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 Australian dollar has broken through the 103 US cent mark to reach its highest level in almost three weeks, helped along by weakness in its New Zealand counterpart. At 7am AEDT on Wednesday, the currency was trading at 103.21 US ...
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Jenni Staves, Environmental Manager at British Glass, reviews the current Climate on Carbon and Sustainability. Originally I set out to write an overview of the current consultation on structural changes to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme ...
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Blue Competition Cycles, which was purchased late last year by Lake Rudd Capital Partners, has signed 10 new international distributors, the company announced Monday. "As we continue to grow Blue Competition Cycles, it's exciting to have ...
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New Zealand took the top spot, followed by Norway and Sweden Canada is the fourth-best country in the world to be a working woman, according to The Economist’s glass-ceiling index release. Using data from the Organization for ...
Methanex Corporation announced plans to increase operating capacity at its New Zealand operations by 700,000 tonnes to 2.2 million tonnes by the end of 2013. Methanex has secured a new natural gas supply agreement, which will enable the ...
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Gov. Bobby Jindal, South Louisiana Methanol CEO Barry Williamson and Todd Corp. Group CEO Jon Young announced that South Louisiana Methanol LP will invest $1.3 billion in a new methanol production facility on the banks of the Mississippi ...
Separate final bids have been placed by the US private equity firms Blackstone and TPG Capital as well as a consortium led by Chinese agribusiness company New Hope to acquire Australia's leading poultry processor Inghams Enterprises. The ...
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According to the report, a “senior Whitehall source” said that the government is convinced that branding is a key factor in why young people start to smoke. The source added that the legislation will follow Australia’s new ...
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The Merino Company (TMC) has acquired renowned spinning facility NUYARN®, strengthening its fabric and garment offerings to the outdoor, fashion, performance socks and seamless markets. Since its beginnings some 14 years ago in ...
Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet will go on sale in Europe in the second quarter priced somewhere around $1,170, while a local telco is now reselling the latest editions of its Office 365 hosted productivity suite, the company announced ahead ...
Asobi is distributing a new Seedling Pocket Money range to UK toy retail. The firm first introduced Seedling to the UK and Ireland last year. Products in the new Pocket Money offering range from 69p to £8.50. They include spitting ...
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Yet another example of a customer being satisfied with its energy-efficient lighting comes from New Zealand, where Pegasus Engineering in Christchurch enlisted the help of Philips to design and install lighting in an expansion of its ...
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Colourful internet identity Kim Dotcom is forging ahead with plans to launch his new Mega file storage website on the Australian or New Zealand stock markets. The German-born internet entrepreneur, who faces possible extradition to the US ...