According to Brazilian news reports Monday, Gerdau has joined the competition to acquire the assets of bankrupt, France-based engineering steel manufacturer Ascometal. Gerdau, which has reportedly offered 86 million euro (US$118 million), ...
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Akzo Nobel N.V. reported a positive volume and price/mix development in all three Business Areas. First quarter revenues of €3,383 million were 2 percent lower compared with the same period last year. The decrease was mainly a ...
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In the 165th year of its history, Freudenberg, the internationally active family company, was more successful than ever before. In the 2013 financial year, the technology group reported record sales for the fourth year in succession, on the ...
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Akzo Nobel recently reported a positive volume and price/mix development in all three Business Areas. First quarter revenues of €3,383 million were 2 percent lower compared with the same period last year. The decrease was mainly a ...
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NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks, ...
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Global steelmaking and mining giant Evraz Group S.A. has announced the signing and closing of the sale of its wholly-owned subsidiary Evraz Vitkovice Steel (EVS) to a group of private investors (Martinley Holdings Limited, Nabara Holdings ...
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As announced in the press release of 04 October 2013, Recticel decided to adopt the new IFRS 11 Reporting Standard as of 01 January 2013. Consequently, the joint ventures, which were previously integrated by application of the proportionate ...
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Liberty Interactive Corp. said in the aggregate, Liberty Interactive Group's eCommerce businesses increased revenue 8 percent to $487 million in the fourth quarter and 12 percent to $1.7 billion for the year, but still generated operating ...
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Ferro Corporation (NYSE: FOE, the “Company”) today reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2013. The fourth-quarter income from continuing operations attributable to common shareholders was ...
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Wanxiang America, an affiliate of Chinese automotive parts maker Wanxiang Group, has received an approval from the US bankruptcy court to acquire the assets of American electric car maker Fisker Automotive for $149.2m. The company has won ...
Unilever reported that its 2013 turnover was down 3% to €49.8 billion with foreign exchange 5.9% and net acquisitions and disposal 1.1% Finance costs and tax The cost of financing net borrowings in 2013 was €397 million versus ...
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Amcor is in the process of acquiring some of the assets of PET pioneer company, Constar International Holdings LLC. Constar goes back to the 1960s and developed the two litre PET soda bottle in the 1980s. Constar has been working its way ...
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This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. Two years ago, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote a much-discussed piece on the ...
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Royal Dutch Shell plc("Shell")(NYSE:RDS.A)(NYSE:RDS.B)today announces the successful completion of the acquisition of Repsol S.A.'s("Repsol")liquefied natural gas(LNG)portfolio outside North America for a headline cash consideration of$4.1 ...
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Trading in Valmet Corporation's shares on the official list of NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd begins, January 2, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. Finnish time. The trading code of the shares is VALMT. On October 1, 2013, the Extraordinary General Meeting of ...
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