Flavors Holdings, the parent of Mafco Worldwide Corporation, a manufacturer of licorice extract and related derivatives, announced today that it has acquired Merisant Company, a manufacturer and marketer of several of the world's leading ...
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Switzerland-based dairy establishment Emmi will divest Trentinalatte, the yogurt manufacturer acquired in Italy in 2006, to The Livia Group. The move comes as Trentinalatte is anticipated to face decline in profits over the future, Emmi ...
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Halberd Corporation subsidiary I-TAP announced that Anheuser-Busch InBev has scheduled a test of the I-TAP beer dispensing system at their research and development draught room in St. Louis. Anheuser-Busch InBev is the leading global ...
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There is a saying about how soccer is perceived in three big nations: Americans are not interested in watching soccer games but are good at playing it; Chinese like watching it but are poor players; Indians are neither fond of it nor able ...
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Japanese auto electronics parts maker Rohm Semiconductor has set up its new R&D Centre in Bangalore. With this, the company has chalked out plans to play a major role in the Indian automotive electronics market. Talking to Autocar ...
UPS recently gave me a tour of the company’s 5.2 million square foot Worldport facility in Louisville, KY. This overnight shipping/sorting facility accepts, sorts, and reloads at a rate of 416,000 packages per hour (that’s 115 ...
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The Blaenau Gwent plant closure plan was announced earlier this year with the loss of 67 jobs. The company is switching its carton packaging operation to its plant in Milton Keynes. It also faces an impairment charge of 1.4m in relation ...
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Nobia (NOBI.ST) has received an offer to divest its French kitchen chain Hygena to Fournier SA, which manufactures and sells kitchens under the brands Mobalpa, Perene and SoCoo'c. Nobia intends to respond to the offer after consultation ...
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According to the monthly sectoral confidence survey released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the confidence index* for the construction sector in Turkey, which stood at 82.2 points in August of the current year, increased by ...
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US-based paper manufacturing company International Paper will be investing $90m to restart an idle machine at its container board mill that will help in creating 65 new jobs. The machine has been out of use for the past five years. ...
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Grohe, bathroom sanitaryware manufacturer, has been nominated for the German Sustainability Award, which aims to promote sustainable excellence. The company – one of three shortlisted for the Resource Efficiency 2014 special award ...
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FRIEDRICHSCHAFEN, Germany -- ZF Friedrichshafen has bought TRW Automotive, based in Livonia, MI, creating a huge powerhouse in the first-tier automotive supplier world with combined sales of more than C$42 billion and 138,000 employees ...
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Packaging company PPi technologies has invested $5.4m on a new 100,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Sarasota. The new plant will help the company tackle the increase in demand for filling pouches. The facility demonstrates machines ...
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Bayer AG CEO Marijn Dekkers said Thursday’s announcement it will separate its MaterialScience business won’t have an immediate impact on local operations at one of the Pittsburgh region’s biggest employers. Bayer ...
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Kemet Corp. was among the biggest gainers on the Russell 2000 for September 18 as the stock popped 5.13% to $4.71, representing a gain of $0.23 per share. Some 183,200 shares traded hands on 749 trades, compared with an average daily volume ...
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