PepsiCo's president John Compton has left the group after less than eight months in the role. Compton, who worked for PepsiCo for the last 30 years, will become CEO of Pilot Flying J Oil Corporation, which operates truck stops in his home ...
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Lower margins from gas sales have hit half-year profits at US c-store retailer Casey's General Stores. Net income fell 6.7% to US$71.9m for the six months to the end of October despite higher sales. Casey's pointed to lower margins from ...
Aqua-Chem Inc is to supply a seawater reverse osmosis(SWRO)cccin the West Indies.The state of the art 1136 m3/day plant,which features Aqua-Chem's process design and energy recovery technology,is expected to be operational in the first ...
Oberto Brands has indicated that it will open a manufacturing facility in Nashville, Tennessee, in order to meet growing demand for its meat snack products. The company manufactures Oh Boy, Oberto! Jerky, Lowrey's Meat Snacks and Pacific ...
Tags: meat, snack, meat snack products, Meat Snacks
One StockDuq Holdings has filed a patent infringement case against Becton, Dickinson and Company in the US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee for continuing to infringe One StockDuq's Patent. The patent No. 5,704,914 ...
A privately held property/casualty agency, Keystone Insurers Group has expanded its market presence in Georgia with the addition of two new franchise partners. The partners include Boswell Insurance Group of Athens and Ash/Welborn ...
US egg firm Cal-Maine Foods has struck a deal to buy the commercial egg business of poultry firm Pilgrim's Pride. Cal-Maine said today (18 July) the acquisition would include two production complexes that can house 1.4m laying hens. In ...
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US-based pulp and paper company International Paper (IP) has reached two agreements to sell three US containerboard mills for $470m in connection with the company's acquisition of Temple-Inland for $3.5bn. According to IP, the move aims ...
Tags: Containerboard Mills, forest products, packaging industries
Global paper and packaging company International Paper (IP) and Temple-Inland in the US have reached an agreement with Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) with respect to IP’s acquisition of Temple-Inland for ...
Tags: paper and packaging, corrugated packaging, building products
Cutting Edge Concessions is recalling Shake'Ems seasoning cups in the US, as the products contain milk as well as red 40 food color, which is not declared on the label. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk can ...
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BB&T Insurance Services has added flood insurance to its comprehensive range of online products, thus becoming the first insurance broker in the US to offer and sell flood insurance online in real time. US based underwriter said that the ...
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Global adhesives provider HB Fuller has announced the closure of six manufacturing facilities across the North America Adhesives business segment by mid-2013 as part of its integration of the recently acquired industrial adhesives business ...
Global specialty chemicals company Eastman Chemical has been assigned a patent number 8,287,970 for ‘plastic baby bottles, other blow molded articles, and processes for their manufacture.’ The patent has been developed by ...
Tags: baby bottles, advanced materials, chemicals and fibers
Ken's Foods, a US-based producer of salad dressing, prepared sauces and mayonnaise, is voluntarily recalling its own branded foodservice dressings and sauces over Listeria monocytogenes contamination, according to the US Food and Drug ...
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The Northeast Group has released a study titled “United States Smart Infrastructure: LED and Smart Street Lighting," based on a survey of over 100 cities that have implemented some form of LED streetlight initiative. According to ...
Tags: North America, LED streetlight, street lighting, lighting