Swedish food-to-ethanol group Lantmannen has said that "weaker demand" in "several food categories" dented its half-year results. Announcing that the company's first-half figures were down year-on-year, Lantmannen said its food business ...
Tags: food, weaker demand, cost control, corn, ethanol
UK-Sandwell College's new£77m Central Campus building in West Bromwich,which took four years in the planning,will provide an exciting new-age space for its performing arts students across the West Midlands. With a new theatre ...
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The market for IT contractors is starting to recover,according to Computer People's IT Monitor survey for June 2012. Despite a 12%year-on-year slowdown in the second quarter,Computer People concluded that this simply reflected the fact ...
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First Light Technologies Ltd. has completed a trial installation of 182 of its new PLB Series Solar LED Bollards at a US Military Facility in the southern United States. The 182 lights will illuminate 1.25 miles of jogging trails and ...
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Computerworld-The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act(ACA),which the Supreme Court found constitutional last month,requires all states to roll out health insurance exchanges where consumers can compare in one place plans based on ...
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First Light Technologies Installs Solar LED Lights at a US Military Facility in the southern United States U.S. Military selected PLB Series Solar LED Bollard for quality, performance and ease of installation VICTORIA, B.C. First ...
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New email-based attacks, some of which target the aerospace industry, are distributing new variants of the Sykipot information stealing malware, according to researchers from security firm AlienVault. "We have detected a new wave of ...
Some users of new Wi-Fi routers from Cisco's Linksys division complained this week that the company automatically updated the routers' firmware and pushed them toward a cloud-based administration service they didn't want. Users posting on ...
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A mystery shop investigation into roofing battens has indicated “massive failings” in the quality of products supplied to UK construction sites, as well as fraudulent BS marking. The report, by The Wood Shop consultancy for UK ...
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Despite the economic turmoil and return to recession,IT contractor rates in London have increased 3.4%over the past year. This reflects how organisations–which see IT as a way of improving business–are running projects that ...
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LED lighting technology continues to grow in popularity due to its fast start up,low energy consumption,long-life and reliability.This is particularly true in markets that include Home Automation lighting,commercial road and street ...
Kumba's Kolomela Mine near Postmasburg in the Northern Cape was officially opened today by the Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu.Also in attendance were officials from the Northern Cape Province,Anglo American CEO Cynthia ...
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Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) has offered cheap commercial auto insurance to the denizens of California, by purchasing coverage directly from GEICO. Under the commercial insurance packages, the cars, trucks and vans used ...
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AOL launched a company-wide initiative to adapt to changes in online culture-which the company had been instrumental in creating in the first place. As part of this effort, AOL moved its West Coast headquarters to a new corporate space in ...
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European Extremely Large Telescope'approved'12 Jun 2012 European Southern Observatory(ESO)council votes for provisional go-ahead of project to build the world's largest telescope. A project to build what will be by far the world's ...