Soft drinks firm Britvic has signalled its willingness to either renegotiate the terms of its merger with business rival AG Barr or abandon the deal, after the Competition Commission issued a final approval today (July 9) Britvic is ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Soft drink
Food continues to outshine clothing at posh retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S), according to the firm's first quarter results, covering the 13 weeks to June 29 2013. Food sales continues to outshine general merchandise at M&S Total UK food ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
SoftBank plans to invest $16 billion in capital improvements at Sprint in the next two years, CEO Masayoshi Son said days before the acquisition closes on Wednesday. Separately, as expected, Clearwire's shareholders on Monday approved ...
Clearwire shareholders approved Sprint Nextel's takeover of their company on Monday, ending a saga that had included years of uncertainty and finally a bidding war for the spectrum-rich wireless network operator. Sprint co-founded ...
Tags: Computer Products, 4G, softwrae, wireless network
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved the $21.6 billion acquisition of Sprint by Japanese telecommunications group Softbank, saying it promises to bring consumers faster and more advanced wireless broadband Internet ...
Tags: softbank, service, economy, Computer Products
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is to unveil a major restructuring of the software giant on Thursday. The aim, according to sources, is to achieve "functional coherence" and to better align people with corporate goals. That will mean cutting ...
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On July 8, OSRAM Licht AG started trading with ticker symbol "OSR" on the Frankfurt and Munich stock exchange. Wolfgang Dehen, CEO of Osram, said that the listing marks the beginning of a new chapter in Osram's history of more than 100 ...
Osram Licht AG formally splits from Siemens to become a pure-play lighting company with 80% of the shares initially owned by current Siemens shareholders. Osram Licht AG announced on Friday, July 5, 2013 that its spinoff from Siemens was ...
The Chinese government has been busy probing Western firms this week. On Monday, the country announced it would investigate EU wine dumping into the Chinese market, an action that could see prices hiked on imported wine this year. On ...
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OSRAM Licht AG today started trading on the Frankfurt and Munich stock exchange under the ticker symbol “OSR”. “Today’s listing marks the beginning of a new chapter in the company’s more than 100-year history ...
Stevanato Group strengthens its market position by acquiring the majority stake of InnoScan, a Danish manufacturer of state of the art high-speed inspection machines for the pharmaceutical industry. Through this acquisition ...
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OPEL Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada – which develops III-V semiconductor devices and processes through US affiliate OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT, USA – says that at its Annual General & ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, solar operations
Dell's special committee has advised company founder, and prospective new owner, Michael Dell, to raise his acquisition offer following an improved counter-offer by rival Carl Icahn and his associate investors. The independent committee, ...
ArthroCare, a US-based surgical devices, instruments, and implants manufacturer, has completed the purchase of ENTrigue Surgical, a privately held Delaware firm, in an all-cash deal of $45m. ENTrigue is involved in the designing and ...
Tags: Arthrocare, Entrigue Surgical
Sembcorp Industries (Sembcorp) announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sembcorp Utilities, has signed an agreement to invest NOK30 million (approximately S$6.4 million) in Biowater Technology (Biowater), a Norwegian-based company that ...
Tags: Service