Vitamin and supplement giant NBTY has acquired US energy bar brand Balance Bar from private-equity firm Brynwood Partners VI. Brynwood, which acquired the brand from Kraft Foods in 2009, announced the sale for an undisclosed sum yesterday ...
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. The 10-megawatt(MW)capacity Greenough River Solar Farm,which is Australia's biggest solar photovoltaic project comprising 150,000 panels,was officially opened on Wednesday. The project,covering 50 hectares of farmland about 50km ...
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Mars Chocolate today (25 September) opened a new GBP6m (US$9.8m) research and development facility in Slough. The company said that the "state of the art" site would be responsible for delivering new products to European markets and ...
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Chilean retail giant Cencosud has booked an increase in earnings for the third quarter of the year. Net profit in the three months to the end of September grew 20% to CLP66.9bn (US$139.4m), the company reported today (20 November). The ...
BS reported that Aditya Birla Group company Hindalco will receive USD 100 million in financing from Export Development Canada or EDC, the country’s export credit agency for its Mahan Aluminium Project in Madhya Pradesh. The ...
10 October 2012 Electricity producer Verve Energy of Perth,Australia,GE Energy Financial Services of Stamford,CT,USA and First Solar Inc of Tempe,AZ,USA have opened the 10-megawatt Greenough River Solar Farm near Geraldton,Western ...
Pan-Asian retailer Dairy Farm International Holdings has said it is trading ahead of last year, with growth recorded across the majority of its business. The company said sales and earnings increased in the period from 1 July to 6 ...
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The processors support all the features of the Intel Xeon processor E5 family Intel has launched 28 processors in three product families under its Xeon processors family E5-4600, Xeon processor family E5-2400 and Xeon processor family ...
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South African retailer Massmart has booked an increase in annual profits on the back of improved sales. The company, in which Wal-Mart Stores owns a majority stake, yesterday (22 August) filed an 8.9% increase in underlying headline ...
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'Roadrunner' supports the AMD Opteron 6000 Series processors Semiconductor company AMD has unveiled a new Open Compute Project server platform specification, code named 'Roadrunner,' which is designed to meet the general purpose compute, ...
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The new co-processors will be in production in 2012 Intel has unveiled the architecture details of Xeon Phi Co-Processor designed for highly parallel technical applications. Xeon Phi co-processor is based on the Intel ...
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(i)Policy and Administrative Rules Catalogue of Related Laws Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of China Customs Law of the People's Republic of China Law of the People's Republic of China on Import and Export Commodity ...
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Avery Dennison Corporation announced that its board of directors has elected Anthony K.Anderson a director,effective December 6,2012. Anderson,57,joins the Avery Dennison board after a 35-year career with Ernst&Young LLP,the global ...
TradeCard,Inc.,the supply chain collaboration and global trade platform used by 10,000 retailers,brands,manufacturers and service providers,announced today that leading global brand and retailer GUESS?,Inc.has extended its use of the ...
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IDG News Service-In the world of high-frequency trading,where being ahead of the competition by a few milliseconds can mean profits worth millions of dollars,finance firms are increasingly looking to decades-old microwave technologies for a ...
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