John Lewis outlined its support for UK manufacturing by setting a two-year 15 per cent growth target for all sales of goods in its shops that are made in the UK. Sales of UK-sourced products at John Lewis totalled £480m in 2012, ...
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Hewlett-Packard's board of directors has received a major infusion of software know-how, with the addition of former Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie . Ozzie is one of three new board members HP announced Monday, along with ...
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EE, the joint venture between France Telecom's Orange and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile, is to start offering its business customers data sharing plans across entire fleets of mobile devices. The UK's biggest mobile operator, and currently ...
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Leon's Furniture, its Brick Group subsidiary, the Hudson's Bay Company and Sears Canada have all launched independent fundraising initiatives to add those affected by the recent flooding disaster in Calgary and other parts of southern ...
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Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) has received a $100m minority investment from the merchant banking division of Goldman Sachs in a deal that APT describes as the largest investment in predictive analytics to date. Further reading How ...
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The Orillia Hometown store’s mattress department features a 50-unit display, focusing on Sears Canada’s private-label Whole Home label. Martin and Angela Russell, owners of the new Sears Hometown store in Orillia, Ontario, ...
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DETROIT — To celebrate their 100th anniversaries, officials from Serta Restokraft and Gardner-White Furniture partnered to help the Motor City's Ronald McDonald House, which serves families of sick children who are undergoing hospital ...
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Samson Investment Holding entered into a contract last month to buy the Hamilton Square showroom building here at 101 S. Hamilton St. A document filed with the Guilford County Register of Deeds provides for a closing date of June 27, but ...
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Mozilla has effectively postponed Firefox's controversial third-party cookie-blocking policy for several months. Yesterday, the open-source developer announced it was collaborating with a new initiative, dubbed "Cookie Clearinghouse," or ...
Alcatel-Lucent will refocus on IP networking and ultra-broadband access in mobile and fixed-line networks as it seeks to return to profitability by 2015. Announcing the company's "Shift Plan" in Paris on Wednesday, CEO Michel Combes said ...
US agribusiness firm Cargill has opened a $40m chicken processing facility at its complex in Efremov, Russia, marking the company's first primary chicken processing operations in Russia. The facility will primarily supply McDonald's ...
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Sears Canada Inc. announced that it has reached an agreement with Grand National Apparel Inc. to exclusively launch Matthew McConaughey's new just keep livin (JKL) brand clothing line. Sears will begin offering JKL apparel in store and ...
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For the kickoff of Microsoft's annual North American TechEd conference, the company is urging administrators and IT professionals to think of it as the provider of the "Cloud OS." Microsoft announced a sweeping range of updates to its ...
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Ford employees displaced by the impending closure of the company’s Victorian manufacturing plants will benefit from an additional $25.1 million thanks to fresh support pledged by the car maker and the Federal Government. In a joint ...
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McDonald's, US-based fast food restaurant chain, has introduced three new flavors of Quarter Pounder Burger – made with 100% beef. This move comes as part of the company's efforts to evolve its menu with more food and beverage ...
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