US-based Pinnacle Foods' workers at the Fort Madison plant are planning to initiate a strike to protest the company's plan to eliminate pensions The Pinnacle Foods facility in Fort Madison produces canned food products such as Vienna ...
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The Financial Express reported that amid continuous downtrend of the export volume Bangladesh has moved forward to increase shipment to Iran. Officials said that Bangladesh mainly exports raw jute and jute goods to the Muslim nation and ...
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Reuter reported that Bharat Heavy Electricals were up 3% after the government imposed a 35% safeguard duty on electrical insulators imported from China, in a bid to protect domestic manufacturers from cheaper shipments. BHEL, India's ...
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The Western Australia state government said that Ms Julia Gillard’s PM of Australian, tax on iron ore and coal company profits is illegal because it limits state governments’ ability to finance development. Western Australia ...
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AP reported that Minnesota collected a record USD 51 million in mineral revenues in the 2012 fiscal year. The Department of Natural Resources said that that up 44% over last year's record of USD 35.5 million. Most of the money goes ...
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Cal-Maine Foods has booked a 39% drop in second-quarter earnings, as revenue growth failed to offset higher costs. The company said earnings dipped to US$14.3m in the quarter to 1 December, down from $23.3m in the comparable period of ...
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Hewlett-Packard reduced its workforce last year by 17,800 employees, more than half way to the restructuring goal it announced last year. Most of the departures came via layoffs, though some key IT workers left unexpectedly. The company ...
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Perrigo has signed a definitive merger agreement as well as has acquired Cobrek Pharmaceuticals, an US-based drug development company, for nearly $45m on a cash free and debt free basis. The company, in May 2008, had also acquired an ...
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Computerworld-Apple today said it sold 3 million iPad tablets during the opening three-day weekend of sales of the Mini,the same number it boasted it had dealt out in March for the then-new full-sized iPad. "We set a new launch weekend ...
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Cisco Systems posted a small sales gain of 4 percent and a larger boost in profit for its fiscal fourth quarter on Wednesday. The company's revenue hit$11.7 billion for the quarter ended July 12,up 4 percent from a year earlier.Its net ...
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Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held Cloupia, a software company that develops products for automating data center operations for the deployment and configuration of physical and virtual resources. Cisco will pay ...
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Computerworld - In its 73 years, Hewlett-Packard has had bad quarters, but perhaps none like the one it posted Wednesday. Its $8.9 billion loss was huge, but there was little drama about it. HP's CEO, Meg Whitman, is already deep into a ...
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Pharmaceutical services company Parexel International has acquired all the outstanding equity securities of Liquent, a provider of Regulatory Information Management (RIM) solutions. Established in 1994,Liquent provides software solutions ...
The Engineered Products Group (EPG) of Houston-based Quanex has reported its net sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal-year 2012 as $136.4 million, compared with $129.6 million a year ago—a 5.2-percent increase. The company ...
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Socius, a highly acclaimed Microsoft Dynamics Master VAR, announced the acceptance of six additional partners into their exclusive Affiliate Network. Socius, a highly acclaimed Microsoft Dynamics Master VAR, announced the acceptance of ...
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