It’s the world’s largest manufacturer of carton packaging for the food and beverage industry. Toronto private equity firm, Onex Corporation, the largest buyout firm in Canada, has agreed to buy SIG Combibloc from Rank Group New ...
Reebok International ha acquired has the U.K.-based, boxing and martial arts brand, Luta. It established a long-term alliance with Fight for Peace, a non-profit organization which combines boxing and martial arts with education and personal ...
Tags: Luta Sportswear, Sporting Goods
The store will welcome visitors to free mince pies, mulled wine and a traditional puppet show. Pollock's Toy Shop will be offering shoppers a festive treat for one night only, with a late night event of festive food and a puppet show. ...
Argos has teamed up with Transport for London (TfL) to launch its first Underground store at Cannon Street Tube station. The new Argos Collect store, which officially opened today, has been designed to give customers convenient access to ...
Tags: Underground Store, Furniture
Craig Beevers won the 2014 title with the word 'talaq'. A Brit has been crowned the World Scrabble Champion for the first time since 1993, and only the second time ever. Craig Beevers, from Guisborough near Middlesborough, competed ...
Tags: World Scrabble Champion, Toys
Posted in Medical Device Business by Chris Newmarker on November 24, 2014 Stryker executives are once again examining a possible buy of London-based Smith & Nephew and its $4.4 billion-a-year medical device business, according to a ...
Tags: Medical Device Business, Health
Canadian private equity fund Onex has agreed to acquire Switzerland-based juice-box maker SIG Combibloc Group for around €3.75bn ($4.66bn). Out of the agreed amount, Onex will pay €3.575bn ($4.44bn) at the closing of the ...
Tags: juice-box maker, Combibloc, Agriculture
The TIA is urging retailers to get their nominations in before the deadline of November 28th. Time is fast running out to enter the Toy Retailer of the Year Awards 2014. And the TIA is urging UK retailers to enter the proceedings before ...
Tags: Toy Retailer, nominations, Toys
kbb at May Design Series and kbb Birmingham, organised by UBM Live Built Environment, have announced in conjunction with the Bathroom Manufacturers Association (BMA) that £1340 has been raised for WaterAid UK by the Bathroom Industry ...
"Our mission from day one was to build the world’s biggest and safest kids marketing platform." SuperAwesome has detailed its major growth plans for the US and South East Asia. Reaching almost 200 million kids every month, ...
Tags: South East Asian Venture, Toys
SIG was previously owned by Rank Group and the takeover is expected to be formally completed in the first quarter of 2015 Onex Corporation is a private equity investment firm. It is a publicly traded company controlled by its founder ...
Tags: Private Equity Firm, Packaging
Japanese firm Mizkan foods has revealed a plan to cut 66 jobs in Bury St Edmunds, one of its three food plants in the UK. Around 350 people are employed at the Bury plant, which produces Branston Pickle, Sarson's Vinegar and Haywards ...
Tags: Slash Jobs, Food Factories, Agriculture
Smith & Nephew plc has figuratively yanked the job-security bandage off 108 employees at its St. Petersburg, FL, wound-care plant. The company plans to close the factory and lay the workers off by January 9, according to a report in the ...
Tags: Job Cuts, Smith&Nephew, Health
The first Toy & Game Inventors Workshop took place in September, as budding toy creators grasped the opportunity to pitch their ideas to some of the biggest companies in the industry. Billy Langsworthy reviews the event and explains how it ...
Tags: Toy&Game Inventors, Toys
In stand D31 at LuxLive (the UK's biggest lighting show) at ExCel London (19-20 November), Plessey of Plymouth, UK is presenting the results of its partnership with Litecool Ltd of Sheffield, UK (which manufactures heat management solutions ...
Tags: LED lighting products, LED diodes