Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital have completed the previously announced $28bn acquisition of American food company HJ Heinz. The consortium had entered into an agreement on 14 February to acquire Heinz for $28bn, including the ...
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Mobile telecoms firm Vodafone paid no UK corporation tax for a second year running, despite its revenues exceeding £5bn in Britain. Vodafone, which owns and operates networks in over 30 countries, claimed that its investment in ...
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Alexander City, AL, once the site of as many as 7,000 jobs in the textile industry, will see the last 200 manufacturing jobs disappear starting Jul. 29 at a facility there that had laid off 200 persons only in January. A distribution center ...
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American food company Heinz has announced that it has received all regulatory approvals to sell itself to the investment consortium comprised of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and private equity firm 3G Capital. The transaction, ...
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In its eighth year, the Shaw Contract Group Design Is… Award program honors architecture and design firms that are changing the very idea of what design is. This year, Shaw Contract Group introduced Market Awards, representing the ...
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce has approved the previously announced agreement of Heinz takeover by an investment consortium comprised of Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital. The transaction, which remains subject to certain customary ...
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Berkshire Bike and Board has opened a second store in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Like the original Berkshire Bike and Board located 20 miles away in Great Barrington, the 3,000-square-foot store was designed as a Giant Partner Store. ...
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While moving storage to the cloud via off-premise data centres is becoming a popular choice even for operations as small as a school, Wellington College in Berkshire has recently seen results with some good, old-fashioned data-crunching. ...
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Apple climbed the Fortune 500 this year to the No. 6 spot, its highest-ever ranking, its first time in the top 10, and the top technology company on the influential list, replacing sagging HP. Fortune, which ranks firms by annual revenue, ...
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Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates today stuck to the company line on tablets, and disparaged rival Apple's iPad for its lack of a keyboard and its inability to run Office. In an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box" program, Gates, ...
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Lubrizol Specialty Chemicals (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of The Lubrizol Corporation, is introducing two new Oeko-Tex Standard 100 certified TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane) resins, for use in textiles, at the 2013 Chinaplas in ...
Salesforce.com, the cloud-based customer relationship management service provider, is to open a new European data centre in the UK to support its fast expansion across the continent. The company claims that sales across Europe are ...
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Burger King chief executive officer Bernardo Hees will become the next chief of ketchup producer HJ Heinz, following its $28bn acquisition by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and Brazilian private-equity firm 3G Capital. However, ...
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Shaw Industries Group Inc. — a Dalton, Ga.-based floor covering provider and subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. — announces its Reclaim to Energy (Re2E) facility in Dalton has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental ...
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital proposed acquisition of American food company HJ Heinz. CCI said that the transaction is not likely to have any adverse effect on ...
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