Octopus Investments (Octopus) in partnership with Lightsource Renewable Energy (Lightsource), its dedicated in-house solar development company, has announced that it had successfully secured funding from The Royal Bank of Scotland Corporate ...
Nationwide has reached a major milestone in its five-year transformation project, with the roll-out of a mortgage application system to some 740 branches. In 2008, Nationwide embarked on a 1bn project to transform its technology after ...
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Record group EMI is honing its marketing efforts by joining its data sources through Microsoft SQL Server 2012. It has reportedly gained insights into how individual artists’ albums, tracks, ringtones and merchandise sell in different ...
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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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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co has announced the expansion of its premium private label Two Forks Bakery and Hartford Reserve Deli lines. In bakery, the US supermarket group added a line of cupcakes and rebranded its key lime and ...
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UK - TAIT Technologies have been awarded a Guinness World Records title for the world's largest landscape video display. Consisting of 634,500 individual pixels, TAIT's pixel tablet debuted at the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony on ...
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Manulife Financial has appointed Craig Bromley as senior executive vice president and general manager for its US Division as well as president of John Hancock Financial Services, effective from 1 September 2012. Bromley will join the ...
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Sevcon and Flextronics Automotive have entered into an agreement to provide hybrid and electric vehicle (EV) drivetrain systems to automotive OEM customers in Germany and other central European countries. The deal will allow combination ...
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Columbia Sportswear Company,a leading innovator in the global active outdoor apparel and footwear industries,announced net sales of$545.0 million for the quarter ended September 30,2012,a 4 percent decline compared with net sales of$566.8 ...
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UK - The awe-inspiring - and completely distinctive - Opening and Closing Ceremonies, which spectacularly book-ended the London 2012 Olympics, were a triumph for the respective artistic directors, Danny Boyle and Kim Gavin. Described as ...
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UK-Watched by a global audience of four billion,the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony has been hailed as a spectacular success-and Huntingdon based specialist flooring company Le Mark played a vital role by converting an original design ...
UK-Billions of people worldwide watched the 2012 London Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies,where producer Danny Boyle masterfully deployed mystical elements of the gods-light,colour,and fire-in a celebration of British culture and ...
UK-Following their debut in the London 2012 Opening Ceremony,the'pixels'and Crystal's animations immersed the audience in a celebration of British music at last night's Closing Ceremony. Danny Boyle said:"Every Olympic ceremony ...
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It's been evident for several years now that Twitter is a monetising, highly effective business commodity. Be it sponsored tweets, increased SEO click rates from well-distributed retweets and appearance in the right lists, having a social ...
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UK-The two companies that made event history by developing the digital artistry and technology behind the London 2012 Opening Ceremonies'human-powered'video screen signed a global partnership agreement on Saturday 28 July.The partners are ...
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