Macy’s Inc. reported strong third quarter earnings that underscore the company’s continued progress in implementing key business strategies to drive growth. Earnings were 36 cents per diluted share for the third quarter of 2012, ...
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XL Foods' plant in Alberta, Canada, which was at the center of a national beef recall, has resumed operations under its new owner - JBS USA. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) had suspended the license of the plant on 27 September ...
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Lincoln Financial has appointed Ellen Cooper as the executive vice president and chief investment officer, effective from 6 August 2012. Cooper, who joins Lincoln Financial from Goldman Sachs Asset Management, will be responsible for ...
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Andrew Price has been appointed as a non-executive director of troubled paper company Paperlinx. Price earlier this year tried to unseat Harry Boon as chairman of Paperlinx, which has been the subject of a far-reaching strategic review ...
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Cegedim Relationship Management (CRM) and IMS Health will extend their present partnership to offer analytic, implementation and support services in support of the Mobile Intelligence cloud-based CRM suite. The pre existing agreement ...
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Administrative formalities for implementing EU’s Autonomous Trade Preference (ATPs) to Pakistan are underway and they are likely to be implemented from October 2012, Munawar Saeed Bhatti, Pakistan’s Ambassador to Brussels and ...
The crisis ridden textile industry heaved a sigh of relief consequent to the announcement of textile debt restructuring package of Rs.35,000 crores by the Finance Ministry following the concerted efforts made by The Southern India ...
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Containerboard and corrugated packaging products producer Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) has reported a rise in net income for the third quarter of 2012 at $53m compared to $43m in third quarter of 2011. Net sales during the ...
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As olive proves to be developing its profile as a healthy snack, Denmark-based Plus Pack has designed the packaging solution for it. Whether they be green, purple or black or pitted, stuffed or spiced, or Kalamata olives, or Nicoise, or ...
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Marks & Spencer (M&S) has published a new set of chemical commitments agreed in conjunction with Greenpeace. The commitments relate to the safe use of chemicals in textile production. They are now part of the M&S approach to managing ...
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November 29, 2012 EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — November 29, 2012 — (NYSE:GE) — When Havertys Furniture (Atlanta, Ga.) evaluated its lighting portfolio across all 122 of its retail locations, the Southeast-region retailer wanted ...
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Fiat Group has selected the German automotive supplier Continental to develop a new infotainment system for use in its vehicles. Series production of the new infotainment system will start in July 2012 and later will be launched as a ...
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Global medical packaging company SteriPack Group is set to extend its implementation of QAD Enterprise Applications Life Science Edition. The company is implementing QAD Enterprise Applications at its first US based operations, with ...
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The price of lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles (EV) is expected to drop by 17% by 2025, due to increasing oil prices and severe fuel economy standards which push automakers to produce more EVs. According to a study conducted ...
It has been over a year in the making but Chevrolet has become the first of nine manufacturers to integrate Apple's Siri personal voice assistant into its MyLink infotainment system,with the Spark and Sonic LTZ and RS to gain the feature ...
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