Craft Brew Alliance (CBA) and Pabst Brewing Company (PBC) have signed a brewing agreement whereby the two companies aim to achieve growth objectives jointly. The agreement entails that PBC subsidiary Rainier Brewing Company will brew ...
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For fiscal second-quarter 2016 (to 26 December), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $94.1m (slightly above the $88-94m guidance). This is up ...
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A 40-hectare food manufacturing hub that will bring packaging, distribution and transport to a single location will be opened in South Australia. The South Australian Government will spend $7 million to attract anchor tenants to the ...
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Victorian-based dairy processing giant Murray Goulburn dairy co-operative will be replacing Bega Cheese as Coles’ private label cheese supplier from January 2017. Bega Cheese has been providing cheese sold under Coles private label ...
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Swiss dairy processing company Emmi is to purchase 60% stake in Dutch goat cheese maker Bettinehoeve in order to bolster its growth prospects in the fresh goat‘s milk and cheese segments. Following the completion of transaction, ...
Tags: goat milk products, cheeses
Corrugated packaging containers specialist Liberty Carton Company has expanded its business with the acquisition of Western Container Company. Based in Minneapolis, in the US state of Minnesota, Western Container manufactures a wide range ...
Avery Dennison Corporation announced preliminary, unaudited results for its fourth quarter and year ended January 2, 2016. All non-GAAP financial measures referenced in this document are reconciled to GAAP in the attached tables. Unless ...
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UK-based drinks company Diageo has reportedly said that it would challenge the claim by its Indian subsidiary United Spirits Ltd (USL) chairman Vijay Mallya, who alleged that Diageo failed to enter into a joint venture with him in the ...
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Design and packaging firm Graphic Packaging International has agreed to acquire 100% of Australian folding carton supplier Colorpak. Under the agreed terms, Graphic Packaging would pay $0.68 per share inclusive of a fully franked dividend ...
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Ford Motor Company is changing its method for reporting pension and other postretirement employee benefits (OPEB) to provide a clearer view of Ford's operating performance and segment results. "Ford has delivered consistently strong ...
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Icahn Enterprises has announced its plans to acquire automotive service provider Pep Boys-Manny Moe & Jack for $1bn. The deal was announced after Japanese tire maker Bridgestone quit the race to acquire the company by announcing that ...
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China's apparent oil demand in 2015 grew 5.8% year on year to 11.11 million b/d, the fastest pace since 2011, despite the country's economy growing at the slowest rate since 1990, Platts calculations based on recently released official data ...
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On the 30th December 2015, GRENERGY formalized the sale of its two last solar photovoltaic plants in Spain, both producing under decree 9/2013 of July 12 which establishes the new remuneration system for renewable energy replacing decrees ...
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A slew of factors is persuading companies to expand abroad to access the global market Rising costs and steep anti-dumping duties in the United States and Europe, coupled with a desire to expand overseas, are increasingly driving major ...
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The world's stock markets are spiralling downwards. The U.S. equity market fell 10 percent last month. Investor terminology calls this a "correction" not a crash. But prospects don't look good. Big investors, banks and financial ...
Tags: Economic Crisis, investment banks