Dutch brewing company Heineken is set to open a new brewery in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in a move to expand its presence in Africa. The proposed brewery will be opened in July this year, with a capacity to brew 1.5 million hectoliters of ...
Tags: Heineken, raw materials
UK-based aerospace, defense and security technology provider QinetiQ Group plc has acquired Redfern Integrated Optics Inc (RIO) of Santa Clara, CA, USA. Founded in 2000 in Australia before moving to San Francisco, CA, USA in 2003, RIO is ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
For its fiscal fourth-quarter (ended 27 April), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported its seventh consecutive quarter of sequential revenue growth, to a record $306m (up ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. VSH +0.26% , one of the world's largest manufacturers of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components, today announced the acquisition of Holy Stone Polytech Co., Ltd. ("Holy Stone Polytech"), a ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Canadian dairy giant Saputo is seeking acquisitions across the US, Canada, Latin America and Australia, in a move to expand its footprint. The potential acquisitions in the US are expected to cost around C$4bn ($3.65bn), while Canadian ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, dairy, Cheese, Butter
Canadian dairy producer Saputo is considering possible acquisitions in Australia, the US, Canada and Latin America. Saputo chief executive officer Lino Saputo Jr was quoted by Reuters as saying that the company's potential acquisitions in ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, dairy
The Withers family behind 7-Eleven in Australia have acquired the Australian operating licence of Starbucks and control of the local operations of the global coffee giant. However, the Withers Group have intimated that the existing 24 ...
Tags: Starbucks, 7-Eleven Connections
The need for high-power, high-frequency transistors is increasing steadily, commensurate with the huge demand for wireless telecommunications, notes market research firm Yole Développement in its report ‘RF GaN Technology & ...
Driven by the fanfare over (and overestimation of) the LCD display market, the LED front-end equipment market experienced an unprecedented investment cycle in 2010-2011. The market surge was driven mostly by MOCVD reactor shipments to new ...
Tags: General Lighting, LED TV
A new research report has revealed that adhesives for paperboard and packaging industry globally is said to reach an estimated value of about $16.9bn in 2018. According to the report released by global management consulting and market ...
Tags: Adhesives, Packaging Industry
The smart lighting industry involves the use of lighting control systems that deliver correct amount of light when needed. It deals with the technology where lights can automatically perform various operations at set times or under set ...
Tags: Smart Lighting, LED
Lenovo's net profit grew 25 percent year-over-year in the first quarter as the Chinese company continued to make gains in the PC and smartphone markets.? During the period ended 31st March, Lenovo's net profit reached US$158 million, up ...
Tags: Lenovo, IT, Computer Products, Smartphones, PC
Marketsandmarkets report "Caprolactam Market by Material Type (Engineering Plastics & Fibers), by Application (Textile, Industrial, Carpet, Automotive, Film & Coating, Machinery, E&E, Consumer Goods, Appliances, Wire & Cable, & Others) - ...
Tags: Caprolactam, Market Value
Flowers Foods, the nation's second-largest producer and marketer of fresh packaged bakery foods, reported results for its 16-week first quarter ended April 19, 2014. First quarter sales increased 2.6% compared to the first quarter last ...
US-based First Solar delivered on expectations in 2013 to become the leading engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company in the global photovoltaic (PV) industry, even though it is likely to be surpassed in 2014 by China-based ...