Germany-based steelmaker ThyssenKrupp has announced its financial results for the third quarter and the first nine months ended June 30 of the financial year 2012-13. For the third quarter, ThyssenKrupp registered a net loss of €238 ...
Tags: Thyssenkrupp, Steel Plants
At a second auction date for the sale of the assets of the Spanish particleboard manufacturer Tablicia, which has been insolvent since October 2012, the Peruvian trading company Representaciones Martín won the bidding. According to ...
Tags: particleboard, Construction
UPM-Kymmene has received a purchase offer for the French planing mill in Aigrefeuille d'Anuis. The offer, however, is still subject to certain pre-conditions, the details of which have not been disclosed by UPM-Kymmene as yet. The offer is ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
In the ice-cold cargo hold of a pirate tuna vessel in the Pacific, I have somehow lost my shoe. Frozen tuna fins slice my unshod foot as I fumble around on all fours, reaching into the gigantic, frigid pile. I had boarded the pirate ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, fish
The $1.6 billion redevelopment of the Port of Melbourne has attracted a high-calibre list of civil and maritime construction specialists competing for two significant work packages. Port of Melbourne Corporation chief executive officer ...
Tags: Service, Shortlisted Bidders, Melbourne
SoftBank has sweetened its bid for Sprint Nextel, increasing its total offer to about US$21.6 billion and boosting the amount of cash Sprint shareholders would get. The Japanese service provider and Sprint announced the amended deal late ...
Tags: SoftBank, Sprint Nextel
One of only a handful of 37-year-old, still-working Apple-1 computers sold for a record three-quarters of a million dollars Saturday at an auction in Germany. The record price was paid by an anonymous bidder. In an interview with the?New ...
Tags: Computer Products
One of the keys to customer loyalty is managing expectations. When they walk into the store, can they expect prompt and courteous service, or will they be left waiting and stuck browsing on their own? Most of my research verifies that ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The U.S. government is in negotiations with SoftBank for greater control over equipment purchases by Sprint Nextel and the selection of one of the Japanese company's nominee to the U.S. carrier's board, according to a news report. Dish ...
Tags: SoftBank, US, Allay Security
Sprint Nextel said it had received permission from SoftBank to negotiate a rival acquisition offer from Dish Network. The board of Sprint Nextel has the right to terminate its existing merger agreement with SoftBank, subject to certain ...
An anonymous bidder paid $US610,000 ($617,000) in a charity auction for coffee date with Apple chief Tim Cook, the organisers said. The Tim Cook auction tied the record for highest winning bid at charity auction site Charitybuzz, ...
Investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management have countered Dell's plan to go private with an offer that would give shareholders a large payout and still keep the computer company publicly traded. In a letter Thursday to Dell's ...
Tags: Investor Carl Icahn, Dell
May 9, 2013 - The Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) is launching what it calls “an innovative new approach” that will “elevate competition to the province’s electricity transmission industry”. For the ...
The assets of the insolvent Czech plywood and blockboard producer Ploma are currently being offered for sale in a tender process which will run until 31 May 2013. According to Ivana Rychnovská, the administrator appointed by the ...
Tags: Insolvent Ploma, Machinery
A COFFEE date with Apple chief Tim Cook was a hot opportunity as bidding quickly topped $US70,000 ($68,109) for a chance being auctioned to raise money for a human rights group. A bidder identified as rory.oneill3 at the Charitybuzz ...
Tags: APPLE, Consumer Electronics