Premier Foods plc announced today (28 January) that its chief executive, Michael Clarke, has resigned. Clarke joined Premier eighteen months ago. The company said that Clarke planned to exit the group "having delivered the initial ...
Li Ning Company Limited, one of the leading sports brand companies in China, announced that its Board of Directors (the "Board") proposes to raise approximately HK$1,847.8 million to HK$1,868.6 million by way of an Open Offer of Convertible ...
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Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs threatened Palm with a patent lawsuit if it did not enter into an agreement in which the companies pledged not to hire employees from each other, unsealed court documents show. Jobs threatened Palm with ...
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Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) has settled a class action lawsuit accusing the cooperative of conspiring to control the raw milk market in the southeastern US. DFA will pay US$140m to the plaintiffs. An additional, refundable $9.3m per ...
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Power semiconductor device maker International Rectifier Corp (IR) of El Segundo, CA, USA has announced that co-founder Eric Lidow passed away on 18 January. Born in Vilnius, Lithuania (then part of Russia) over 100 years ago in 1912, ...
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NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, ...
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The Board of Directors of Novozymes has appointed Peder Holk Nielsen as President and Chief Executive Officer with effect from April 1, 2013. “I am pleased to announce that Peder Holk Nielsen will succeed Steen Riisgaard as ...
Byan Wilson, Sales & Marketing Manager of International Paper's Temple-Inland Building Products“ division, has taken over as Chairman of the Composite Panel Association (CPA) as of 1 January. Kelly Shotbolt, CEO of Flakeboard, acts ...
The UIC workgroup “Questions of palletisation” (UIC-AG), responsible for load carriers within the International Union of Railways (UIC), discontinued its long-standing working relationship with the European Pallet Association ...
Of the world’s three largest toy companies, only two have women on their Board of Directors and one has none. In the US, Hasbro has Lisa Gersh and Tracy Leinbach while Mattel has Frances Ferguson, Andrea Rich and Kathy White Lloyd, ...
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Government’s improved understanding of the food and drink manufacturing sector was one of three key themes of Food Manufacture’s Business Leaders’ Forum, which took place on Tuesday, January 15, according to the event ...
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Orange County Clothing Company (OCCC) is a local / grass roots clothing line created by long-time Huntington Beach resident, Seth Matson. OCCC focuses mostly on cool and fun tees, hoodies, hats and art which embody the So-Cal, OC beach ...
The board of directors of PPG Industries declared a regular quarterly dividend of 59 cents per share, payable March 12 to shareholders of record Feb. 22. This marks the company’s 458th consecutive dividend payment. PPG has paid ...
Xylem Inc. has reduced the energy consumption of a wastewater pumping station in Sweden by 50 percent using its Flygt Experior solution. At a second station also in Sweden, Xylem's Flygt SmartRun control system one component of the Flygt ...
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The Greater China LED industry went through consolidation in 2012 and many tier-two and tier-three firms exited the market due to continuous net losses. The effects of the consolidations will show in 2013. Since newcomers in China ...
Tags: LED Consolidations, 2012, Effects, 2013