Mutual life insurers and employee benefits provider The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian) has acquired Coloradao-based Reed Group. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Reed Group assists customers in reducing ...
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A study found that at the end of 2012, 51% of secure IT networks were breached from employees using personal devices. While over half of large organisations experienced breaches in security, only 25% of small business experienced the ...
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UK confectioner County Confectionery has secured funding that it hopes will enable it to double its turnover by increasing production and growing exports. The privately-owned Cornwall-based firm said today (7 January) it aims to double ...
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US based insurance brokerage and risk management firm Marsh & McLennan Agency (MMA) has acquired Liscomb Hood Mason Co, a $2.2m Minnesota based revenue agency. Detailed terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Founded in 1927, ...
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US-based Lake Norman Benefits has acquired employee benefits practice from Aquesta Bank and its wholly owned subsidiary, Aquesta Insurance Agency, for an undisclosed sum. Commenting on the deal, Lake Norman Benefits president and CEO ...
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The Segal Group has incorporated its Fiduciary Liability Insurance Practice as its subsidiary and renamed it as Segal Select Insurance Services. The company has also appointed Brian Smith as chief operating officer of the renamed entity. ...
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Computerworld - Employers in Illinois and California cannot ask for usernames and passwords to the personal social media accounts of employees and job seekers under laws that took effect on Jan. 1. Illinois Gov. Patrick Quinn in August ...
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Kumba final results for the year ended 31 December 2011.Record safety,exports,earnings and dividends. Commenting on the results,Kumba Iron Ore("Kumba")CEO Chris Griffith said:"Driven by export volume growth and a 26%increase in iron ...
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Taiyuan Iron and Steel Group Co Ltd,the world's largest stainless steel producer by output,plans to increase its product exports by about 52%to 500,000 metric tonnes next year. Experiencing a weak market at home and overseas,it will ...
Founded in 1911,StandardAero is one of the world's largest independent aviation service businesses.StandardAero specialises in maintenance,repair and overhaul for commercial,air transport,military,business and general aviation,industrial ...
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Kumba Iron Ore (Kumba) confirms that engagement is continuing with the less than 300 employees who embarked on an illegal strike on Wednesday, 3 October 2012, at the Company's Sishen Mine in the Northern Cape. The strikers are demanding a ...
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NAPA (National Automotive Parts Association), a leader in the auto parts industry, is well known across the United States with over 6,100 NAPA Auto Parts stores nationwide. The NAPA distribution center in Coppell, TX supplies these stores ...
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Warburtons is to close its Blackpool bread roll bakery with the loss of 55 jobs. Warburtons is to close its Blackpool bread roll bakery The plant’s 84 workers have been in a 90-day consultation period, which came to a close ...
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On his 75th birthday on December 28th Friday, and the final day as TATA Group chairman, Mr Ratan Tata spent time visiting TATA Motors facilities in Pimpri Chinchwad and interacting with the employees rather that spending the day in Mumbai, ...
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Kopin Corp of Taunton, MA, USA, a supplier of III-V semiconductor products and microdisplays for mobile applications (including smartphones, tablet PCs, military thermal weapons sights and wearable computers), says that, as required by ...
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