Minnesota based cereal company Post Consumer Brands is expanding its distribution operations in Salt Lake City in Utah with a $50m facility. The company has begun the construction on a 901,000ft2 facility near the Northwest Quadrant ...
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French dairy giant The Lactalis Group has offered its Italian subsidiary Parmalat a buyout offer of €637m for the 12.26% stake it doesn’t hold. The move from the Lactalis is to take 100% control of Parmalat in order to delist ...
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Where Food Comes From (WFCF) has acquired a 60% stake in California based SureHarvest for nearly $2.8m in a cash-cum-stock deal. Based in Colorado, WFCF is a North American food verification company whose controlling stake in an agri-food ...
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The Everstone Group has acquired an undisclosed stake in Mumbai-based OmniActive Health Technologies for $35m. The acquisition is aimed at accelerating Everstone's growth in the fast-expanding nutraceuticals space. OmniActive is a major ...
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China's direct investment in the U.S. is expected to grow fast in 2017, but political realties pose major downside risk to it, according to a research report by a U.S. consulting firm. Chinese companies invested a record of 45.6 billion ...
FROM electronics producers to railway contractors, Chinese businesses all face the same problems—promoting their brands overseas. One of China’s most influential commercial symbols, Lenovo, has overtaken HP as the ...
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If you were looking for a new MacBook Air, well, you didn't get one, exactly. The 13-inch Air remains. It's right there on Apple's website, same as always, after Apple's October Mac event. But there's a successor Apple wants you to buy: ...
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So, deal with it: there's no new MacBook Air. But Apple really, really wants you to consider the cheapest MacBook Pro as your alternative. There's just one problem: it costs $1,499. You do get 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM in that ...
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Sure, Apple could make software that powers both Macs and iPads. Yes, it could put touchscreens in its laptops. And yeah, it could make a hybrid device that's both a tablet and a notebook. But that would be taking the easy route. At ...
Someday we'll live in a truly wireless future, where everything is interconnected. Speeds will be so fast -- 5G and WiGig -- and the chipsets so cheap and plentiful that everything from your coffee maker to your garage door opener will have ...
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Donald Trump has a lot of talking to do these days. It's heartening, then, that he's good at it. During his highly informative meeting with The New York Times on Tuesday -- happily live-tweeted by Times journalists -- Trump touched on ...
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It's never a good idea to steal from work, even when the payload is thousands of iPhones. One now-ex senior manager at Apple supplier Foxconn has reportedly been indicted for stealing and reselling 5,700 iPhones from the Foxconn factory. ...
For the past six months I've been in the market for a new laptop, and like a lot of people, I put off making a purchase until Apple unveiled its redesigned MacBook Pros, which were officially introduced in late October and shipped last ...
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Apple's fancy new headphones for the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are the gifts that keeps on delaying. Neither the AirPods nor the BeatsX headphones have made it to market in time for the heaviest shopping window of the holiday season -- yet. A new ...
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Apple may be considering an investment in a tech fund from Japan's SoftBank Group, which is hoping to raise $100 billion. That would make it one of the world's biggest tech funds. If Apple signs on, the fund would count the world's most ...