WSS, the California-based neighborhood footwear retailer, is hosting a grand opening celebration on Saturday, Nov. 15 starting at 10:00 a.m. to commemorate its arrival to Las Vegas. As part of the celebration the first 200 shoppers will ...
Tags: footwear, Sporting Goods
American softdrink company Dr Pepper Snapple (DPS) has acquired Davis Beverage Group and Davis Bottling for an undisclosed amount. The transaction provides DPS with a 42-county distribution territory in eastern Pennsylvania, excluding ...
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Rigid plastic packaging manufacturer Plastipak Packaging has won a bid to acquire La Seda de Barcelona Group’s APPE Packaging Division for €360m. The investment will include a gross up of €65m that will be transferred with ...
Tags: Rigid plastic packaging, APPE Packaging Division, Agriculture
UK-based Dairy Crest has agreed to divest its Dairies operations to Müller UK & Ireland for £80m, citing slump in profits during the six months ended September. The transaction includes production plants at Foston, Chadwell ...
One Equity Partners (OEP) will go ahead with the sale of Austrian flexible packaging company Constantia Flexibles after it failed to list the company on the stock exchange. JP Morgan owns 50% of OEP and has received expressions of ...
Tags: One Equity Partners, packaging company Constantia, Agriculture
Three buyout groups - BC Partners, Onex and Partners Group - will bid for Switzerland-based carton manufacturer SIG Combibloc which is owned by New Zealand’s Reynolds. SIG was acquired by New Zealand-based businessman Graeme Hart ...
Treasury Wine Estates is planning to halt operations at its Ryecroft winery in the McLaren Vale wine region in South Australia. The move is in line with the company's strategy to curb costs and to ramp up investment in other prominent ...
Tags: wineries, Ryecroft winery, Agriculture
Sonoco has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Weidenhammer Packaging Group, Europe's leading provider of composite cans along with composite drums and rigid plastic containers, for AU$443 million, in cash. [The final consideration is ...
Magna International announced today the grand opening of DexSys, a new greenfield facility in Delta Township, Michigan, for the manufacture of automotive exterior products. Company officials were joined by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, ...
Central Glass, a parent company of Carlex Glass, announced that it has finalized pending acquisitions to expand Carlex’s business operations. Central Glass has officially acquired all of the outstanding shares of two subsidiaries of ...
Tags: Carlex Glass, OEM automakers, Auto
Audi’s car pool service, “Audi shared fleet” has been chosen by German start-up campus “Factory Berlin” to provide fleet service. Factory Berlin will be using Audi A1 Sportback, A3 Sportback e tron, Audi ...
Tags: Factory Berlin, Audi shared fleet service, mobility service, Auto
US Steel Canada announced Monday that it will lay off at least 56 workers following its decision last week to idle its Hamilton coke ovens. According to local news reports, the idling will eventually affect about 100 of the plant’s ...
Tags: coke ovens, Metallurgy
Crown Equipment Corporation, one of the world’s largest material handling companies, recently earned a Most Valuable Pollution Prevention (MVP2) Award from the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (NPPR) in the USA. This ...
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Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on October 29 approved the conversion of China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Sanan Optoelectronics' 19.9% stake in Taiwan-based Formosa Epitaxy into a 3.1% stake in Epistar, with the ...
Tags: LED epitaxial, LED chip
South Africa headquartered Sasol Limited has taken the final decision to set up an US$ 8.1 billion ethane cracker and derivatives complex at its existing site in Lake Charles, Louisiana. "At the heart of the project is an ethane cracker ...
Tags: Sasol Limited, Cracker, Textile