Leading independent bed retailer Land of Beds has won the Family Business Award of Excellence at Cheshire’s 10th annual High Sheriff’s Awards for Enterprise 2015-16. The awards recognise leaders of outstanding businesses in ...
John Lewis has continued to outperform the market in uncertain trading conditions, with gross sales up 2.8% to £4.56bn (4.4% on a 52 week basis). To ensure that customers can shop whenever and however they want, John Lewis has ...
Tags: John Lewis, Trade condition, Annual summary
Home Retail Group has issued a trading statement for the eight weeks to 27th February 2016, a turbulent time for the company given the imminent sale of Argos and Homebase (the latter now completed). Chief executive John Walden ...
Tags: Home Retail Group, Argos
UK retail footfall in February was 1.1% down on a year ago – lower than the 1.2% rise seen in January and the three-month average rate of -0.8% – according to the latest BRC/Springboard Footfall and Vacancies Monitor. ...
Tags: BRC, Retail football, Goverment support
Cargill is cutting back on the amount of antibiotics used on its U.S. cattle supply by 20%. This decision will influence 1.2 million cattle annually, none of which use any type of antibiotics for growth promotion that are important for ...
Tags: Cargill, Antibiotic, Cattle supply, Beef
In booth 1655 at the Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC 2016) in Long Beach, CA, USA (20–24 March), Monolith Semiconductor Inc of Round Rock, TX, USA is demonstrating its fast-switching silicon carbide (SiC) ...
Tags: SiC MOSFET, SiC Schottky barrier diodes, SiC power devices
The new 2,800 sqft store in West Sussex is the latest move in the growing independent retailer's plans to open a swathe of stores across the country this year. UK multi-channel retailer, The Entertainer is preparing to open a new store ...
Gimv has announced that its Belgain company Punch Powertrain has been 100% acquired by Chiense Yinyi group. The valuation agreed upon in the context of this transaction indicates that the contemplated sale could have a positive impact of ...
Tags: Gimv, Yinyi group, Punch Powertrain, Aquisition
Finnish food company Atria is entering Swedish poultry business by acquiring Lagerberg i Norjeby (Lagerbergs). The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Through this deal, the company is purchasing the entire share ...
Tags: Atria, Swedish Poultry, Aquisition
Ford has established Ford Smart Mobility, a subsidiary which will specifically design, build, grow and invest in emerging or future mobility technology. Jim Hackett, the former chairman and CEO of Steelcase has been appointed as the ...
Tags: Ford, Mobility technology, Jim Hackett
An Jin, the Board Director of JAC Motors, and Se Cairong, the deputy General Manager attended the 45 JAC Motors high-end light-duty trucks delivery ceremony of Zucheyi Co., Ltd. in Hong Kong, the beautiful oriental pearl on February, 29, ...
Tags: Light-Duty Trucks, Trucks
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that Seoul-based LG Innotek (a subsidiary of South Korean electronics company LG Group) has selected an AIX G5 WW (Warm-Wall) reactor for the development of ...
Tags: SiC Epiwafers, Aix G5 WW System
United Natural Foods has reported financial results for the second fiscal quarter and six months ended January 30, 2016. The Company also announced today that it has acquired certain assets of Global Organic/Specialty Source, Inc. and ...
Onyx Graphics, as a Crossroads Partner, has developed a Switch Configurator that supports the specific demands of large format printers. Based on Switch automation software from Enfocus, this new solution - called the ONYX Switch ...
Smyth Companies, has acquired Pure Pack Technologies , which specializes in the conversion of flexible packaging materials. "Smyth's acquisition of Pure Pack Technologies immediately enhances our flexible packaging product offerings ...
Tags: Pure Pack Technologies, Smyth