China Mengniu Dairy has agreed to acquire China Modern Dairy (CMD) for HK$6.4bn ($826m) to consolidate its position in the high-end dairy products sector. As part of the deal, China Mengniu will buy 965.47 million shares in CMD from a ...
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Philippines canned food company Century Pacific Food (CNPF) will acquire 100% stake in a group of unnamed Chinese distribution companies for a total price of $2.56m to further expand its branded exports business. In this regard, CNPF is ...
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French dairy giant The Lactalis Group has offered its Italian subsidiary Parmalat a buyout offer of €637m for the 12.26% stake it doesn’t hold. The move from the Lactalis is to take 100% control of Parmalat in order to delist ...
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Insiders say there's a silver lining to stagnant box office takes in 2016. Box office takes for China's film industry remained stagnant in 2016, but most industry insiders see it as a blessing in disguise. Last year's box-office total was ...
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If you couldn't justify spending the money to replace your old iPhone with an iPhone 7, you're not alone. And if you feel somewhat left out because of it, you're also not alone. Giving your old phones an iPhone 7 makeover is reportedly on ...
Remember the black MacBook that was on sale from 2006-2008? It was the first Mac I'd ever considered buying. It made the company look like a rebel at a time when Apple was anything but. (It was during the height of the "Apple white" design ...
If you were looking for a new MacBook Air, well, you didn't get one, exactly. The 13-inch Air remains. It's right there on Apple's website, same as always, after Apple's October Mac event. But there's a successor Apple wants you to buy: ...
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So, deal with it: there's no new MacBook Air. But Apple really, really wants you to consider the cheapest MacBook Pro as your alternative. There's just one problem: it costs $1,499. You do get 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM in that ...
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"We are the company that stands for the builders, the makers, the creators." Sounds like a thing Apple might say, no? But those are the words of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella -- the guy who just ate Apple's lunch. I'm not saying the new ...
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1. It cuts out the middleman. The TV app is a basically a "meta-app" -- a one-stop shop for all of the supported video apps on your Apple device. The best part of it is the top line of the main Watch Now page, called Up Next. It lists ...
Not so long ago, I sat in a meeting with executives from a very famous company. They all came in with their bright, new, shiny MacBooks, ready to connect their machines to a projector. Their dongles dangled from their hands, as they ...
Recent political thought has shown us that one of the best ways of selling is to say it loud, say it extravagantly and people will believe you. The truth, in all this, can hang. It's all about the simple words and the uplift. Apple ...
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For the past six months I've been in the market for a new laptop, and like a lot of people, I put off making a purchase until Apple unveiled its redesigned MacBook Pros, which were officially introduced in late October and shipped last ...
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Apple has a quaint belief in privacy. CEO Tim Cook has described it as "an issue of morality." This rather infuriates police forces who'd prefer to be able to trawl through everyone's cell phones in order to obtain evidence. In the ...
I want to be a sports star. Or, at least, to look like one. Failing that, can I at least feel like one? It seems the only option is to buy Beats headphones, those beautifully crafted works of technology that some say are just bits of ...
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