Façonnable continues its bullish retail roll out by tapping into the strong momentum of the Baltic basin, opening a boutique in Lithuania and one in Latvia. A further seal on Façonnable’s strong presence in Eastern ...
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Global carpet tile manufacturer Interface, Inc. and conservation charity the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) are celebrating the successful completion of a pilot project and the start of a commercial venture with both conservation and ...
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Direct Line Group (DLG) has appointed IT consulting firm Capgemini as a partner in a five year contract to design, deliver and run a new IT infrastructure, as it looks to move away from RBS's data centres. The £100m deal, which ...
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Producer prices in the euro area in November 2012 decreased as expected. Eurostat announced in Luxembourg on Monday (January 7) in November 2012 that the Euro zone producer prices fell 0.2% monthly rate, which was consistent with bank ...
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Australian shares rose slightly yesterday as global equity markets remained supported by tentative signs of improvement in China's economy. Fund managers tipped continued yield-based demand for Australian equities in particular, although ...
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The Australian market closed higher after a day of consolidation with gains across most of the board. At the close today the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 10.2 points, or 0.22 per cent at 4719.7, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...
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Qatar First Investment Bank (QFIB) has sold its 71.3% stake in Emirates National Factory of Plastic Industries (ENPI Group), a producer of flexible and rigid plastic packaging solutions to Saudi Printing & Packaging (SPPC). The ...
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The Australian dollar fell, despite getting a boost from a 2 per cent surge on the Shanghai share market during the local trading day. At 5pm AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at 105.56 US cents, down from Friday's local close of ...
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Vendor earnings, market research reports and the International CES in Las Vegas this week highlighted the hardware arena, which appears to be a tale of two sectors with very different fates: PCs and mobile devices. The PC market continues ...
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The Australian dollar was slightly higher ahead of a speech by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. At 6.30am AEDT the currency was trading at 105.68 US cents, up from 105.56 US cents at yesterday’s local close. The currency ...
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Canada-based Sun Life Financial and Malaysian investor Khazanah Nasional are planning to acquire life insurer CIMB Aviva in Malaysia, in a deal valued at MYR1.8bn ($596m). Both firms will jointly purchase 98% of the life insurer in order ...
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Cyber attacks on U.S. banks over the last several months reflect a frightening new era in cyber warfare, according to security expert Darren Hayes, who says that corporations are unprepared to battle such attacks because of a shortage of ...
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Qassim Cement Co increased net profits by 1.46% in 2012 to $149.6m. The company, which is based in the city of Buraydah, said that net profits for the fourth quarter of the year dipped by 2.1%, however, to $38.1m. It blamed this on the ...
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Head of licensing Darran Garnham (left) and senior consumer products manager Sam Ferguson (right) reveal how they're growing the Moshi Monsters brand even further with Poppet. Why licence out the Poppet Moshi Monster in particular and ...
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In accordance with the accounting procedures of the gross domestic product (GDP), according to the 2011 Statistical Yearbook and departmental accounting, financial accounts data, on the basis of the preliminary verification, the NBS made ...
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