Automakers from around the world have made a significant impact on the 2013 Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) ranking of the most innovative companies. Traditionally the realm of technology and telecommunications companies, automotive ...
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Mattress industry veteran Normand Ricard has taken back the company he founded almost 40 years ago, having acquired what is now known as Rev Sleep Corp. from Bedford Capital, a private equity firm based here. The terms of the deal, which ...
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Australia's ports must adopt cutting-edge technology to navigate a global downturn in shipping and a looming lull in the local mining boom, according to an international transport specialist. Terry Bills is the 'GIS in Transportation' ...
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SK Capital, a private investment firm with a disciplined focus on the specialty materials, chemicals and healthcare sectors, is expected to close the acquisition of the Textile Chemicals, Paper Specialties and Emulsions businesses from ...
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Seattle Bike Supply has promoted John "JQ" Quattrocchi to vice president of purchasing and product development and Rickey Strawn to national sales manager as the Accell Group-owned distributor positions for growth in 2014. "These ...
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Equistone Partners Europe, a private equity firm, has acquired a majority stake in Whitworths, a UK-based supplier of dried fruit, nut and seed products, from European Capital in a deal which valued the company at £90m. Whitworths, ...
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SK Capital, a private investment firm with a disciplined focus on the specialty materials, chemicals and healthcare sectors, is expected to close the acquisition of the Textile Chemicals, Paper Specialties and Emulsions businesses from ...
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Limoneira, a US-based agribusiness firm, has acquired a privately owned company Associated Citrus Packers (ACP) of Arizona in a deal valued at around $18.6m. ACP owns about 1,300 acres of property in Yuma, Arizona, comprising ...
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When I was a kid, my mother used to say: "No one wants to hear you blow your own horn." "But if I don't, who will?" I'd say to her. Okay, maybe I was an obnoxious kid. But perhaps its time for warehousing, distribution and supply chain ...
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Systems management software vendor BMC Software has finally completed the deal that will take into private ownership. The $6.4bn deal will see BMC fall into the hands of private equity companies Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital. ...
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Elders Limited has agreed terms with its existing financiers to renew and extend its syndicated finance facilities to 31 December 2014, as part of a comprehensive plan to secure the repositioning and sustainability of the company as a pure ...
Guardian Life Insurance, a mutual life insurer and a provider of employee benefits, has appointed Caitlin Pincus as senior vice president of Strategy & Guardian Labs and Dean Del Vecchio as senior vice president and chief information ...
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Lancashire Holdings’ proposed plan to acquire Cathedral Capital Limited, a privately owned Lloyd's insurer, in an all-cash deal worth £266m, has been approved by its shareholders. The transaction, originally signed on 7 ...
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International product and supply chain standards setter GS1 has added packaging sustainability to its raft of data tracking capabilities, announcing it has joined The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) and released a new standard, the Global ...
Turkey's largest integrated steelmaker Erdemir announced that its chairman and deputy managing director Fatih Tar has resigned. Erdemir deputy chairman Nihat Karadag will become deputy managing director. Nihat Karadag previously held the ...
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