India-based drugmaker Sun Pharmaceutical Industries is said to be in advanced negotiations to acquire Sweden-based Meda in a deal valued at $5-$6bn. Sources close to the deal were quoted by Reuters as saying that the acquisition will ...
Several textile firms from Belgium have articulated interest in investing in Macedonia, a country located in the central Balkan peninsular region in southeastern Europe, Visar Fida, director of Agency for Foreign Investments, has said. ...
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With effect from 1 July, Finnish timber industry giant Stora Enso will merge its two business divisions Printing and Reading“ and Building and Living“ into a single division, the name of which has not yet been specified. The new ...
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Float glass is the largest process type, accounting for a lion’s share of the global flat glass demand. In developed markets like Europe and the United States, vehicle manufacturers are gravitating towards the use of laminated side ...
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Unilever’s ice cream sales in Europe have been hit by the poor Spring weather, it has emerged as the consumer goods giant announced its first quarter (Q1) results today (April 25). Unilever has relaunched Cornetto in Europe The ...
Tags: Poor Spring Weather, Ice Cream, Food
Harold Bevis, Xerium CEO and President, announced the restructuring of our European Executive and Global Technical Leadership functions. With these strategic changes, Mr. Bevis announced the creation of the new position of President of ...
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Stung by plunging sales in Japan and declining demand in North America and Western Europe, global television shipments in 2012 fell, marking a major inflection point that will have a lasting impact on the market, according to an IHS iSuppli ...
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The number of global subscribers to 4G LTE mobile broadband technology is set to double over the next two years, rising from 105 million this year to nearly 220 million in 2014, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Deployments ...
A TOP BlackRock executive said there was little evidence of a meaningful switch by global investors into equities from fixed-income assets, even after recent strong sharemarket gains. "There appears to be a lot of cash coming off the ...
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A very interested and international public has turned BAU 2013 into a successful and thrilling event for the CANTOR team. It also confirmed some of the trends the A+W windows and door specialists had been dealing with during the time ...
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Global food group Nestle said 2013 looks every bit as "challenging" as 2012, a year when profits increased but underlying sales growth slowed. The Swiss food giant reported a 11.8% increase in earnings of CHF10.61bn (US$12.02bn) in 2012. ...
Food manufacturing and consumer goods giant Unilever has demonstrated skill in navigating choppy global waters by delivering a solid performance in its fourth quarter results to December 31, with sales up by 10.5% to €1.3bn and profits ...
All those pet cat profiles add up: Facebook has reported that roughly 76 million of the 1.06 billion user accounts on its social network are bogus in some way or other. The company identifies three types of accounts that don't represent ...
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Nestlé is all set to provide consumers instant access to information about the nutritional profile and environmental and social impacts of its products, through its new nutritional label scanning technology. According to the ...
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Swiss food firm Nestlé has introduced new digital labelling scheme that gives instant access to information about the nutritional profile and environmental and social impacts of the company's products. The move is a part of ...
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