Bacardi has bought a minority stake in Scotch whisky bottler, producer and marketer Compass Box. With the investment, Bacardi has become a 'long-term' supplier through its John Dewar & Sons business to Compass Box, reported The Spirit ...
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Firma Holdings has acquired baked goods maker Sicilian Sun and its subsidiary Sicilian Sun Foods. The acquisition also involves Sicilian's two production facilities located in Alcamo and Catania on the island of Sicily in Italy. The ...
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Solargiga Energy Holdings, a China-based maker of solar-grade crystalline silicon wafers and PV modules as well as a PV EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) contactor, shipped 514.8MWp of PV modules in 2014, hiking 78.8% on year, ...
A new research conducted at Experimental Biology (EB) 2015 by ConAgra Foods, Inc., one of North America's largest food firms, finds that single-serve frozen meals were equally beneficent or better than expensive diet programmes for weight ...
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Confectionery, food and beverage conglomerate Mondelez has commenced production and sale of Oreo in Morocco, following an $11m investment towards its local subsidiary in Casablanca. With the investment, Mondelez aims to create the largest ...
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LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar has developed silicon substrate applications for integrating power drivers on single-chip devices, with volumes of such devices being 75% smaller than those of conventional models, and the company ...
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Chairman Jimmy Chu of the Fair Friend Ent. Group, Taiwan's biggest machine-tool conglomerate by revenue, announced plans to go public in Taiwan around the end of 2017 by consolidating resources of all of its subsidiaries worldwide. The ...
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LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has expanded its LED bulb portfolio with the TW Series LED T8 tube replacement for consumers. Designed for simple, wire-free installation and available as 32-watt replacements, ...
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PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials will distribute a cash dividend per share of NT$15.00 (US$0.476) for 2014 operations, accounting for 61.12% of the corresponding EPS of NT$24.54, according to the company. Giga Solar recorded ...
British spirits maker Diageo expects Asia to drive sales growth of its products by 50%, inspite of the fluctuations in its Asia unit. Diageo CEO Ivan Menezes told BBC that the basics in the Asian region are still strong. For instance, the ...
Dutch bottler of soft drinks and juices Refresco Gerber BV has raised $597m (€548m) through initial public offering on Amsterdam stock exchange. This is its third IPO this year, reported Bloomberg. Refresco sold 37.8 million ...
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Volvo Cars is planning to invest $500m to build a new manufacturing facility in the US, as a part of the company's long-term plan for the market. With the new plant, the carmaker aims to exceed its volume targets in the US, with plans ...
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German automaker Daimler has chosen Korean advanced battery maker LG Chem to supply lithium-ion batteries for its Smart EVs which scheduled to be launched in 2016. LG Chem highlighted that it will providing battery cells to Smart EV and ...
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Broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA is shipping production volume of its AWL6153 power amplifier (PA) in support of DJI's Phantom 2 Vision and Phantom 2 Vision+ drones. These ...
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Solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET) on March 26 decided not to distribute any dividend for 2014, according to the company. GET posted consolidated revenues of NT$15.285 billion (US$484 million), gross ...