Nokia has relaunched its highly-rated Here Maps application on the Google Play Store. The Finnish firm, free from the shackles of creating hardware following the Microsoft buyout, has been turning its attention to software with Maps at ...
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German wine seller Hawesko is looking for an alternative buyer for its proposed buyout after rejecting takeover offer by Detlev Meyer. Hawesko's management board said that a 40-euro-per-share takeover bid by by Tocos Beteiligung and its ...
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For the thirteen weeks period ended November 1, 2014, net loss at clothing retailer Aeropostale more than doubled year on year as a result of huge amount of after tax charges. The retailer reported a net loss for the third quarter of 2014 ...
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French yogurt maker Danone is contemplating sale of its 20% stake in Tokyo based dairy-drink producer Yakult Honsha, which if materialised, can raise cash for any future acquisitions by Danone. Bloomberg reported that Danone already had ...
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It’s the world’s largest manufacturer of carton packaging for the food and beverage industry. Toronto private equity firm, Onex Corporation, the largest buyout firm in Canada, has agreed to buy SIG Combibloc from Rank Group New ...
Speaking to Packaging News, Kerridge said that he hadn’t left the company but was in the process of overseeing a “managed transition” of his responsibilities to GPI. He said: “This has been mutually agreed and ...
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Canadian buyout firm Onex is said to be leading the bidding for Switzerland-based juice-box maker SIG Combibloc Group. Onex is competing against Swiss private-equity firm Partners Group Holding in the final round. It is being speculated ...
Posted in Orthopedics by Nancy Crotti on November 18, 2014 Zimmer Holdings Inc. (ZMH) has agreed to extend the European Commission’s review of its pending $13.4-billion merger with Biomet, Inc. “by a limited number of ...
US-based buyout firm Lindsay Goldberg will sell German packaging company Weener Plastik for approximately $500m (€400m), as per a report by Reuters. Reuters quotes that rival buyout firms including CD&R, Ardian, Charterhouse and ...
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Myanma Economic Holdings (MEHL), which is controlled by Myanmar military, has won an arbitration case against Singapore-based beverage producer Fraser and Neave for the acquisition of latter's stake in Myanmar Brewery. MEHL was seeking ...
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Emperador Distillers, the Philippines-based hard liquor unit of Alliance Global Group, has completed the previously announced acquisition of Diageo’s Whyte & Mackay whiskey business for £430m. Scope of the transaction also ...
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As a new foreign trade form, cross border e-Commerce has developed rapidly in the recent years. B2B mode of cross border E-Commerce will be even more promising. In the near future, Chinese cross border e-Commerce will transform from B2C to ...
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One Equity Partners (OEP) will go ahead with the sale of Austrian flexible packaging company Constantia Flexibles after it failed to list the company on the stock exchange. JP Morgan owns 50% of OEP and has received expressions of ...
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Three buyout groups - BC Partners, Onex and Partners Group - will bid for Switzerland-based carton manufacturer SIG Combibloc which is owned by New Zealand’s Reynolds. SIG was acquired by New Zealand-based businessman Graeme Hart ...
Mondelez International, an American multinational confectionery, food and beverage conglomerate, has named Brian Gladden, 49, as their new chief financial officer. Gladden, a former CFO of Dell, will be assuming office from December 1. ...
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