing the capacity and efficiency. In a statement released on ...
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McDonald's has announced plans to open restaurants in Kazakhstan in 2015, in conjunction with a local developmental licensee, Kairat Boranbayev. Kazakhstan is McDonald's 120th global market and the 39th market that will be managed as a ...
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Bolton-based family-run furniture and home accessories company, Global Interiors, is set to dramatically expand its operation after receiving a £80k BFS Business Loan which is drawn from a £24m fund delivered by Business Finance ...
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To meet increasing sales in North America, global automotive supplier DENSO will open a new shipping warehouse in Nashville, Tennessee. "This new warehouse enables us to expand our capabilities to satisfy our customers and also support ...
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Mondelez International is planning to invest $50m to ramp up production of Tassimo beverage capsule in its coffee factory in Banbury, UK. The investment, which will be used in the construction of two new production lines at the ...
Linpac’s 16 plants throughout the world are about to get an Australian sibling. The UK packaging company is investing $22 million in its first Australian manufacturing headquarters, at Truganina, in Melbourne’s west. ...
Arla Foods, a Swedish-Danish cooperative firm, is seeking to expand a dairy plant in Germany, as part of a bid to build its organic business in the country. The company plans to grow capacity of the site in Upahl, in the north of the ...
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