Crocs, Inc. announced that Blackstone Group LP is making a $200 million investment that will give the private equity firm a 13 percent stake in the shoe company. Crocs also said late on Sunday that John McCarvel, its CEO, plans to retire in ...
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Closing Grain and Livestock Futures Mar. corn closed at $4.20 and 1/2, down 1 and 1/2 cents Jan. soybeans closed at $12.87, down 25 and 1/2 cents Jan. soybean meal closed at $423.80, down $13.90 Jan. soybean oil closed at 38.51, ...
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Related sony Panasonic, Sony End OLED Panel Venture sony Sony To Sell Off Gracenote sony Molyneux, Fasulo, Okuda Get Sony Promotions sony TWICE Newsmaker Of The Year Tokyo – Sony Corp. has reversed a decision to sell off its ...
Ikaria, Inc., a critical care company focused on developing and commercializing innovative therapies designed to address the significant needs of critically ill patients, announced today that its investor group and employee shareholders ...
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Two tech companies have launched rival ventures to build Android tablets in Haiti, a country with little recent experience in electronics manufacturing. Startups Surtab SA and Handxom SA began production last month and plan to sell the ...
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GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) closed its public offering of newly issued shares of common stock (announced on 18 ...
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Emerald Expositions, organizers of the Outdoor Retailer trade show, has agreed to acquire George Little Management, which operates the Surf Expo and other trade shows. The price paid was $335 million, subject to certain adjustments at ...
The northeaster Argentine province of Formosa would be getting some five million pesos in order to buy machinery for cotton production during the 2013-14 cotton harvest campaign in the province, said undersecretary of the Ministry of ...
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North American labor rights groups welcomed a landmark agreement, announced, to deliver an estimated $40 million in compensation to the families of those killed in the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh and called on Walmart, ...
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John Lewis has announced plans to open a 45,000 sq ft at home store in Horsham as early as autumn 2015. The shop, adjoining Waitrose in the new West End development owned by Westrock and the British Airways Pension Fund, will be the third ...
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YRC Worldwide Inc. has reached an agreement with some of its creditors to reduce its debt by about $300 million, a move the carrier said is a key to obtaining new concessions from the Teamsters union. As a result of the agreement, YRC's ...
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Not content with boring black boxes that light up, tech-savvy airfy announces a new way to access WiFi easily, securely and stylishly with the airfy router, the world's first smart WiFi hotspot. The trendsetting company has just launched an ...
With porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) costing U.S. swine producers more than $664 million annually in lost production, collaborative scientific research continues to be the industry's best hope for finding new ways to ...
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Vale S. A. (Vale) informs that it had signed an agreement with an investment fund managed by Brookfield Asset Management (Brookfield) for the sale of 26.5% of Vale's stake in VLI S.A (VLI), an integrated general cargo logistics company ...
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More young adults have health insurance now than three years ago. And many of them are getting that coverage under a provision of the Affordable Care Act that allows them to stay on their parents' health policies until they turn 26, U.S. ...
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