The supplier base for PV inverters further fragmented in 2012, with the total market share of the 10 largest suppliers falling by more than four percentage points, according to IHS. This was partly due to strong growth in demand from ...
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The business will be headquartered in Luxembourg and will comprise Britton Group, Paragon Print & Packaging, Paccor, Kobusch and Exopack, creating a plastics business with both rigids and flexibles operations in 70 countries and turnover of ...
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With effect from 1 July, Finnish timber industry giant Stora Enso will merge its two business divisions Printing and Reading“ and Building and Living“ into a single division, the name of which has not yet been specified. The new ...
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Google plans to shut down in June the Meebo Bar for receiving and sharing personalized content from websites in favor of Google+ tools for interaction between websites and users. The Internet giant acquired Meebo in June last year. ...
The European Cycling Federation’s Cycling Industry Club has announced six grant recipients for 2013 as part of its Leadership Program. The six organizations selected for grants, in Italy, Austria, Sweden, Ukraine, Ireland and the ...
Tags: Cycling, Cycling Industry
K•Swiss Inc. announced that, at a special meeting of stockholders held, its stockholders approved the adoption of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated January 16, 2013, by and among K•Swiss Inc., E.Land World Limited, a ...
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Indian steelmaker JSW Steel has denied media reports about Japan's JFE Steel increasing its shareholding in JSW. The Indian steelmaker stated that JFE Steel still has a 16.17 percent shareholding in the company. An Indian-based newspaper ...
Tags: Steel Denies Reports, Mineral
ACE Insurance, a unit of the ACE Group of insurance and reinsurance companies, has appointed Tim Shields as the new president director of PT Asuransi Jaya Proteksi, (Japro). Following completion of transaction, subject to regulatory ...
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Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC) has announced that it will conduct a share exchange with Sumitomo Pipe & Tube Co., Ltd. (SPT) effective as of August 1, 2013 to incorporate SPT as its wholly owned subsidiary. ...
The merger of T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS cleared its last major hurdle on Wednesday as MetroPCS shareholders overwhelmingly approved the deal. The merger, first proposed last October, had faced opposition from some large shareholders until ...
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Buckeye Technologies Inc. and Georgia-Pacific LLC announced that they have reached a definitive agreement for Georgia-Pacific to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Buckeye Technologies' common stock for $37.50 per share in cash. The ...
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The European Commission (EC) may oblige Luxembourg-headquartered steelmaker Aperam, which is bidding to buy Outokumpu's Italian stainless steel plant in Terni, to sell other steel assets if it succeeds in the acquisition bid, a commission ...
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The European Cycling Federation's Cycling Industry Club has announced six grant recipients for 2013 as part of its Leadership Program. The six organizations selected for grants, in Italy, Austria, Sweden, Ukraine, Ireland and the Czech ...
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MetroPCS Communications, Inc. announced today that its stockholders overwhelmingly voted to approve all of the proposals required for closing the proposed combination with T-Mobile USA, Inc. With today's approval of the proposals by ...
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Spain-based stainless producer Acerinox said that the European apparent demand for stainless steel dropped by 6.8% year on year in the first quarter of this year. However, the US apparent demand for stainless steel increased by 9.2% year on ...
Tags: Stainless, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy