Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), and SPARX Group (SPARX Group) have signed a memorandum of understanding to consider the establishment of a new investment fund aiming to encourage innovation and ...
Tags: automobile manufacture, vehicle technology, intelligent technology
Virginia Poultry Growers Cooperative will build a $62m turkey processing facility in Hinton, a move that creates new jobs. The expansion will increase the company's poultry production by over 45% to cater to the increasing consumer demand ...
Tags: animal husbandry, turkey processing, poultry production
TowerSec has the system to address automotive cyber security threats and is running projects with automakers and suppliers that integrate its ECUSHIELD software technology into vehicles. A just-released Wired article by Andy Greenberg ...
Tags: automobile manufacture, TowerSec, auto parts, auto system, vehcile safety
The New Zealand Government has launched a new initiative to supply recycling bins at retail outlets to enable consumers to dump the used soft plastic bags for recycling. Initially put on a pilot mode at New World, PAK'nSAVE and The ...
Thai Union Frozen Products (TUF) is planning to raise close to $380m, which will fund its planned acquisition of Bumble Bee Seafoods. TUF will offer up to 795.3 million new shares to its existing shareholders at $0.4685 each, Reuters ...
Tags: food, Bumble Bee Seafoods
Automobile major Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is on the verge of taking a final call on whether to divest its auto parts wing Magneti Marelli in the face of potential buyers expressing interest. Two private equity funds based out of ...
Tags: automobile manufacture, auto parts, FCA
The US Paper and Packaging Board (P+PB) has undertaken The Paper & Packaging – How Life Unfolds campaign to address the decline of paper usage and drum up support for packaging. With an investment of $20m, the campaign will fund ...
Tags: Paper, paper Packaging, paper box
The commerce and industry ministry has launched the facility for online payment of application fees through credit or debit cards and other electronic fund transfers, according to a government statement. The facility of online payment was ...
Tags: textile manufacture, DGFT
North Face announced the final winners of the 2015 Explore Fund $500,000 grants program funding 47 organizations throughout the U.S. The North Face Explore Fund chose projects that use outdoor exploration as the catalyst for positive, ...
Litchfield Fund has invested in Atlanta-based Harvest Soul, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fresh Promise Foods. Litchfield is a family-owned joint venture making equity and venture capital investments in the natural and organic food and ...
Tags: Litchfield Fund, fruits and vegetable, animal products, vegetable
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Pakistani textile ministry held a meeting on July 2 in Islamabad to work out parameters for the project of “Skill Development and Market Diversification” (PSDMD) for the ...
Tags: Japan International Cooperation Agency, Textile Sector
Financial services company India Nivesh has warned that when the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) comes into effect, India would be negatively impacted to a major extent; though India would not be the only country at disadvantage. China, ...
The overseas investment returns of the nation's sovereign wealth fund sank last year amid a fragile world economy and soft commodity prices, according to figures released on Friday. China Investment Corp said that net annual returns on ...
Though the Chinese government promulgated the "Great Wall of Protection Ordinance" in 2006, the world famous ancient stone fortification is still disappearing at a tremendous speed, especially the parts in forsaken mountain areas. ...
Tags: Great Wall, stone fortification
Exagan of Grenoble, France, a gallium nitride (GaN) technology start-up that enables smaller and more efficient electrical converters, has raised €5.7m in first-round financing that will be used to produce high-speed power switching ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, GaN switching device