At least 150 workers at CSR’s Viridian glass-making factories in western Sydney confront the closure of their plants and the destruction of their jobs, in the latest of the swathe of job cuts sweeping through the manufacturing sector ...
Tags: glass workers, glass, glass making factories
The Mazda 6 Celebrity Challenge at the weekend’s Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne resulted in a lot of smiles, a lot of fun and a lot of carnage. With 21 celebrities battling it out in identical 129kW/420Nm Mazda 6 diesels in ...
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Like POV have installed lights at Jimbo & Rex Jimbo & Rex is a redevelopment of an existing pub, with new interiors designed by Mim Design for Crown Melbourne. The decorative lighting design style takes its cue from Miriam Fanning's ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Construction, Decoration, Pub Decoration
ITW Retail Group, Australia's leading supplier of hardware and fasteners to the retail trade, is building a new high-tech 21,500 sqm national distribution centre (DC) at South Dandenong in Melbourne. With around 7,000 stock keeping units ...
Construction has commenced at the $1.6 billion Victorian Port Capacity Project. The work includes purpose-built road connections, an automotive facility with additional shipping berths, and 'on-dock' pre-delivery inspection facilities ...
Tags: Service, Construction, Decoration
The sharemarket closed lower today, dragged down by the four big banks. At the close of trade, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 25.5 points, or 0.5 per cent, at 5092.4. The All Ordinaries index was down 24.2 points, or 0.47 per ...
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The dollar was higher late today following strong economic data showing rising house prices in the fourth quarter of 2012 and solid gains in consumer sentiment in March. At 4.50pm AEDT, the Aussie fetched $US1.0313 compared with US$1.0282 ...
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THE Australian dollar was higher in late Asian trading yesterday after strong economic data showing rising house prices in the fourth quarter of 2012 and solid gains in consumer sentiment in March. At 5pm AEDT it was buying $US1.0314, up ...
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CSR Limited (CSR) announced today a restructure of Viridian’s glass operations and provided a trading update for the year ending 31 March 2013. Restructure of Viridian CSR’s review of Viridian has concluded that, during the ...
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Australia-based Melbourne Kosher Meats has recalled Chicken and Veal Wurst as they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ). The product associated with the recall is ...
The corporate regulator must not employ a one-size-fits-all approach to dark trading to ensure it stamps out harmful levels of activity in so-called "dark pools" without removing some of the benefits of trading away from exchanges, ...
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The PTV Group, which supplies software for mapping, routing, geocoding and optimisation, will be launching its logistics software products for the first time in Melbourne at the Advanced Logistics & Materials Handling conference, 19 – ...
The importer of Chinese brand Chery says its next generation of small cars could be even cheaper than its current crop – despite the Chery J1 already retailing as the cheapest car on the Australian market. Ateco Automotive’s ...
Tags: Chery, small cars, prices
The Mazda 6 Celebrity Challenge racers are being prepped and readied for their ensuing battle as part of this weekend’s 2013 Formula One Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. The 21 Mazda 6 Celebrity Challenge celebrities, including a ...
Tags: Mazda 6, Celebrity Challenge racers, Australian Grand Prix Battle
US-based Genuine Parts has signed a deal to completely acquire the Australia-based Exego Group for $800m. With the amount the company will acquire the 70% share of the Exego Group along with its debt, while 30% stake was acquired by the ...
Tags: Genuine Parts, Exego Group, acquisition