Vermont’s Original, a new company formed by Timepiece Capital and Gemini Investors, has acquired the assets of Dairy Association Company (DAC) for an undisclosed amount. Based in Vermont, DAC is the maker of Bag Balm, a salve used ...
Tags: Vermont's Original, DAC, Food
Two classic brands collaborate to create the sweet taste of success. Hasbro, Inc. has signed a global licensing agreement with PEZ International to develop a MY LITTLE PONY-branded line of PEZ dispensers, PEZ dextrose fizzy candy, and fizzy ...
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General Mills - the maker of Cheerios, Bisquick and Yoplait - has secured approval from US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the acquisition of Annie's, a natural and organic food company. The approval is given under the ...
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When the U.S. is switching to midterm election time, the media's attention is usually focused on domestic issues. It is not that international affairs are not important, but comparatively the public that is overwhelmed by local issues often ...
Tags: Foreign Policy, Policy
On Wednesday, after wee-hours bargaining that capped more than a decade of negotiations, Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation announced the signing of a 30-year gs-supply contract, estimated by the parties to be worth $400 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
A few days ago, I was in Washington, DC for a conference. On the sidelines of the conference, I met some American friends. We had an interesting discussion about China-US relations. It seems to me that a debate is going on in the United ...
Tags: China-US Relationship, Opinion
Compared with the lively scene of retail market,at the present moment, the stationery wholesale market become relatively cheerless."Open economy" seems have not much business, in recent years, two of the most thriving new terms don't have ...
China stands to gain much more than oil from deepening Western sanctions on Russia. Already in May, Moscow's tenuous international position prompted it to make concessions in order to sign a landmark gas supply agreement – the "Power ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Recently Shandong Chengkuang Environment Protection Group developed the first waste tyre intelligent production line with Korean Dongfeng Group, and 35% of the wasted will become industrial carbon black, 40% fuel oil, 15% steel wire and 10% ...
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers, has announced the sale of the gallium arsenide (GaAs) epitaxy business of its Soitec Specialty Electronics ...
Tags: sale of GaAs, IntelliEPI, Electronics
Shares in De La Rue, the company responsible for printing banknotes in England, have plunged following a profits warning. Profits for this year are now expected to be 20m lower than in 2013/14, and the company has cut its dividend. On ...
Tags: De La Rue, Profit Warning, Printing
A deferred payment of around $7.5m (4.6m) is to be made at a later date to Bates, which employs 320 people and has a 135,000 tonnes of containerboard requirement. The deal, which will be funded from Smurfit Kappa’s cash reserves, is ...
Tags: Smurfit Kappa, Deal, Printing
Exceed Company Ltd., owner of China's Xidelong athletic brand, said it is negotiating with its Chairman and CE0 Shuipan Lin to again extend the deadline for him to close on his proposed acquisition of the company following news that he had ...
Tags: Exceed Company, CE0, Recreation
Urban Barns Foods Canada, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Urban Barns Foods, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sobeys Quebec to establish a collaborative business relationship between the two businesses. The deal will see ...
Tags: MoU, Urban Barns Foods, Food