MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have slammed the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) for "alarmingly weak management" and a "shocking absence of control" in its handling of the Universal Credit welfare programme. The project, ...
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Energizer Holdings, Inc. announced the appointment of James C. Johnson to its Board of Directors effective November 3, 2013. Mr. Johnson has been appointed to the class of Directors whose term of office expires at Energizer's 2014 Annual ...
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Non-manufacturing activity continued to show solid growth in October, according to the Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) Non-Manufacturing Report on Business. The ISM's index to measure growth—the NMI—inched up 1.0 ...
Global steelmakers, metallurgical coal miners and merchant coke producers are feeling the heat thanks to sluggish steel and coal prices coupled with the prospect of higher energy costs in the US due to regulation, participants said Tuesday ...
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Affiliated Importers Ltd., a High Point-based supplier of upholstery frames and other goods to the furniture industry, has named three employees to new executive positions. Justin Shinn, now the company's president, was promoted from ...
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Oregon-based Deschutes Brewery is all set to extend the distribution of its beers to the states of Ohio and Kentucky from 24 January 2014. To expand its craft beers sales in the regions, the company has partnered with Heidelberg ...
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Foundering BlackBerry has given up for now on finding a buyer. Instead the smartphone company is seeking an infusion of cash from some investors, and shaking up its board and executive leadership. The company will also be getting a new ...
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BlackBerry's appointment Monday of former Sybase CEO John Chen as its next executive board chair and interim CEO could be the best news in months for the struggling smartphone company. Chen is seen as someone who can give business ...
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Modern Tire Dealer Publisher Greg Smith (far left) and Editor Bob Ulrich (far right) honored Dan and Diane Hennelly (center) with the 2013 Tire Dealer of the Year award during the 2013 Tire Industry Honors. The Tire Industry Association ...
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Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) members recently approved three Implementation Agreements (IAs) addressing the needs for smaller modules for 100G deployments. The IAs focus on long-haul DWDM transmission modules, integrated polarization ...
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Smart & Green has a real talent for turning average objects into glowing beauties. This includes their?Down LED Light Chair, made of a solid plastic exterior this chairs illuminates spaces like no other. The embedded color changing LED ...
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Fairfax Financial Holdings, the Canadian investment fund leading a takeover of smartphone maker BlackBerry, is to invest $250m in BlackBerry via a $1bn private placement of convertible debenture. The financing move marks the close of ...
Manufacturing continued its run of steady progress in October, according to the most recent edition of the Manufacturing Report on Business from the Institute of Supply Management (ISM). The PMI, the index used by the ISM to measure ...
Oxford Frozen Foods, a frozen wild blueberries supplier, is set to invest C$184m to establish a new processing facility, develop wild blueberry fields in New Brunswick, Canada. As part of the project, the company will invest C$50m for ...
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They are appropriately called accents. Although diverse in style, accent chairs are the ideal punctuation mark to create excitement at market and on retail floors. Functioning as perfect color pops, unifying patterns or as that one piece ...
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