Motherwell and Wishaw MP Frank Roy has praised Tata Steel’s Dalzell plant for “coming to the rescue”of a project to help build the new Forth road bridge. A Spanish firm, who were to make the steel girders that will ...
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Toledo Mining has put the final piece in place in a deal to develop the Berong nickel venture in the Philippines. Toledo has sold its 31% stake in Nickeline Resources and bought 18.7% of Berong Nickel Corporation of which Nickeline ...
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This year presents Amur Minerals with an opportunity to update a former pre-feasibility study for its flagship Kun Manie nickel-copper project. Analyst Tom Hayes said that drilling results in 2012 have pointed to an overall increase ...
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Global consumer packaging group Rexam has received approval from the Chinese authorities and hopes to complete the sale of its Cosmetics, Toiletries and Household care products business for $459m to Sun European Partners’ affiliate. ...
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The acquisition of Premier Foods’ East Anglian canning business has helped to boost the sales figures growth of food and drink manufacturer Princes by 28%, according to figures filed at Companies House last week (December 12). ...
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Employees at the Gerdau steel mill in Jacksonville collected nearly GBP 5,500 of non perishable food items for Samaritan House Food Bank of Baker County.They will donate an additional USD 2,500 on behalf of Gerdau Institute,the organization ...
Facebook met fresh criticism today after filings showed it paid just 2.6m in tax on profits of over 800m. The US-based company operates in numerous countries around the globe, but puts all of its transactions outside of its home territory ...
Capita has won the race to take over a number of key Barnet Council services in an outsourcing deal valued at GBP 320m over 10 years. The business-process outsourcing specialist will take over the running of the Council's "new support and ...
According to the Advanced Manufacturing Park, TATA Steel and its industry partners have received a grant to develop a new automotive proving facility in Rotherham. The new facility will work towards developing low carbon technologies for ...
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17 million UK consumers are expected to shop online. UK consumers are expected to visit nearly 126 million sites on Boxing Day this year, a 31% increase from 2011. According to Experian and IMRG, online retail visits will break Cyber ...
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For those who thought that 2012 was getting slightly too London-centric, I have some good news. Put down your javelin, dust off your sleeping bag and get ready for Belfast 2012. Byte Night is this year launching a Belfast sleep-out in ...
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) estimates that total benefit overpayments due to fraud and error in 2011-12 were GBP3.2 billion, equating to 2% of total benefit expenditure of GBP 159bn. Total underpayments in 2011-12 are ...
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Space NK apothecary is one of a number of retailers using 3G as a replacement for ISDN to back up store IT systems. The retailer is using the service, supplied by Claranet, to reduce the risk of "copper theft", which can take out all ...
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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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The English Poker Open 2012 took place from September 18th to 21st at The Fox Poker Club in the heart of London's West End. This year's dedicated poker venue saw Danish player Mickey Petersen become the "Poker King of England" at the ...
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