Finnish wave energy developer, Wello Ltd, has received better than expected results in tests of its Penguin wave energy converter installed in Orkney, Scotland. The Penguin has now been tested in operations with different wave conditions ...
The domestic renewable energy industry has condemned the Government's suggestion to do away with the 2008 Planning and Energy Act. The Act, promoted by Michael Fallon, who is now Energy Minister, provides local authorities with the ...
Tags: renewable energy, Energy
Whitworths, the dried fruit, nut and seed supplier, has received a big cash boost after private equity firm Equistone Partners Europe Fund IV acquired a major stake in the Midlands-based firm. Equistone Partners investment will enable ...
Tags: Fruit, Nut, Agriculture, Food
Over the weekend at the Liberal Democrat party conference, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced that England will follow Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland in charging shoppers for bags. Speaking to Packaging News, Incpen ...
Advanced test instrumentation has helped a UK-based solar PV specialist to significantly improve the electricity supply on two off-grid Hebridean Islands. Renewables specialist Wind & Sun Ltd. has recently completed two new innovative ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
China's business activity surged to a 17-month high in August, providing fresh evidence that the protracted economic slowdown in China may be bottoming out. Industrial production gained 10.4 percent from a year earlier, picking up from ...
Tags: Steel Leads, Steel Sector
Equistone Partners Europe, a private equity firm, has acquired a majority stake in Whitworths, a UK-based supplier of dried fruit, nut and seed products, from European Capital in a deal which valued the company at £90m. Whitworths, ...
Tags: Whitworths, Equistone Partners
According to reports this morning (Saturday 14 September), Clegg will announce at this weekend's Liberal Democrat party conference that the charge has been adopted as government policy and will be introduced in 2015. Money from the charge ...
Breweries in Scotland grew by more than 10% over the past one year, primarily due to rise in demand for local food and drink apart from change in customer preference to buy small artisan brands. Eight new breweries debuted in the past ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Preliminary testing of 'data matching' for electoral registration has demonstrated that it makes it simpler for individuals to register to vote, the Cabinet Office has said. Individual Electoral Registration (IER) is a new system which ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Before the invention of the refrigerator, icehouses were used to provide cool storage for most of the year. Placed near freshwater lakes or packed with snow and ice during the winter, they were once very common. Natural means are still used ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Refrigerator, frige
Sydney’s Cross City Tunnel is facing receivership for the second time in seven years. The Tunnel’s owners are required to refinance the project to the tune of $79 million by September 30, however an unpaid stamp duty bill ...
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The design agency's brief was to create the strategy, brand identity, naming, brand language, structure and graphics. The brand, called The Gild, needed to be authentic and Western. Rory Fegan, senior strategist at Pearlfisher said: "The ...
Arthur J Gallagher, an Illinois-based insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, has signed a deal to purchase the Giles Group of Companies (Giles) of London for an undisclosed amount. Giles is an independent retail broker ...
Tags: Arthur J Gallagher, Giles Group
Abbott has unveiled preliminary results from a study that is being carried out by the University of Edinburgh researchers on the company’s Architect Stat High Sensitive Troponin-I (hsTnI) test, at ESC (European Society of Cardiology) ...