Premier Foods was the subject of media reports surrounding the sale of 100M of its debt and its Hovis brand – as well as seeing a number of its directors quit the company – over the last 12 months. On top of this, the firm had ...
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Crude oil production from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) remained broadly unchanged at 29.93 million barrels per day (b/d) in October following production of 29.91 million b/d in September, a just-released ...
Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE: BHI) today announced that a protest incident by local residents occurred last Saturday at a subsidiary's facility near Basrah, Iraq. No injuries were suffered and the facility was secured. The incident is ...
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The price of cement is now stabilising in Cross River State as the product now sells for between N1,500 and N1,550 per bag, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Following a protest by cement dealers, the price of the product ...
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Women in Saudi Arabia are planning to take to the roads on October 26 in protest of the country’s ban on female drivers. An online petition has attracted more than 15,700 signatures since being launched less than four weeks ago, ...
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Cooper Tire and Rubber Co. says it is assessing its options after an arbitrator blocked the sale of two of its plants to Apollo Tyres Ltd. The arbitrator upheld two grievances filed by the United Steel Workers (USW) in a ruling issued on ...
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A disgruntled BMW M6 owner has destroyed his $270K-plus luxury sports car in a highly public display of dissatisfaction at the entrance to the Frankfurt motor show. Pourmohseni Hadi claims his first-generation 2007 BMW M6 has been plagued ...
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AG education gets $2 million boost at Chico State Pesticide research gets $1 million boost in California Ethanol pits growers against each other Ingrid Newkirk wants people to light up and smoke in California restaurants. But not for what ...
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Apparel traders from Peru’s Gamarra emporium have announced a business strike and will shut down trading on September 5, 2013, as a protest against the facilities provided by the Government on imports of Chinese clothing. ...
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General Motors has shut down its headquarters and vehicle production plant in Egypt indefinitely as violence in the troubled nation increases. More than 500 people were killed in Cairo on Wednesday when fighting erupted at protest ...
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Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.'s passenger and truck tire plant in Rongcheng, China, remains unmanned following a work stoppage that begin in July. The stoppage coincided with the announcement that Apollo Tyres Ltd. had purchased the Findlay, ...
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UK retailers have voiced strong concerns over plans announced by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) to apply a new “discretionary” approach on whether to conduct a site visit when inspecting certain types of businesses ...
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China's state-owned offshore monopoly producer China National Offshore Oil Corp says it supports the Chinese government's position over Japan's recent protests about Chinese drilling activity in the East China Sea. "We do not understand ...
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Officials say Jordan's cabinet decided to place a protective tariff on imported iron. The tariff charge standards in the first year was 80 dinars per ton. It's 70 dinars per ton in the second year and 60 dinars per ton in the third year. ...
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The CIA has selected Amazon over IBM to build a cloud computing service for the spy agency even though IBM's proposal carried a lower price tag, according to a US government report. However the decision is under review after IBM lodged a ...
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