Scottish food manufacturer Browns Food Group has acquired the Hall's brand from Dutch multi-national Vion for an undisclosed sum, safeguarding 50 jobs. Browns' aquisition of the Hall's brand has saved 50 jobs Browns finance director ...
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Soft fruit packager of Scotland, WH Porter has turned to a Proseal GT2 tray sealer for its whole production after the demonstration of the machine’s capability to cope with tough production line demands. The Proseal GT2, a fully ...
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UK-based Orkney Brewery, a subsidiary of Sinclair Breweries, has produced Norseman Pale Ale for Shetland-based wholesale firm J.W. Gray & Co. The 4.4%ABV drink will be available in golden coloured bottles, is expected to be light in taste ...
Sainsbury's has announced that its new store in Leek, Staffordshire, will be run by an LED lighting system that promises to cut down on energy consumption by around 60 per cent. The firm said it is using the energy efficient ceiling ...
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Octopus Investments (Octopus) in partnership with Lightsource Renewable Energy (Lightsource), its dedicated in-house solar development company, has announced that it had successfully secured funding from The Royal Bank of Scotland Corporate ...
A device developed by engineers at The University of Manchester and EPL Composite Solutions Ltd. promises to dramatically increase the capacity of the United Kingdom’s electricity network, while enabling rapid increases in renewable ...
The Co-operative Bank could write-down up to £200m of IT investments if it finalises a proposed acquisition of 632 Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) branches. The Co-op Bank's annual profits could be impacted significantly if its ...
According to the British Retail Consortium footfall in December was 1.2 per cent lower than in 2011, despite seeing a 0.4 per cent rise last November. The UK’s worst-hit locations this December were the North & Yorkshire, down ...
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I was going to write about Educational Technology, as Bett (the world’s leading educational technology event) is happening in London at the end of the month. I also considered writing about the Education World Forum, which is linked ...
The ABP Food Group claims to have found the source of the horse meat in the burgers produced at its Silvercrest Foods facility in Ireland and has halted production at the site in County Monaghan. Tesco published full-page apologies to its ...
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Halilit has hired two new experienced sales agents in time for Toy Fair. Matt Martin (left) will cover London and the South East, whilst Doug Wares (right) will be responsible for all of Scotland. Both agents will be selling all the ...
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Ineos in December converted its 240,000 mt/year C4 linear low-density polyethylene plant in Cologne, Germany, to metallocene LLDPE c6 production, industry sources have said. Ineos was not immediately available for comment. As a ...
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Virtual Flower lets you make animated 3D flowers, trees, geometrical shapes, and "star spheres", and 4D geometries. These can be embedded in web pages as VRML using the Cortona plugin, or exported as animations in various file formats. ...
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German retailer Lidl is to make a "multi-million pound" investment in 35-50 new UK stores this year. The discount retailer said today (16 January) the investment, which will expand its portfolio from the current 600 UK store count, is ...
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2013 got off to a spectacular start for Star Events Group (SEGL) with the event engineering and seating specialist providing stages and structures to three of the UK's leading New Year celebrations. Edinburgh's Hogmanay - celebrating the ...
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