Euro Foods, a Wales-based food supplier to restaurants and specialist supermarkets, has acquired Brown Bear Food, a food packaging business in Cwmbran, for an undisclosed sum. Brown Bear, which operates from leased premises in Gwent, had ...
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The new 15,000 square foot toy store has created 30 new jobs in the area. Smyths Toys Superstores has extended its fleet of toyshops across the UK, opening its latest store in Derby. The store opened its doors at the Kingsway Retail ...
Mondelez International has unveiled plans to establish a new manufacturing facility in Novosibirsk region, Russia, with an investment of $110m. The company is pursuing its expansion plans in the region despite increasing geopolitical ...
A pioneering £31 million deal will be struck today (3 April) to make hydrogen vehicles a viable and environmentally friendly choice for motorists across Europe. Leading motor manufacturers, hydrogen fuel suppliers, the Mayor of ...
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Woolworths has announced new long-term milk supply contracts Australian supermarket giant Woolworths has announced two new 10-year milk contracts across Australia that it says "will give dairy farmers and processors more certainty to ...
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Fonterra Australia has secured a ten-year contract from Woolworths to supply and process the retailer’s own brand milk in Victoria. The deal allows farmers to further invest in their businesses as they have a guaranteed buyer for ...
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Mohawk is one of three finalists for the Clean Tech Innovation Award in the Metro Atlanta Chamber's E3 Environmental Awards for Atlanta area businesses. The E3 Awards highlight the companies, organizations and individuals working to ...
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German automaker BMW Group is set to invest $1bn to expand the production capacity at its Spartanburg plant in South Carolina by 2016. The plant currently producies BMW X3, X5, X5 M, X6 and X6 M models. The new expansion will see the ...
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International automotive supplier Continental celebrated in the end of March the 8,200 square meter expansion of its manufacturing facility located in Fletcher, North Carolina, USA. The 35 million US-Dollar investment added production and ...
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The number of businesses indicating they will hire staff in the months ahead has increased for a third consecutive quarter, supporting a view that underlying economic conditions are stable and that confidence is sound in spite of recent ...
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A textile industrial park is likely to come up in Nghia Hung district of Vietnam’s Nam Dinh province, and on completion it would become the largest textile park in Vietnam, reports Vietnam Plus. The industrial park would be set ...
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UK-based salads and sandwiches manufacturers Solway Foods will close its Corby factory in Northamptonshire with the loss of 900 jobs. Last week, the company had made 500 jobs redundant, and said that the remaining 400 would be laid-off ...
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Cavaghan & Gray, owned by UK-based 2 Sisters Food, has outlined plans to expand its ready meals production facility at Riverbank, Carlise, Cumbria. The expansion follows the company securing a new ready-to-cook fish meals supply contract. ...
Inditex's net sales increased by 5% in FY13 (1 February 2013 - 31 January 2014) to €16.7 billion. Sales in constant currency terms grew by 8% and like-for-like sales grew by 3% during the same period, on top of the 6% achieved in FY12. ...
London businesses and politicians have called on the government to scrap a planned hike in alcohol taxes to give the capital’s hospitality sector a boost. Pubs, producers, MPs and retailers joined the TaxPayers' Alliance and the ...
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