UK-based food producer Whitworths has selected global enterprise applications company IFS Applications 8 to improve manufacturing efficiency, stock control and supply chain forecasting. To be deployed across the whole business, supporting ...
Tags: Whitworths, IFS, Agriculture
US-based United Natural Foods (UNFI) has completed the acquisition of Tony’s Fine Foods for total consideration of about $195.3m subject to certain post-closing adjustments. Tony's will now become a wholly-owned subsidiary of ...
Tags: UNFI, Tony's Fine, Food
Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory reported its operating results for the first quarter of FY2015. The Company also announced that its Board of Directors has approved a new 3 million-share stock buyback program. The Company franchises ...
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Proxima, the global procurement services provider, announces today that it has been appointed on a multi-year contract to manage the costs of all indirect categories at Dairy Crest, the leading British dairy products company. Proxima ...
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Impacted by the US-China trade war, PV cell manufacturers’ utilization rates continued to drop in June, and thus affected manufacturers’ sales performances, according to EnergyTrend, a subsidiary of Taiwan-based market ...
Tags: PV cell, Solar Cell
Seaborne iron ore prices reversed losses Tuesday, as bullish expectations on Chinese economic performance provided stronger support for the steel raw material. Platts assessed the 62% Fe IODEX $0.75/dmt higher on day at $96/dmt CFR North ...
Epistar Corp (Taiwan’s largest manufacturer of LED epiwafers and chips) is to issue 174.612 million new shares (worth NT$10 each, totalling NT$1746.12m) to acquire fellow Taiwanese LED epiwafer and chip maker Formosa Epitaxy Inc ...
Tags: LED epiwafers, LED chips
Analog Devices Inc (ADI) of Norwood, MA, USA (which provides semiconductors for signal processing applications) has commenced a tender offer to purchase all outstanding shares of common stock of Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford, MA, USA ...
Overall like for like sales among mid-market retailers up 1% YOY in June. Increased basket sizes and targeted discounting have helped retailers shrug off the dip in footfall from the good weather and the World Cup, according to the latest ...
Tags: Toy
Speed reducer is one of three core parts of industrial robot, along with two others (drive and control device, servomotor), accounting for about 36% of the industrial robot's total cost. China has made much progress in industrial robot in ...
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched the MAAL-011078, a single-stage, low-noise, ...
Tags: M/A-COM LNA, Amplifier
Pending home sales rose sharply in May, with lower mortgage rates and increased inventory accelerating the market, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). All four regions of the country saw increases in pending sales, with ...
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Mini Luma LED street light from Philips Warrington Borough Council is replacing two thirds of the 27,000 street lights across the borough. The council is investing £25 million to upgrade its street lighting columns and ...
Tags: LED Street Lighting, LED, Street Lights, Lights
Fitment Group has launched a new product, Demand Plus, that provides tire retailers and distributors with a turnkey demand planning and competitor pricing solution. Building on the success of its fully integrated demand planning and ...
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Lululemon Athletica Inc. reported a drop in profit for the fiscal first quarter amid a tax charge tied to a share-repurchase plan and lowered its outlook for the year. Comparable-store sales for the first quarter decreased 4 percent on a ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation