Union bosses are seeking urgent meetings with the new owners of Heinz after it was snapped up by a consortium led by US investor Warren Buffett in a shock pound 18bn deal. In the can: Warren Buffet’s consortium has snapped up the ...
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Investment firms Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital have entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire American food company HJ Heinz for $28bn in cash, including the assumption of Heinz’s outstanding debt. ...
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UK-based sugar products manufacturer Ragus has opened a new plant at Slough Trading Estate, Berkshire, which will produce specialist sugars. The company noted that the facility is equipped with advanced equipment for efficient drying, ...
John Lewis, the UK department store retailer, is running a trial of graphic epaper display systems at its Exeter store. Manufacturer ZBD has supplied the epaper displays and Pierhouse has provided the retail information and pricing ...
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27 million new malware strains found in 2012, at an average of 74,000 new samples per day BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND, February 08, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- PandaLabs, the antimalware laboratory of Panda Security, has released its 2012 Annual ...
Giving the soft drink Juice Burst a fresh look was only one part of the rebranding exercise. A key issue was to incorporate the very latest smartphone technology – that and exploding fruit, discovers Philip Chadwick The brief ...
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Jeff Hoffman has been named president of Staco Energy Products Co. effective immediately. Hoffman’s background includes various positions in sales, marketing and executive management at companies such as United Technologies, Emerson ...
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IT applications integrator and reseller 2e2 has entered administration, after weeks of negotiations with investors failed to find a solution for the Berkshire-based firm's £270m debts. Some 319 UK sales and admin staff have already ...
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Waitrose has put 420 jobs at risk by ending one of its distribution contracts with logistics firm Kuehne + Nagel. Waitrose has put 420 jobs at risk The global logistics firm employs the 420 workers on lease to Waitrose at its centre ...
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Allied World Financial Services,a subsidiary of Allied World Assurance Company,has agreed to acquire a minority ownership interest in a privately held asset management firm Crescent Capital Group. Further terms of the transaction have not ...
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BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND, January 10, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- City Lifeline, the central London colocation data centre, has today announced a partnership with telecoms solution experts, Dolphin Communications. This new partnership will provide ...
Tags: Dolphin Communications, Telephony System, colocation data, VoIP
Spartan Motors has sold the majority of its Wakarusa,Indiana plant to the Forest River,a recreational vehicle unit of Berkshire Hathaway,in order to move its operations to new plant in Bristol,Indiana in the US. The sale is a part of the ...
Safelite Group Inc. said Friday it has purchased North Andover-based Giant Glass Co. Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The sale, rumored for more than a week, was completed Monday, ending 34 years of local ownership by Dennis Drinkwater and ...
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BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND, July 12, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- In a world in which people have become entirely dependant on their iPhones and Smartphones for personal and professional use, it goes hand in hand that they take their essential ...
Tags: Smartphones, iPhones, key motivator, Monetary Value
New solutions provide complete protection against all kinds of threats with minimum impact on PC performance thanks to their cloud technologies The new Scan Manager scans up to 70 percent faster BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND, September 09, 2012 ...
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