Sofa giant CSL has completed a wholesale rebrand as it revealed it is on target to reach sales of £100m for the first time. By Christmas all 26 of the firm's stores will be operating as Sofaworks as part of the family-owned retailer's ...
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Aleksandar Vulin, Minister in charge of Kosovo and Metohija in the Government of Serbia, has inaugurated a garment manufacturing factory in Zitkovac, near Zvecan. Inaugurating the factory, owned by Ivanjica-based textile company ...
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Rosneft began handling and installing oversize equipment at its Kuibyshev, Syzran, Achinsk, Komsomolsk and Angarsk refineries in early December, following the unique transport operations, one of which was noted in the Russian and European ...
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John Lewis has announced plans to open a 45,000 sq ft at home store in Horsham as early as autumn 2015. The shop, adjoining Waitrose in the new West End development owned by Westrock and the British Airways Pension Fund, will be the third ...
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President Obama projected that 2014 would be a "breakthrough year" for the U.S. economy. "We head into next year with an economy that's stronger than it was when we started the year," Obama said Dec. 20 at the White House during his final ...
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US-based food security company Blumberg Grain has been awarded a project by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to expand food security and storage in the African country. The new project will see deployment ...
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The chief economist for the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) predicts that the construction industry will add as many as 300,000 new jobs next year to decisively rebound from a recession that had crippled it. This could mean ...
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German carmaker BMW Group has started construction of a new manufacturing plant in Araquari, Brazil. This move by the automotive giant is aimed at achieving balanced growth in several markets. With this new plant, the group is further ...
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BASF, the world's leading chemical company, will build a compounding plant for engineering plastics Ultramid® (polyamide) and Ultradur® (polybutylene terephthalate, PBT) compounds in Yesan, Chung Nam Province, Korea. The new plant ...
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API today welcomed a report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasting record-breaking production of domestic oil and natural gas, which will dramatically increase U.S. energy security. "America is in the midst of a ...
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Tackling excess capacity will be one of the top tasks on China's economic agenda in 2014, as the issue becomes a major challenge to maintaining the pace and quality of economic growth. "The Chinese economy still faces downward pressure ...
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The District of Columbia has selected Citelum to manage and upgrade the city's 71,000 street lights to a state-of-the-art, sustainable system. The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced today that it has awarded Washington's ...
Tags: LED street lighting, Street Lighting, Lights, Lighting
Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate is geared up to invest around $48m in Belgian chocolate production facility in Mouscron, in a move to double the capacity over the next two years. The new production lines at the facility are scheduled to become ...
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Bridgestone do Brasil Industria e Comercio, a subsidiary of Japanese automotive parts maker Bridgestone, is set to invest $63m to expand its tire manufacturing plant in Cama ari, Bahia, Brazil. The increased production at this plant is ...
Glanbia, an Irish nutritional solutions and cheese firm, has outlined plans to develop a new Ultra-Heat-Treated (UHT) plant in Monaghan. The proposed plant will manufacture long-life liquid milk and cream, including export versions of ...
Tags: UHT Plant, nutritional solutions