Associated British Foods has insisted it expects the performance of its grocery division to improve in the medium term as investments made to reduce its cost base begin to feed through to the bottom line. The company today(24 April)booked ...
Tags: investments, cost, EBITA
ACCO Australia could substantially add to its product portfolio following the likely acquisition-cum-merger between ACCO and MeadWestvaco's consumer and office products division in the US. ACCO Australia is saying little about the Mead ...
Tags: ACCO, Mead deal, office products
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (7011), a Japanese maker of heavy machinery, will suspend construction of its wind turbine manufacturing plant in Fort Smith, Arkansas because of sluggish demand in the U. S. The decision came after the ...
Tags: market view, heavy machinery
Sunovia Energy, a troubled LED lighting firm in north Sarasota, has secured $5 million in fresh financing to increase capacity. The company had been in financial turmoil since early last year when the firm shifted its primary focus from ...
Tags: Market View, led light
Sunovia Energy, a troubled LED lighting firm in north Sarasota, has secured $5 million in fresh financing to increase capacity. The company had been in financial turmoil since early last year when the firm shifted its primary focus ...
Tags: led light
DieCast Connections Company Inc., Chicopee, Mass., has obtained a $300, 000 loan to hire six additional employees and purchase equipment and material in support of a new product. The nonferrous permanent mold and diecasting company obtained ...
Tags: Industry Trends, Casting
Agco Corp. (AGCO), the world’s third- largest farm machinery maker, and De Lage Landen International BV, a Dutch leasing company, set up a joint venture in Turkey, the country’s antitrust board said. The joint venture will be ...
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Another month or two, the public is expected to buy LED lights by the state financial subsidies. This reporter has learned, national semiconductor lighting products in 2012, financial subsidies to promote the project “bidding results ...
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Another month or two, the public is expected to buy LED lights by the state financial subsidies. This reporter has learned, national semiconductor lighting products in 2012, financial subsidies to promote the project “bidding results ...
The financing package of IDE Technologies’ Sorek desalination plant has been shortlisted to receive Global Water Intelligence’s 2011 Water Deal of the Year award. This prize is given annually by the water industry to any ...
Tags: market view, water treatment
The Saudi Industrial Development Fund (SIDF) has said SR674m ($180m) in loans have been approved to finance four industrial centres and four expansion projects in the kingdom, Reuters has reported. The loans include SR300m to increase ...
Tags: market view, cement
Following is the text of U. S. Non-manufacturing conditions from the Institute for Supply Management. Economic activity in the non-manufacturing sector grew in March for the 27th consecutive month, say the nation’s purchasing and ...
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On March 26, 2012, Taiwan regional authority of finance decided to conduct anti-dumping (AD) investigations into carbon-steel medium plates from South Korea and India, ordinary cold-rolled steels from China mainland and South Korea, and ...
Tags: Upper and lower price, Steel
According to Taiwan Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association (PIDA), Taiwan’s LED makers will likely benefit from Mainland China’s recent introduction of a subsidization program for LED lighting. According to ...
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Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has doled out some tax concessions for green products and pushed for measures to make agriculture sustainable. He has exempted solar plants and equipment from special countervailing duty (CVD) to encourage ...