Nike will become the official supplier of uniforms and product to International Olympic Committee members and staff from January 2013. Nike supplied competition apparel to more than 100 federations at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, ...
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Finnish retailer S Group has booked higher half-year profits on the back of improved sales. S Group today (16 August) reported a 2.9% increase in first-half profit to EUR80.6m (US$99.6m). Retail sales were up 5.8% to EUR5.84bn. The ...
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RIA Novosti reported that Estonia denied Nord Stream’s request to study areas of the Baltic Sea bed falling within the nation’s commercial waters. In August, the pipeline’s operator requested official permission from the ...
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Finnish food group Raisio is to cut jobs in its domestic market as reshapes the business to lower costs and make it more efficient. The company said the streamlining would affect 56 staff. Raisio's domestic consumer foods business will ...
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Canadian c-store chain Couche-Tard has booked an increase in first-half profits boosted by acquisitions. In the 24 weeks ended 14 October, earnings amounted to C$278.1m (US$279.7m), a 9.9% increase on the prior year period. The group said ...
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Led by the governor of Sweden's Östergötland Province, Sweden, Finland and Estonia, the Nordic and Baltic joint delegation held “ the Nordic - Jiangsu enterprises approached event” in Mar 22 in Nanjing Jinling Hotel ...
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Young companies and emerging product, furniture and textile designers will be presenting inspiring ideas and innovative textile developments at next year’s Heimtextil (9 to 12 January 2013) fair in Frankfurt, Germany. With a ...
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The 18th ‘Fashion & Textile Exhibition 2013’, considered the most important event for the textile industry in the Baltics, will be held in Riga, the capital of the Northern European nation of Latvia, from 19th to 21st April, ...
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22.11.2012 − The Latvian birch plywood manufacturer Latvijas Finieris has completed the conversion work at the birch veneer plant trading under the name of Kohila Vineer in Estonia, which was officially putting it back into service at ...
Although there are no angels with flowery wings floating yet across the catwalk of CPM Body&Beach(held in Moscow from 26 February to 1 March 2013),there is so much happening on the Russian market.According to a study conducted by the ESPER ...
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A scout hut in Aldershot has become the first to test drive Fubra Limited's new initiative to introduce young people to the world of programming. The Fubra Universe has launched as a pilot with 2nd Aldershot Scouts through a 100Mbps ...
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The steering board of the new European Cloud Partnership(ECP)has met in Brussels,kicking off the process to build an EU Digital Single Market for cloud computing. The board,which aims to make the most of the public sector's buying power ...
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The Government Digital Service (GDS) estimates it will save £1.8bn per year moving offline services to digital channels, according to a copy of its draft Digital Strategy seen by Computer Weekly. The focus of the strategy is on ...
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The UK has fewer internet freedoms than seven other countries, including Estonia and the Philippines, according to a report by Washington-based NGO Freedom House. The ranking is based on digital freedoms, such as access to the internet ...
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A souped-up version of the Galaxy S III from Samsung Electronics and Nokia's Lumia 920 and 820 are among the LTE smartphones that will go on sale in Europe during the fourth quarter. The availability of smartphones with LTE in Europe has ...