Posted in Medical Device Business by Chris Newmarker on November 24, 2014 Stryker executives are once again examining a possible buy of London-based Smith & Nephew and its $4.4 billion-a-year medical device business, according to a ...
Tags: Medical Device Business, Health
ŠKODA wants to continue to grow in China. The highlight of ŠKODA's presence at the Auto Guangzhou (20-29 November) is the Chinese premiere of the 'KODA VisionC' show car. With its expressive, modern and young design language, the ...
Tags: ŠKoda Visionc, emotional power, Auto
About 85% of global tea production is sold by multinationals. And three multinationals control one fifth of the global tea market – Unilever which owns Brooke Bond (UK) and Lipton (worldwide) with 12%, Tata Global Beverages which owns ...
Tags: tea production, tea market, Packaging
The growing problem of product counterfeiting has raised its head a number of times this year. Now global market research and consulting company, MarketsandMarkets, has released a report on what counterfeiting means to the packaging ...
Tags: Packaging Market, Packaging
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting applications from eligible non-profit groups and tribal communities for the 2015 Environmental Justice Small Grants (EJSG) Program. The EJSG Program provides funding for projects ...
Tags: Environmental Justice Small Grants Program, Construction
Benjamin Moore & Co. has announced the appointment of Ron Schuller as Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President. Schuller brings more than 25 years of retail and consumer brand experience to Benjamin Moore, most recently as Vice ...
Smith & Nephew plc has figuratively yanked the job-security bandage off 108 employees at its St. Petersburg, FL, wound-care plant. The company plans to close the factory and lay the workers off by January 9, according to a report in the ...
Tags: Job Cuts, Smith&Nephew, Health
Nampak will sell its paper business to Ethos Private Equity on behalf of the Ethos Fund IV for around $14m (R1.575bn). The sale will include Nampak's corrugated, sacks and tissue divisions, but will exclude its shareholding in Sancella ...
Tags: Paper Business, Private Equity, Agriculture
Perry Ellis International reported sales declined 5.3 percent in the third quarter to $203.3 million, but managed to cut its loss in the period to $437,000, or 3 cents a share, from $3.0 million, or 20 cents, a year ago. Executives said ...
Solar PV manufacturers are switching over to higher efficiency monocrystalline cells to increase power output, but for solar energy systems, overall module output is key. “In order to balance costs and the power efficiency of solar ...
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UK-based eco packaging specialist Biopac has developed a range of environment-friendly disposables for the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) in support of its new, 'Cafe Rating'. The SRA has launched a new cafe rating to improve ...
Tags: eco packaging, Cafe Rating, Agriculture
Textile products of one of Europe's leading manufacturers of mattresses and bed accessories - The French Cofel Group, which retails its products under the brand ‘Bultex’, meet the human-ecological requirements of the OEKO-TEX ...
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The garment industry in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam, is in need of additional skilled workers in order to achieve the target to become a garment supply hub for the southern region and the nation’s fashion centre by 2020, ...
Tags: garment industry, Skilled Workers, Apparel
At the 11th China International Forum on Solid State Lighting (SSL CHINA 2014) in Guangzhou (6-8 November), deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has launched its next-generation metal-organic chemical vapor deposition ...
BASF has launched the first designfabrik outside Europe in Tokyo, Japan. The second designfabrik worldwide will strengthen BASF’s capabilities as a provider for comprehensive solutions supporting customers from various industries not ...
Tags: BASF, high-performance plastics