The European Commission (EC) has given its approval for the acquisition of Austria-based Constantia Flexibles by French investment group Wendel Group for €2.3bn ($2.8bn). Constantia Flexibles specialises in producing foil, paper ...
Tags: Constantia Flexibles, plastic-film packaging, packaging
Stadium Capital Management, LLC (SCM) said it has notified Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp. that it will nominate three "highly qualified, independent candidates" to serve on the retailer's board at Big 5's 2015 annual meeting expected to be held ...
Tags: Big 5, Proxy Battle
RPM International Inc. has announced that its Rust-Oleum Group has acquired Spraymate Group, the producer of South Africa's leading aerosol paint brand. Based outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, Spraymate has annual net sales of ...
Tags: RPM International, aerosol paint
As part of the Indian government's second phase of national urban renewal mission, state transport authorities have placed orders for more than 4,000 buses from Tata Motors. The Economic Times cited Tata Motors Commercial Vehicles ...
The world's largest textile and garment manufacturing technology show, ITMA 2015 is expected to draw over 100,000 visitors from around the world. To encourage early registration, the organisers are offering special rates to visitors ...
Net income for the thirteen weeks ended January 31, 2015 at The Children's Place, Inc, a pure-play children's specialty apparel retailer in North America was up from same period of previous year. Net income for the reporting quarter stood ...
Chemicals giant Ineos has started a community consultation process in a bid to gain support for fracking. The firm's consultation process will start in mid-April with a series of "town hall" meetings, beginning in areas where it already ...
It is reported that a transportation company executive in Vietnam Hanoi complained that although his company has been looking for heavy trucks in last two months, they still can not get satisfactory heavy-duty truck. Because there are not ...
The Scotch whisky market in the UK has shrunk by almost 5% as consumers and industry continue to be impacted by the heavy tax regime. The tax is approximately 80% as a share of the price of an average bottle of the drink. The figures, ...
Tags: Scotch Whisky Market, Fairer Tax, Whisky
Astro Teller explained the company’s decision to remove the steering wheel and brakes from the early prototypes of its 'driverless' vehicles. Google’s vision was short lived thanks to the California department of motor ...
Tags: Steering Wheel, Google, Self-Driving Cars
Cadillac has announced that the company will use an advanced mixed-material for the development of lightweight body structure in CT6 sedan. According to Cadillac, the structure is aluminum intensive but use 13 different materials in the ...
Global fast food restaurant chain McDonald's has announced a decrease in global comparable sales of 1.7 per cent in February 2015, continuing a downward trend. In the Asia Pacific region, the Middle East and Africa, sales decreased by ...
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Foot Locker, Inc. reported fourth-quarter earnings rose 18.0 percent to $146 million, or $1.01 a share, easily eclipsing Wall Street's target. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to $1 per share, beating Wall Street's consensus ...
China is toughening its examination of milk powder imported from New Zealand, according to the quality control watchdog, after revelations emerged on Tuesday of a criminal threat to contaminate some products with an agricultural poison. ...
Tags: Milk Powder, Raw Milk
Britain’s MPs have voted in favour of the introduction of plain standardised cigarette packaging from May 2016. Once implemented, England will be the third country to introduce such a law after Australia and Ireland. While this ...
Tags: cigarette packaging, Packaging