To celebrate the final weekend of the UK's Wool Week, a flock of Australian/English Bowmont Merino sheep made a special appearance in the Royal Academy's courtyard over the weekend. Wool Week is the Campaign for Wool's annual UK festival to ...
First Milk, a UK-based dairy producer, has unveiled plans to close its cheese packing plant in Marchwiel, Wrexham, while putting 231 jobs at risk. The plant is scheduled to shut in May 2014, and this move comes as the company lost a ...
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First Milk’s plan to close its Maelor cheese packing site near Wrexham, with the loss of up to 231 jobs, will damage the local economy, Unite the union has warned. First Milk decided to close the cheese packing site after losing a ...
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Scottish ministers have issued a tender for the provision of IT staff for public sector organisations in Scotland. The tender, found on the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), states that the framework agreement is available ...
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There is a saying in retail that the package sells the product. While this might not be true across the board, for OEM machine builder R.A. Jones, located in Covington, KY, the package does indeed sell the product-the company builds ...
Established in 1986, The Boxshop is an owner-managed business expertise in box design and manufacture as well as packaging management and customer service, plus a range of material management and storage services. The company’s ...
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The Scottish Government is set to equip civil servants with Windows 8 tablets in an effort to improve their ability to work on the move. An initial pilot for key staff offered a choice of tablets from a selection comprising the Samsung ...
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The initiative is run by Perth and Kinross Council and Zero Waste Scotland and is designed to support communities in Perthshire to achieve zero waste to landfill. The first Zero Waste Fortnight, hosted by Aberfeldy in Highland Perthshire, ...
The announcement of the sale which takes effect from today [1 October] was made jointly in Cincinnati, Ohio where Multi-Color Corporation has its world headquarters and in Glasgow. The current chairman John Watson has been with the ...
The UK Timber Frame Association of Alloa, Scotland, cStructural Timber Association (STA) since late September. The appropriate plans had already been announced in May. STA says the new name reflects the increasing diversification in its ...
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Recycling initiatives showcased at the fifth CRUK Conference in Birmingham highlighted the progress being made in developing value for waste carpet and embracing circular economy opportunities. "Active projects revealed how attitudes have ...
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Wrap has conducted research which identifies how much food, drink and packaging waste arises in the grocery retail supply chain. It also looks at where in the sector it arises, what the waste is, and how it is managed. It is estimated ...
Scotland-based eClinicalHealth has launched a new patient-centric cloud-based platform called 'Clinpal' designed to improve patient engagement at every stage of the clinical trial. Typically, recruitment difficulties delay 86% of studies ...
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is to spend more than £300m on a new IT system as it prepares to sell off 314 branches under the Williams & Glyn's moniker. RBS is reviving the Williams & Glyn's name after 30 years, with the ...
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Scottish insurance and financial services firm Borland Group has acquired the former Carlyle Insurance Group’s Kirkcaldy office, in a bid to strengthen its operations in the country. The acquirer did not reveal the transaction ...
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