Chilled food manufacturer Greencore has reported"a breakthrough year",with revenue up 44.5%to£1,161.9M due to acquisitions and"business momentum",for the full year to September 28 2012. Greencore boss Patrick Coveney described 2012 ...
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Orange Digital, the subsidiary of Orange that manages digital services for EE, had a legacy physical infrastructure that was inadequate to offer scalability at low costs. Its IT team has adopted cloud services, not just for high ...
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Two internet privacy groups have responded to Facebook's published intentions to share its data with recently-acquired Instagram,as well as eliminate a user voting system and loosen restrictions on who can email users with unsolicited ...
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Efficiency improvements and successful price negotiations are helping meat firm Cranswick offset the impact of rising feed costs,according to City analysts commenting on its interim results for the six months to September 30. Reported ...
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American food company HJ Heinz has posted 22.1% increase in its net income for the second quarter of fiscal 2013 to $289.44m, up from $237m in the same period in 2012, due to growth in emerging markets, favorable tax rate, and strong ...
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Facebook plans to combine data of its users with those of Instagram,the photo-sharing service it acquired for$715m(£450m)last month,according to its just-released,updated privacy policy. The social media company wants to share data ...
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Hardware giant Hewlett-Packard has called in the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) after uncovering what it claims are accounting irregularities at intelligent-search software vendor Autonomy, which it acquired for $11.1bn (£7bn) in August ...
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Global foodservice firm Compass Group has posted revenue 8%up at £16.9bn for the full year to September 30,reflecting strong growth in North America and emerging markets. Underlying operating profit was 9%up at £1,178M ...
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Nationwide Insurance talked up its enterprise collaboration systems at last week's SharePoint Conference,offering a glimpse into a best-of-breed strategy that is becoming everbmore popular. Nationwide,which uses IBM's Lotus Notes for ...
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SAP's UK and Ireland managing director, Tim Noble, failed to dispel increasing unrest among the firm's UK user base at the SAP User Conference 2012 in Manchester this afternoon, as group leaders came away dissatisfied on licensing issues ...
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Heinz reaffirms previously announced Fiscal 2013 full-year sales and profit outlook. Reconciliations of non-GAAP amounts are set forth in the attached financial tables.Results excluding productivity charges in Fiscal 2012 represent the ...
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HP has reported almost across-the-board declines in revenue in its fourth-quarter and full-year results,which were capped by claims of accounting irregularities at Autonomy,the intelligent-search software vendor it acquired ...
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SAP customers in the UK and Ireland remain confused about the supplier's latest initiatives,including cloud migration and recent acquisitions. Research by the UK&Ireland SAP User Group,released at its annual conference held in ...
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Paperlinx has announced more cost cuts and job losses as shareholders rejected the struggling paper and packaging merchant's remuneration report. Shareholders voted against the report at last week's annual general meeting, including ...
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WINCHESTER, Va. --- Upper end case goods manufacturer Henkel Harris has hired Charlotte, N.C.-based Stump & Co. to help it determine its strategic options, including a possible sale of the furniture operations, the company said Thursday. ...
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