With oil prices still elevated and operator appetite for offshore drilling seemingly limitless, Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 227 appears headed for vigorous bidding and dollar totals that may match or even surpass 2012's collective ...
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Automotive supplier Continental has launched new generation of brake boosters to reduce the weight of the vehicles. The company claims that the weight has been reduced by about 50% or 1,700gms compared to the classical steel brake ...
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Volvo has appointed Briton Robin Page, formerly head of interior design at Bentley, as its new interior design director. Before joining Volvo, Page was responsible for interior design at Bentley Motors for 12 years, overseeing the ...
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The UK market was at its seasonal low in February, although one should avoid any undue gloom…demand was entirely in line with expectations. Indeed, it may surprise you to note that January was actually up some 8% up on the same month ...
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ContiTech, a subsidiary of German automotive supplier Continental, has opened a new research and development (R&D) center in China with investments of about EUR8m. The center located at Changshu in Jiangsu Province will develop ...
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UK natural gas for same-day delivery rose to 108 pence/therm Monday morning -- a price the market has not closed above since 2006 -- due to unplanned North Sea outages. Stormy weather caused a failure in the Norwegian power grid system ...
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BMW Group and auto parts supplier Continental AG are developing unmanned vehicles. The main purpose of the research collaboration is to prepare for the 2020 autopilot technology application. Bilateral cooperation project starts from early ...
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Trek will donate $200 to a rural South African youth program for each Project One Trek sold with a special MTN-Qhubeka team paint job. "By purchasing an MTN-Qhubeka bike, riders will actually be buying two bikes; one for themselves and ...
BMW and Continental have launched their collaboration into autonomous driving technology with the goal of making accident-free mobility a reality by 2020. The two German automotive powerhouses will work together on the program over the ...
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German carmaker BMW and automotive supplier Continental have collaborated to work on the development and introduction of freeway-grade highly automated driving system on European freeways. In January 2013, both firms have signed an ...
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Wholesalesarong.com unveils the arrival of Kimono fashion tops as additions to their wholesale clothing product line for the spring season. Wholesalesarong.com today announces that its latest shipment of Kimono fashion tops has reached ...
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A night in a Royal Penthouse Suite at Geneva’s Hotel President Wilson costs a staggering $65,000, which makes the $195,100 Range Rover Vogue SDV8 seem like positively good value. Each is as palatial – and large – as the ...
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UK retailer Primark announces full year 2012 results -Revenue £3,503m (2011, £3,043m) -Adjusted operating profit £356m (2011, £309m) -Adjusted operating profit margin 10.2% (2011, 10.2%) -Return on average ...
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Luxury and fashionable women’s lingerie brand Van de Velde announces its annual results for year 2012. - Consolidated turnover rises by 1.1%. - A decrease in wholesale turnover, a slight fall in gross margin and an important ...
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England-based Burscough Brewery is planning to expand its brewery to meet the increasing demand. The company plans to move its brewing facility from its current base near the Hop Vine pub in Burscough to the the former Heaven Scent site ...
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