European meat company HKScan Group will soon commence the exports of Finnish pork to China. The firm's pork slaughtering facility at Forssa in Finland is expected to receive export certification from the Chinese food authorities, who ...
Tags: Pork, meat company, Agriculture
For coatings producers one of the big benefits of the sharp fall in oil prices in the second half of last year (2014) should be a drop in raw material costs. Some commentators are also predicting a rise in demand due to the effect of ...
Tags: Oil Prices, Raw materials, Construction
The Nokia N1 seemingly came out of nowhere, marking itself as the Finnish firm’s virginal take on tablets, and its first product since the Microsoft branding split. Fortunately for Nokia, demand seems high, as its tablet went on ...
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Samsung is now plotting to update the Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 2 handsets with the recently-released Android 5.0 Lollipop operating system. Samsung Finland’s website has published a table featuring list of devices in line for the ...
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The likelihood of tighter European Union regulations on air emissions being imposed on the European coatings and other industries has been receding as the EU gives top priority to economic growth at a time when many of the region’s ...
Tags: IAQ labelling system, volatile organic compounds, Construction
Nokia has relaunched its highly-rated Here Maps application on the Google Play Store. The Finnish firm, free from the shackles of creating hardware following the Microsoft buyout, has been turning its attention to software with Maps at ...
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Ratos has signed an agreement to acquire approximately 67% of the shares in the Finnish LED optics company Ledil Oy from the company's founders. The purchase price (enterprise value) for 100% of the company amounts to EUR 97m, of which ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED optics company, Lights
Swedish fashion retailer Lindex, part of Stockmann, a Finnish listed company engaged in the retail trade, has elected two additional members to the company’s Board of Directors, Eva Hamilton and Per Thelin. Together the Board now ...
Tags: fashion retailer, Directors, Apparel
The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), an international marketing organization for traders, manufacturers and service providers based in Hong Kong, is set to host two concurrent apparel-centric events ‘Hong Kong Fashion ...
Tags: fashion brands, Apparel
Finnish food company Raisio Group has acquired the Benecol business in the UK, Ireland and Belgium from Cilag, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. Owned by Raisio Group, the Benecol brands' license to sell and market the products was given ...
Following hike in losses in third-quarter of 2014, Finnish fashion retailer – Stockmann said, it will downsize operations of Seppälä brand significantly in Finland and Estonia and close down operations in Latvia and ...
Stockmann, a Finnish listed company engaged in the retail trade, has appointed Per Thelin, as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective from the 10th of November, 2014. Per Thelin, a B.Sc. Economics Graduate and a Swedish citizen, ...
Tags: Stockmann, Chief Executive Officer, Textile
Amer Sports reported net sales of €645.8 million ($856 mm) for the quarter ended Sept. 30, up 6.1 percent compared with €608.9 million a year earlier. Net sales increased by 6.0 percent in currency-nuetral terms. The Finnish ...
Tags: Amer Sports, Softgoods, Footwear
Finland-based meat specialist HKScan has announced plans to invest in new production facilities in western Finland and Rakvere, Estonia. The proposed facility in western Finland will see an investment ranging from €35-65m, while the ...
Tags: HKScan, Operations, Food
Finland based VTT Technical Research Centre, Aalto University and Tampere University of Technology are together developing novel recycled textile fibres in the Design World of Cellulose project, a major technological scheme of Tekes - the ...