Confectionery manufacturer Thorntons plans to close a further 40 stores in this financial year, as it continues to focus on “significant growth” in multiple-channel sales via supermarkets and Thorntons Direct online. ...
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For fourth-quarter 2012, Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA, which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries, has reported revenue of $20m, up slightly on $19.9m last quarter ...
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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) now offers its more than 180 National Societies the option to adopt Office 365, Microsoft's cloud-based suite of email, collaboration and productivity software. ...
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Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc., the leading developer of advanced spider silk based fiber technologies, announced that the first two stages of its Monster Silk pilot production program ("program") are running ahead of schedule and that ...
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BARCELONA -- Hewlett Packard on Sunday unveiled the HP Slate7, a 7-in. tablet that will go on sale in April in the U.S. starting at the bargain price of $169. The HP Slate7 is a 7-in. tablet that will go on sale in April for $169. ...
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General Mills and Haagen-Dazs today announced an initiative to help smallholder vanilla farmers in Madagascar, in order to ensure the availability of vanilla for future generations. As a part of the new initiative, both the firms together ...
The all-new Jeep Cherokee will introduce a revolutionary new design language for the iconic American off-road marque when it debuts at next month’s 2013 New York motor show. Jeep released the first official images of the radically ...
The return of the Lexus ES to Australia for the first time since 2006 has been confirmed by the Japanese brand. Lexus had been expected to bring the mid-size luxury sedan back to the local market after the company revealed in April 2012 ...
The Hyundai Grand Santa Fe has been confirmed for Europe, with the long-wheelbase version of the full-size SUV set to debut at next month’s Geneva motor show. The Grand Santa Fe originally debuted at last year’s New York motor ...
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Google "I hate buying a new car" and you'll get about 96,900,000 results. Yes, many people can't stand the process buying a new car. But over the last 13 years and 102 transactions buying cars for Consumer Reports' test program, I've seen ...
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Sony announced today two SLR-like cameras that include a new facet of automation: Both the 20-megapixel Alpha a58 and the 16-megapixel NEX-3N have a feature called "auto object framing," which functions similarly to auto framing mode by ...
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The limited edition Wiesmann GT MF4-CS will headline the German sports car maker’s stand at next month’s 2013 Geneva motor show. The Wiesmann GT MF4-CS is the ‘Club Sport’ version of the high-performance GT MF4-S, ...
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Digital color printing technology company Xeikon is all set to demonstrate the Xeikon 3030 in a roll to roll configuration at Propak Africa 2013, to be held from 12 to 15 March at the Expo Centre, Nasrec, Johannesburg, South Africa. The ...
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Cross- industry standards body, the Multicore Association has announced the availability of its Multicore Task Management Application Program Interface (MTAPI) that supports the coordination of tasks on embedded parallel systems. "To ...
The Finnish manufacturer of kitchen furniture, Puustelli Group Oy, has developed a frame structure together with wood and paper group UPM-Kymmene, which is to replace the corpuses previously made of particle boards in kitchen construction. ...
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