Kraft Foods has said the split of the company in two, creating a North American grocery company and a global snacks manufacturer, will take place in October. The establishment of US grocery business Kraft Foods Group and international ...
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HP has appointed consumer health firm Kimberly-Clark's CIO Ramón F.Baez(pictured)as its new senior vice-president and global chief information officer. Baez will start on 20 August and report to John Hinshaw,who is executive vice ...
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Polish plastic packaging market was worth an estimated 2.3bn in 2011, up some 9.5% over 2.1bn a year earlier, according to a recent report released by Management Consulting Partners, an Austrian consultancy. Moreover, these figures ...
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Towers Watson has appointed Keith Harrison as head of (re)insurance brokerage business in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Based in London, Harrison joined Towers Watson with the 2002 acquisition of Denis M. Clayton & ...
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Taiwanese LED maker Genesis investing $35m this year in its China plant construction Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Genesis Photonics Inc of Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) in Tainan is scheduled to invest US$35m this year on the ...
The Board of Directors of American International Group (IAG) has elected Morris Offit as director as well as chairman of the finance and risk management committee of the board. Offit will serve as a director until the 2013 AIG's annual ...
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MARKET OVERVIEW The penetration of CNC machine tools has kept rising since 2002 and reached 29.9% in China in 2011. At present, economical CNC systems are the mainstream products in the Chinese CNC system market, while mid to high-end CNC ...
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ULIS to triple IR sensor capacity 11 Jul 2012 Investment of €20 million and move to 200mm wafers as the firm marks its tenth anniversary. ULIS 200mm CMOS wafer ULIS,the France-based manufacturer of uncooled infrared sensors for ...
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Sentinel aims to go asteroid hunting 11 Jul 2012 The first privately funded deep-space mission will map the inner solar system and track dangerous asteroids. Watchful eye:Sentinel will track near-Earth asteroids A proposed space ...
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has called for a meeting with home secretary Theresa May after an unprecedented response to his online campaign to block UK student Richard O'Dwyer's extradition to the US. O'Dwyer faces up to ten years in ...
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UCSB receives $500,000 for SSLEC as James Speck named Seoul Optodevice chair in solid-state lighting At University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) the Solid State Lighting and Energy Centre (SSLEC), a hub for research in ...
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USA-Established in 1985,Miami's Winter Music Conference is the largest music industry gathering of its kind in the world.Now in its 27th consecutive year,WMF is one of the most publicized annual music gatherings in the world.A pivotal ...
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When a blog that typically attracts 30,000 visitors a day is hit with 5.35 million, its operators had better have been prepared for what seems way too big to be called a spike. The popular SCOTUSblog, which provides news and information ...
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Bloomberg is reporting that Madison Capital Partners is exploring the sale of KraussMaffei Group, the world’s largest manufacturer of plastics equipment. Bloomberg reported the story on June 19, citing people familiar with the matter, ...
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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, has launched a campaign with the Guardian on Change.org to stop the extradition to the US of Richard O'Dwyer, a 24-year-old UK student. Change.org is described as a platform for social change, enabling ...
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