Brown-Forman is planning to invest an additional $20m to restore its Old Forester bourbon brand. Last year, the company had allocated $30m to establish a new distillery in Louisville, Kentucky, to produce Old Forester, which sold only ...
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 ...
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Pizza delivery chain Papa John's has relaunched its Philly Cheesesteak Pizza to cater to the growing consumer demand. Papa John's said its Philly Cheesesteak Pizza is made with fresh, never frozen original hand-tossed pizza dough, and ...
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AkzoNobel has extended its official supplier partnership with McLaren Racing. The announcement comes as McLaren-Honda gears up for this weekend's Australian GP, where the MP4-30 will showcase AkzoNobel's superior high-gloss finishes. The ...
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Maroon Group, a specialty chemical supplier of additives, resins, and pigments to the plastics industry, has been appointed by ZEOchem as the exclusive distributor of the ZEOflair product line in North America. The ZEOflair product line ...
Tags: Maroon Group, specialty chemical, additives, resins
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 ...
Online marketplace Snapdeal is the title sponsor for the three day India Fashion Forum (IFF) which begins from today and runs till March 20 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Goregaon, Mumbai. In its 15th year, IFF is regarded as a ...
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 ...
New Zealand based dairy co-operative Fonterra has agreed to acquire 18.8% stake worth $561.32m in Chinese infant formula manufacturer, Beingmate Baby & Child Food Company. The co-operative group has purchased 192.4 million shares in ...
Tags: Fonterra, dairy Food
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
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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Seren Photonics Ltd of Pencoed Technology Park, UK (which was spun off from the University of Sheffield in February 2010) has launched its next generation of semi-polar gallium nitide (GaN) on sapphire templates. This latest generation of ...
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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 ...