As previously communicated, in the face of increasingly difficult domestic trading conditions for its soda ash business, Penrice Soda Holdings Limited has been conducting a strategic review of its entire chemicals business to improve its ...
Tags: Penrice, JV, Soda Ash Distributor
Self-adhesive technology specialist Herma has appointed Melbourne-based Result Packaging as the exclusive sales partner to sell and market its self-adhesive materials in Australia. Herma managing director Dr Thomas Baumg?rtner said the ...
The rear-wheel-drive V6- and V8-equipped Hyundai Genesis sedan is being strongly considered for an Australian introduction, following confirmation that the next generation model will be built in right-hand-drive. Speaking at the North ...
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Mercedes-Benz is still investing in future diesel passenger cars despite continuous improvements in petrol engines and ongoing mainstreaming of hybrid technologies. Speaking to CarAdvice at the Detroit auto show this week, the head of ...
The world's largest consumer tech show last week was mostly about new ultra-high-definition TVs, with four times the pixel resolution of current 1080p HDTV, notebooks, phones, wireless headphones and speakers and thousands of accessory ...
Tags: CES, smartphone, car gadgetry
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 ...
Tags: China, shares, global equity markets, economy
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 ...
Tags: Australian market, gains, consolidation
The future of Fiat and Alfa Romeo in Australia is looking brighter than ever with the Italian brands expecting to substantially increase their sales over the coming years with a revamped line-up and a repositioning of the Italian ...
Tags: Fiat, Alfa Romeo, February
Italian brand Fiat will potentially look at exporting vehicles from its Indian operations to Australia in an attempt to increase traction and improve availability of right-hand-drive cars for our market. Speaking with the media at ...
The Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class has been officially launched today at the 2013 Detroit auto show in the motor city. A compact four-door coupe, the Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class follows the idea of the larger and significantly more expensive CLS ...
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The sharemarket had it biggest fall in five weeks yesterday, with financial, material and industrial stocks leading the decline as global equity markets lost momentum following strong gains last week after the resolution of the US ...
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The sharemarket ended the year on a sour note, falling for the first time in four days as the continuing US fiscal policy impasse weighed on market sentiment. However, the sell-off was limited by improved manufacturing data from China and ...
Tags: Local Stocks, Fears, US, Fiscal Impasse
AUSTRALIAN stocks are set to rise today after the US avoided falling over its fiscal cliff -- at least for now -- and iron ore prices unexpectedly ended the year in positive territory. US tax and spending cuts due to start on January 1 ...
Tags: US, tax, spending cuts, market confidence
Music Group has announced the appointment of Galactic Music as their distributor for Behringer, Bugera and Eurocom products in Australia. Effective immediately Galactic will assume all responsibility for sales, distribution and service to a ...
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The head of the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI), Tony Weber, has criticised the general media for its reporting on the local industry, claiming that local manufacturing is competitive by today’s standards. ...
Tags: Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries, overall new-car sales