Fashion retail chain O’Neill Europe has undergone a major IT consolidation to cut costs and use information more efficiently in a difficult trading market. The company works with 34 distributors in Europe, each previously with its ...
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Reuters reported that Chilean miner Antofagasta Minerals has submitted its USD 600 million Oxidos Encuentro copper project for environmental approval in Chile. The London listed miner hopes the project, in the Centinela Mining District in ...
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In light of the growth of construction industry in Qatar, Danube Group, the Dubai based company announced the opening of another showroom in Doha, Qatar in association with Dyarco. The showroom was inaugurated by Mr Shaikh Badr Al Wahab ...
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Solar Gard® a company of Saint-Gobain and global leader in the development, manufacturing and distribution of specialty films and backsheet materials, opened its new facility in Qingdao, China, today. Located in the Shandong province, ...
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Spanish automobile manufacturer SEAT is investing EUR800m at its Martorell plant in Spain, where it has started production of the new Leon hatchback. The investment will primarily be put into vehicle research and development, and ...
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Commercial vehicle manufacturer Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus (MFTBC) has merged its subsidiaries PABCO and Fuso Tech to form a new company under the name PABCO. According to the company, the new merger will reduce order-to-delivery time ...
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The glass and metal packaging manufacturer has launched RinGo, which is claimed to be 20% lighter that the standard pack. In addition, Ardagh said that the user can drain the whole content. A necked in top, as opposed to the straight wall ...
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US based automotive manufacturer General Motors is planning to close its Honeoye Falls hydrogen fuel-cell research facility and relocate it to Michigan. The move will see GM shift the Honeoye Falls operations, including research and ...
Global revenue for platform as a service(PaaS)will grow consistently for five years from 2012 to reach$2.9bn in 2016,up from$900m in 2011,according to research firm Gartner. But as the platform-as-a-service delivery model grows,it will ...
Online hotel-booking giant Priceline.com plans to acquire Kayak,another Internet-based travel company,for$1.8 billion in cash and stock,the companies announced Thursday. Priceline will pay about$500 million in cash and$1.3 billion in ...
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IDG News Service-Google released a Chrome browser update with a video decoding enhancement that the company claims will help users save battery life. The feature,available for Chrome on Windows,cuts power consumption by executing video ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon.com's cloud services division, has claimed that more than 300 government agencies and 1,500 education institutions in the US are now using AWS for a wide variety of uses including "big data" analytics, ...
Having recruited 750 new employees in 2012, the Group has now announced 480 new jobs in France for next year Paris, September 13, 2012 – Fives, the industrial engineering group, continues to recruit new people to meet the ...
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Exports of U.S.-made construction equipment grew 24 percent and totaled $13.7 billion for the first half of 2012 compared to January-June 2011, according to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). The off-road equipment ...
Exports of American-made agricultural machinery increased 29% to total $7.2 billion for the first half of 2012 compared to January-June 2011, according to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers. The off-road equipment manufacturing ...