Eaton acquires Cooper; Haworth resigns from Lighting Science Group 05 Jun 2012 Eaton has acquired Cooper Industries for $11.8 billion while Jim Haworth has resigned as CEO of LSG. Eaton acquires Cooper Industries Eaton Corporation, a ...
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Morrisons CFO Richard Pennycook is to leave the UK retailer, the country's fourth-largest grocer said in a surprise announcement today (25 June). Pennycook has served as finance chief at Morrisons since 2005 and was tipped as one of the ...
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Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, has announced a call for entries for its 36th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff,Wales,UK has completed its acquisition(announced on 5 June)of the entire in-house molecular beam epitaxy(MBE)epiwafer manufacturing unit of RF Micro Devices Inc of ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff,Wales,UK says that it has enhanced wafer inspection capabilities at its Cardiff facility by acquiring a new automated wafer inspection tool supplied by Nanotronics Imaging LLC of ...
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In the UK, the increasing level of couponing in retail set the industry talking this week as Tesco CEO Philip Clarke noted the step-up in this type of promotion, while industry analysts gave their views on this growing trend. Elsewhere, ...
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Stanley Black & Decker Inc. has put up its hardware and home-improvement unit for sale in an auction that could fetch around $1.5 billion, people familiar with the matter said. The unit, part of Black & Decker before its 2010 merger with ...
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In their annual results for 2011, coatings producers in Europe have been predicting that 2012 will be much the same overall as last year in terms of growth in sales and profits. There would, nonetheless, be one major difference between the ...
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In what would be its maiden overseas venture, Birla Corp plans to set up a cement plant in Ethiopia. The MP Birla group company has recently formed a wholly-owned subsidiary, Birla Corp Cement Manufacturing Plc, in the sub-Saharan African ...
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Driveline supplier plans more investments, new capacity GKN Driveline has started production on a new forging line at its plant in Celaya, Mexico — the third line installed there since the plant was inaugurated in 1979. The new ...
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Cooper Lighting,an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry,has announced the expansion of the IRiS™Lighting System's architectural product line to ...
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Following opening of the competition last Autumn and closing for applications in December,the'Technology Inspired Innovation'competition for collaborative research&development funding in the UK has now resulted in 43 projects being chosen ...
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5 June 2012 IQE acquires RFMD's MBE unit and secures seven-year wafer supply agreement Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff,Wales,UK has signed what is described as a multi-faceted agreement to acquire the entire ...
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Richard Barfield has been appointed group chief financial officer of Paperlinx, based in the UK. “Richard is a highly-experienced and well-respected CFO who has recently completed the turnaround and sale of Bezier Group in the ...
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The global food industry has seen a raft of M&A activity this week with Flowers Food's purchase of Lepage Bakeries, Olam's acquisition of Usina Açucareira Passos, and Booker's deal to buy the local cash-and-carry assets of German ...