IDG News Service - Preparing quick service pizza chain Domino's (ASX:DMP) for a digital future is top priority for Group CIO, Wayne McMahon. Based in Brisbane, McMahon has been in charge of IT at the company for the past 19 months and ...
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Ford Motor says it will spend more than $773 million on expanding its manufacturing facilities and create 2,350 new jobs in its home state of Michigan as part of a plan to invest $6.2 billion and add 12,000 new positions by 2015. "Even as ...
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In 2008 London accounted for 33.8%of new UK IT jobs.Most other regions recorded a reducing share of new jobs. A large proportion of London-based IT jobs are in the financial services sector which was hit hardest by the economic slowdown ...
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Business analytics provider SAS has launched the SAS Student Academy to help staff a big data analytics revolution, through a joint initiative with Birmingham City University (BCU). At the launch at BCU yesterday, the university's vice ...
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Baltimore Business Journal reported that Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz officially declared steelmaking at Sparrows Point dead on Thursday and said the plant would be dismantled. Gov Martin O'Malley released the following ...
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More than $224 million has been injected into Iraq’s private sector economy in the form of Small & Medium Enterprise bank loans thanks to a cooperative effort between the USAID-Tijara Provincial Economic Growth Program and 12 private ...
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Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) wants a separate ‘Ministry of Apparel’ in the Bangladesh Government that is exclusively dedicated to the country’s readymade garment (RMG) sector. A ...
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Under the correct leadership of CPC Central Committee and State Council, in accordance with the scientific concept of development and building a harmonious socialist society, by further intensify the work of employment, as well as improving ...
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Seven new breweries are all set to launch their business in Dayton,US,duing the next six to 12 months. The beef up of craft beer brewers will add 80 new jobs as well as increase tourism. At the peak level of production,the breweries are ...
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Virtual Instruments is opening an office in London’s Tech City hub to develop new products and revamp old ones. The building on Rivington Street will initially house 20 software developers, with a further 10 being added by the end ...
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Fiber-monitoring system to observe hydraulic fracturing - better known as "fracking" - operations in oil and shale gas prospecting. QinetiQ company OptaSense has signed a global commercialisation and framework agreement with oil giant ...
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The economic picture that Gartner's head of research, Peter Sondergaard, painted at his firm's recent Symposium/ITxpo conference in Orlando was upbeat in a surprising way. While Gartner isn't significantly raising its global IT growth ...
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Canada-based Lambton Conveyor is set to receive a funding from the government for the expansion of its grain handling and storage equipment manufacturing operations. Under the FedDev Ontario's Prosperity Initiative, the government will ...
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Modernization and upgrade of existing facilities 1.The Company continued a major modernization program of its foundries across its Russian aluminium smelters in order to increase the production of value added products.The share of VAP ...
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Gildan Activewear Inc., the Montreal-based basic apparel manufacturer, is planning to set up a textile plant in North Carolina’s Rowan County. The company plans to revamp a shuttered 400,000-square-foot facility, owned by ...
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