In an ongoing effort to defend its rights and ownership of the Havana Club rum brand and trademark in the US, Bacardi has filed an amended complaint with the US District Court for the District of Columbia. This filing amends the original ...
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Pinnacle Foods has completed its acquisition of Boulder Brands. Following the completion of its successful tender offer to purchase all outstanding Boulder shares for $11.00 per share in cash, Pinnacle acquired all remaining Boulder ...
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The world's stock markets are spiralling downwards. The U.S. equity market fell 10 percent last month. Investor terminology calls this a "correction" not a crash. But prospects don't look good. Big investors, banks and financial ...
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In midsummer 2015, the so-called South China Sea arbitration hearing that the Philippines had been clamoring for and brewing in the past two years finally started. Recently, the relevant arbitral tribunal held this so-called hearing in The ...
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Nike has spent $380 million on the expansion of its headquarters, and hired over 2,000 new employees there, the Portland Business Journal reported. Last week, Nike’s general counsel informed Gov. Kate Brown that the sportswear ...
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Charter NEX Films, a producer of high-performance polyethylene films, has completed the acquisition of Optimum Plastics, Inc. in an all-cash transaction for an undisclosed amount. Charter NEX supplies flexible packaging converters with a ...
Soitec of Bernin, near Grenoble, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers, says that it is defending its rights in an investigation by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) instituted on 18 ...
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The World Trade Organization (WTO)’s Appellate Body has ruled in favoured Mexico over the US in a trade dispute, stating that the US requirement for dolphin-safe tuna labels was discriminatory to Mexican fishermen. The latest ...
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US-based packaged foods company ConAgra Foods plans to split the company into two independent public companies – with one handling the consumer portfolio of various brands and the other managing its foodservice portfolio of frozen ...
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Irish nutrition company Glanbia has agreed to acquire US-based health-based snacks maker thinkThin for $217m in cash. thinkThin offers a variety of protein snack bars for consumers seeking convenient, delicious yet wholesome snacks. ...
The 19th China-U.S. Legal Exchange Seminar, jointly sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, the Legislative Affair Office of the State Council and the U.S.Department of Commerce, was held in Beijing and Wuhan on January 13-15, 2015, ...
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The press conference on 2015 China International Fair for Investment & Trade (CIFIT) was held in Beijing on August 12, 2015. Vice Mayor of Xiamen city Ni Chao circulated the preparatory work for the CIFIT 2015 and invited business and media ...
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Quirky (“Quirky”) and its affiliates (together, the “Company”) announced today that it filed a voluntarily petition under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern ...
Microwave and semiconductor devices supplier M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings (MACOM) has inked a pact to divest its automotive business to safety systems firm Autoliv in a deal valued at $100m. MACOM's automotive operations ...
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Multi brand online retailer Bluestem Group completed acquisition of Orchard Brands Corporation, also an online retailer of multi-brand family of 13 catalogue and ecommerce brands. The deal, according to a Bluestem Group press release, has ...
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