Nestle has declined to comment on a report claiming it could sell US$1bn of assets in Latin America in order to secure final regulatory approvals for its Pfizer nutrition unit acquisition. Nestle is looking to sell the assets to ...
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Austrian flexible packaging group Constantia Flexibles has completed the acquisition of 100% of Globalpack in Mexico. The parties have not disclosed the purchase price of the transaction. Constantia Flexibles CEO Thomas Unger said, "With ...
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A new forecast by market researchers at ElectroniCast Consultantssuggests that the market for devices used in commercial free-space optical (FSO) communications systems will near-double by 2018. However, such is the niche appeal of the ...
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In Volume 5,Issue 1 of Prime magazine,Jonathan Tulkoff,the president of Uniwire International Ltd.discusses the current situation and future prospects for the import/domestic dynamic in the US wire rod market. The end of 2011 was marked ...
At the SteelOrbis Fall '11 Conference & 65th IREPAS Meeting held in St. Petersburg on September 25-27,we had the opportunity to discuss about the situation in the steel markets and about emerging markets with Kevin Geybels, West Africa ...
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Atlas Copco has won 2 large orders from mining customers in South and Central America, worth a total USD 30 million. One is from Minera Panama to deliver drilling equipment and related services for the Cobre Panama open pit copper project. ...
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MNA reported that the National Development Fund of Iran has allocated USD 3 billion for financing petrochemical projects. IRNA report said that the sum will be channeled into 11 petrochemical projects, mainly in the west and the south of ...
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German conglomerate Siemens'IT and engineering subsidiary in Brazil,Chemtech has successfully ended a consultancy developed for Brazilian aluminum producer CBA,part of local conglomerate Votorantim,in the municipality of ...
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Mattel is preparing a multi-million dollar marketing campaign for Thomas & Friends. The classic kids' brand will get a global 'Anytime is Thomas Time' ad campaign, a new online portal, more live events across North America and possibly ...
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Tehran Times reported that Iran inaugurated a large petrochemical complex, with a projected annual output of 300,000 tonnes of high density polyethylene, in the western province of Kermanshah on Tuesday. The report said that the ...
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“The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” (Gordon Gecko in “Wall Street” by Oliver Stone) Commodities have experienced a renaissance after the bursting of the internet bubble at the end of the ...
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The annual CES trade show in Las Vegas gets under way this weekend with big announcements from gadget makers keen to wow and convince us they have the next big thing. But it's worth remembering that some of the promises and predictions made ...
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Netflix, which faced an interruption of its video streaming service on Christmas Eve, had problems again on Monday related to its DVD website. "Reports of an @Netflix outage today are wrong: Streaming is fine. DVD delivery is fine," said ...
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For a country with one of the largest reserves of natural resources in the world,the transformational potential of India's resources sector is immense.The sector has the potential to add USD 1 trillion to the Indian economy that can ...
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As the photovoltaics sector transitions to emerging markets and away from Europe, analyst company NPD Solarbuzz is predicting a massive rise in demand for solar energy across Latin America and the Caribbean over the next five years. ...
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