Google chairman Eric Schmidt has encouraged the UK government to open up a debate about reforming international tax laws, a week after the firm had been heavily criticised for "doing evil" by the chair of the public accounts committee, ...
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The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bill Hagerty announced Monday that Gerdau will expand into West Knox County. The additional facility in WestBridge Business Park will take steel rebar manufactured ...
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Switzerland-based food giant Nestlé is investing more than CHF29m ($30m) in new distribution facilities in Russia in order to strengthen its supply chain, a move which is expected to create about 100 new jobs. The investment is a ...
John Lewis signed an agreement with the Westgate Oxford Alliance Partnership, a joint venture between Land Securities Group PLC and the Crown Estate, to deliver a new department store in Oxford. The John Lewis department store will extend ...
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The U.S. tech industry added nearly 64,000 software-related jobs last year, but as the workforce expanded, the average size of workers’ pay cheques declined by nearly 2 percent. There are multiple theories for the decline in pay, ...
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LASER 2013: photonics to employ 165,000 in Germany by 2020 15 May 2013 Study by the Photonik Forschung Deutschland organization calls the growing sector a "job engine". Panel talk The German photonics sector will employ 165,000 ...
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The state of Connecticut is considering a $3 million loan to help relocate Cannondale Sports Unlimited — the new name for what was formerly known as Dorel's Recreation/Leisure division. Gov. Dannel Malloy announced Tuesday that the ...
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Linden Foods plans to invest £5m to expand operations at its meat processing facility in Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK, creating 179 new jobs. A majority of the new positions created by the expansion will be in ...
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3D printing has been attracting more attention in recent months as a tool to create gadgets, toys and miniature works of art. Now President Barack Obama thinks it can also play a role in strengthening the military and America's sagging ...
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Telecoms giant BT reported a two per cent rise in its full-year profits to £2.5bn for the year to 31 March, but revenues for the year slipped five per cent to £18bn. BT beat analysts' expectations of a five per cent drop in ...
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Rosneft boosts environmental safety of far east terminals Wednesday, May 08, 2013 Two stand-by oil spill response vessels were launched at the Zvezda Shipyard (the city of Bolshoi Kamen) in the Primorsky Territory (Russia's Far East). The ...
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A senior official with the Vitebsk Region Administration in Belarus has stated that a €280 million investment project is planned for the Miory district in Vitebsk for the contruction of a new metallurgical plant for production of ...
US agribusiness firm Cargill has broken ground on a $100m cocoa processing facility in Gresik, in the East-Java region of Indonesia, a move which is expected to create approximately 200 new jobs. According to Cargill, the new facility is ...
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UPM has completed the sale of assets and part of the Stracel paper mill site land to Blue Paper, the joint venture company of VPK Packaging Group and Klingele Papierwerke. According to the Finnish paper company, Blue Paper, which will ...
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On the back end of an earnings season that by many accounts could have been worse, tech investors appeared to be in the mood to celebrate on Friday, sending shares of IT companies higher as key stock-market indexes hit milestone highs. ...
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