Paint and coatings producer Valspar has signed a long term agreement to supply waterborne coating for shipping containers manufactured by Maersk Container Industry (MCI). Under the deal, Valspar will supply its Aquaguard waterborne ...
Beijing - Activity in China's vast factory sector grew at a milder pace in November as new export orders shrank, a preliminary survey showed on Thursday, bolstering expectations the economy could lose some of its vigor in the fourth quarter ...
Tags: PMI, Chinese economy
India-based Mahindra Intertrade, part of Mahindra Group, has announced that it has entered into a joint venture with Taiwan's China Steel Global Trading Corporation and Singapore-based Mitsui & Co. (Asia Pacific) Pte. Ltd to set up an ...
Tags: India, Mahindra, intertrade, auto, steel, service, center
Volcano Corporation (San Diego, CA) may be looking for a suitor as its stock has underperformed the expectations of many analysts. The company’s stock has lagged behind the S&P 500 and the Health Care Equipment & Supplies index in the ...
Tags: Volcano Corporation, Medicine
BMTC Group, Quebec's largest full-line furniture, mattress and major appliance retailer, has reported its fourth consecutive quarter of declining sales, a reflection of weakening consumer spending across the province. For the three months ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
As at the end of September, BWT increased its consolidated revenues by 1.4% from 380.0 million to 385.3 million. With a comparable Group structure (a plant engineering company in Ireland was sold in the first quarter), revenues growth would ...
Tags: BWT, report, 2013, three quarters
Increase will exceed EU, US and Japan combined, says IEA report China will see the biggest absolute increase in power generation from renewable energy in the next 20 years, more than the increase in the European Union, the United States ...
Tags: Renewable Energy
Norwegian softwood-lumber exports to the EU in the first half-year 2013 were more or less as they had been in the same period of last year. Eurostat data shows that deliveries of rough-sawn and planed softwood lumber amounted to 255,391 m3. ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Demand from China's galvanized steel sector is expected to account for 56% of the country's refined zinc consumption in 2014, up from 54% this year, state-owned nonferrous metals information division Beijing Antaike said Thursday. The ...
Tags: Galvanized Steel, Zinc Demand
Pressure on resources to force change Greener growth and energy efficiency will be the key words for the future development of China's manufacturing sector in the face of growing pressure on resources and costs, a senior industrial ...
Tags: energy efficiency, Greener growth, chemical industry, low carbon
China Construction Bank (CCB, SHSE: 601939, and SEHK: 0939), the biggest real estate and mortgage lender in the Chinese mainland, will control a 72 percent stake in Brazil-based Banco Industrial e Commercial S.A. (BIC). It said in the ...
58.com, a Chinese local classified- ad website, had its initial public offering (IPO) Thursday at New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with the IPO price of USD 17 a share. The shares closed at USD 24.31, representing an increase of 43%. The ...
Tags: Service, 58, web service
Chongqing Brewery Co., Ltd. (SHSE: 600132) announced on October 31 that its shareholder Carlsberg Brewery Hong Kong Limited was agreed by China Securities Regulatory Commission on a tender offer to the former. Carlsberg officially issued ...
CTBC Financial, the parent company of Chinatrust Commercial Bank, has announced plans to acquire the local insurance firm Taiwan Life in a TWD26.6bn ($904m) deal. As per the terms of the agreement, CTBC will take over the insurance firm ...
Tags: Insurance, CTBC Financial
Fuyao Glass Industry Group, China's largest automobile glass manufacturer, said on Wednesday it will invest $420 million to set up production bases in the United States and Russia, in a further step to tap into high-end overseas markets. ...
Tags: Glass, Transportation, Auto Parts