The Senate is expected to vote next week on an immigration bill, and it is likely to pass after one last fight to give U.S. workers hiring preference over foreigners with H-1B visas. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Sherrod Brown ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
A string of footballers and other celebrities have been accused of using an extravagant data centre construction scheme in a bid to avoid tax. The data centres, on the Cobalt business park just outside Newcastle, are completely empty two ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Financial representatives are attempting to forge a sale of some or all of chilled food firm Bakkavr’s UK facilities to 2 Sisters Food Group, according to a source within 2 Sisters. 2 Sisters has been highly acquisitive recently ...
Tags: Agriculture&Food, 2 Sisters, Bakkavor Next
Japan’s exports of hot rolled (HR) steel products totaled 1.2 million ton in April, falling by 13.1% from a month ago and rising by 22% year on year, according to data released by the Japan’s Ministry of Finance. In April, ...
Tags: HR Steel Exports, Mineral
The Pakistan Second-Hand Clothing Merchants Association (PSCMA) has called on the Government to rollback the 16 percent hike in sales tax on import of second-hand garments. In its recently released 2013-14 Budget, Pakistan ...
Tags: Pakistan, Used Garments, Apparel&Accessories
The necessity to purchase utilized plant and hardware never goes less and out of movement. Very nearly each sort of association should purchase equipped and well-performing plant and hardware. With a specific end goal to produce high ...
Tags: Utilized Steel Plant, Hardware
China Premier Li Keqiang chaired a State Council executive meeting on June 19, studying the deployment of policies and measures to support economic restructuring, transformation and upgrading. The meeting studies and nailed down policies ...
Tags: economy, private capital
Marsh will join DS Smith from Tesco where he was the group director of tax and corporate finance for three and a half years. He was also chief financial officer (CFO) at AstraZeneca and CFO of Global Building Products at Pilkington. ...
Textiles contributed US$ 621.8 million or 76 percent of the overall US$ 818 million increase in Pakistan’s exports during the first ten months of the current fiscal year over the corresponding period of previous fiscal, according to ...
Tags: Textiles, Pakistan's Export
The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation (the Foundation) has released the June 2013 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry (MCI-EFI). Designed to collect leadership data, the index reports a qualitative assessment of ...
Five thousand food jobs in Scotland and Wales have been safeguarded after the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) approved the 2 Sisters Food Group’s acquisition of Vion UK’s poultry business. About 5,000 food manufacturing jobs ...
Tags: OFT approval, 2 Sisters, Vion
HSBC has provided a £2.4m funding package to Gilbert's Foods, a food supplier based in Lancashire, UK, in order to help the company expand its export business. The funding package, which includes £2m invoice finance line and a ...
Dutch financial services firm ING has completed the sale of approximately 7.9% direct stake in Brazil-based insurance provider Sul América to International Finance Corporation (IFC). The sale follows the agreement that ING entered ...
Meat products firm Gilbert's Foods plans to invest millions in its supply chain after securing £2.4M worth of finance from HSBC. Gilbert's Foods supplies products designed for re-heating via microwave, oven, boil-in-the-bag, grill ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
G8 leaders have signed an Open Data Charter, in which all nations involved have agreed to "establish an expectation that all government data be published openly by default". All eight nations attended a summit in Northern Ireland which ...
Tags: G8, Data Charter