The Welsh government has invested 39m into faster broadband services for schools, the First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones has announced. The investment comes from a new "Learning In Digital Wales Grant" that aims to help students to ...
PureCircle, a producer of stevia ingredients, expects first-half sales to surge as food and beverage companies sign up for the natural sweetener. Net sales are expected to show an increase of 80% to US$27m in the six months to 31 ...
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UK-On Sunday 8th July 2012,Battersea Power Station changed colour from red to green as it hosted 2,000 people attending the Nike+FuelFest-a huge party rewarding the most active everyday athletes who have taken part in Nike events so far ...
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Somerset County Council's troubled outsourcing contract with Southwest One has stalled the authority's programme of cost cuts, according to a Conservative member of its cabinet. Southwest One, a shared services venture with IBM in which ...
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Google has agreed with the UK government to pay just pound 6m in corporation tax this year, despite earning almost pound 400m in revenues. The Daily Telegraph revealed the sum after the Silicon Valley giant filed its accounts for its UK ...
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SunOpta has said it is pleased with its half-year performance, after reporting rises in both sales and profits. For the 26 weeks to the end of June, SunOpta saw net sales rise by 4% to US$541.6m. Net profits, meanwhile, jumped by 38% on ...
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US food group Campbell Soup Co. is to shut two domestic plants, citing falling canned soup sales among the reasons for the move. Campbell will close a spice factory in New Jersey by March and a soup and sauce plant in California by July. ...
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Good night, good night All that remains is for Paul McCartney to sing us off to our slumbers. It's been a terrific night, a glorious ceremony, a rousing history lesson and far and away the best film that Danny Boyle never made. Thanks ...
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Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes lasers and optical components, modules and subsystems for the optical communications, industrial and consumer laser markets, has completed the sale of the assets of its Santa Rosa thin-film ...
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Frutarom, a flavors and fragrances company headquartered in Israel, has reported a rise in its Q2 2012 net profit by 10% to $13.5m, compared to $12.3m in the same quarter last year. For the second quarter of fiscal 2012, the company's ...
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Mazda Motor and Ford will invest $27m in their AutoAlliance Thailand (AAT) joint-venture plant in Rayong, Thailand. The new investment will increase pickup truck production capacity by 20,000 units per year, to 140,000, starting this May. ...
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Volkswagen Group of America has opened a new $27m Test Center California (TCC) product development and emissions test laboratory in Oxnard, California, US. The 64,000sq ft facility is expected to be fully operational this fall and will ...
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Lincoln Financial has registered a net income of $402m, or $1.41 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2012, from $153m, or $0.47 per diluted share during the same period last fiscal. Third quarter income from operations stood at ...
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Specialty ingredients firm Innophos has completed the acquisition of AMT Labs,a US-based manufacturer of custom ingredients for the food,beverage,confectionery and nutraceutical industries,for$27m. The agreement includes 100%of the equity ...
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Oclaro of San Jose,CA,USA,which makes lasers and optical components,modules and subsystems for the optical communications,industrial and consumer laser markets,has agreed to sell the assets of its Santa Rosa thin-film filter business to ...
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