One of the UK's longest established renewables companies, Dulas Ltd, has been awarded a £4.3m contract by housing association First Wessex to install solar PV technology on up to 1,000 of its affordable homes across the south of ...
Tags: Solar PV, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Following a strong pace of production in the first quarter of 2013, manufacturing production eased in the second quarter but should accelerate growth, according to the quarterly Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation U.S. ...
Monitor Liability Managers has rolled out ExecSuite Executive Liability Insurance, a complete suite of insurance coverages that can be customized to address the specific needs of private organizations. With ExecSuite, business ...
Nokia's outgoing CEO Stephen Elop is to receive €18.8m ($25.5m) from Nokia and Microsoft due to contractual clauses pertaining to a change in control of the company. Revealed in a "proxy materials" document by Nokia, Elop's payout ...
Tags: Nokia, Microsoft, Computer Products
Conestoga Meat Packers, a Breslau, Ontario-based pork processor, is set to boost production capacity of its facility in the Kitchener-Waterloo region by one-third, while creating 100 new jobs. The company will invest more than C$14m ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, meat packaging
The president of J.E. Berkowitz LP credits his company's "new age" hires for largely sparing the company from the shortage of qualified labor that is being felt nationally. Arthur Berkowitz says his Pedricktown, N.J.-based architectural ...
Tags: Glass, Construction
Retail sales increased in the month of August but came in at a much slower pace than anticipated. According to the National Retail Federation (NRF) – the world’s largest retail trade association – August retail sales ...
Tags: Sporting goods
Editor's note: Just in time for pre-Interbike reading, BRAIN's longtime legal analyst, Steve Hansen, takes a look at the implications of recent employer liability cases involving hosting parties where alcohol was served or was present. ...
Tags: Transportation
Creechurch International in collaboration with Hiscox is planning to offer kidnap, ransom and extortion (K&R) coverage to the citizens of Canada, to help families cope with the threat of kidnapping and other similar risks. Through Hiscox, ...
Tags: Creechurch, Hiscox
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, Government of India, has approved the continuation of the centrally sponsored scheme of Catalytic Development Programme (CDP) of the Ministry of Textiles, relating to sericulture sector, during the ...
Germany is the country where most Spanish apparel firms plan to expand this year in Europe. This was one of the conclusions of the 2013 edition of Fashion Business Barometer in Spain, a study sponsored by vente-privee.com and developed by ...
Tags: Apparel Firms
Retail sales increased in the month of August but came in at a much slower pace than anticipated. According to the National Retail Federation (NRF) – the world's largest retail trade association – August retail sales (excluding ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
The National Retail Federation (NRF) welcomed the announcement that District of Columbia Mayor Vincent C Grayâs vetoed the Large Retailer Accountability Act, which would have set an arbitrarily-high wage scale for select national ...
LyondellBasell announced that it has entered into a new contract with CEO James L. Gallogly and taken other steps to ensure continued strong leadership and executive continuity at the company. "The company has been transformed in recent ...
Tags: LyondellBasell, Textile
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank Group, is insuring a cashmere scouring and disinfection facility in Heart province of Afghanistan. The MIGA-supported project will ...
Tags: Miga Insures