For its fiscal second-quarter 2015, fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported revenue of $297m, up 2.2% on $290.7m a year ago but down 9.4% on $327.6m last quarter (its first ...
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Unilever is planning to spin off its North American and European spreads business into a standalone company, as its sales have declined in recent years. The business, which includes Flora and Bertolli margarine, will be named Unilever ...
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Activities spanned delivering toys and games to children and providing meals for the homeless to renovating playrooms and hosting special Hasbro Game Day events. Last Thursday, Hasbro employees around the world became holiday ...
The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published the cumulative results from the first two quarters of its year-long survey of campylobacter on fresh chickens, which showed that 70 per cent of chicken sold in UK supermarkets were ...
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7,000 knock-off Super Mario toys and 2,000 fake Disney Frozen Loom Band sets were intercepted. A haul of fake and dangerous toys worth £500,000 has been stopped from entering the Christmas market, thanks to trading Standards ...
Tags: Fake Frozen, Peppa Pig, Toys
The greenhouse gas that is twenty times more harmful than carbon dioxide, methane, may become the feedstock for a material that helps reduce our dependency on plastic in its current form. Methane, as you know, is generated by the natural ...
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In partnership with digital communications company Telefónica UK, Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic ...
Omnitracs, a leading provider of fleet management solutions to transportation and logistics companies, today announced the appointment of veteran software technology executive Kevin Haugh as vice president and general manager of its Roadnet ...
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Gildan Activewear Inc., which is the largest supplier of branded athletic socks in the United States, reported record fourth quarter adjusted earnings per share of $1.00, up 20.5 percent compared to last year, but projected a loss for the ...
US-based agribusiness company Alico has acquired three citrus producers in Florida, for an accumulated value of around $363m. Of the total investment, around $274m was paid to acquire Orange-Co and $72m for Silver Nip Citrus, while Gator ...
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Profitability for LED products is shrinking due to continual price drops along with increasing competition, and more than 100 relatively small China-based LED packaging service providers will be forced out of the market in 2014 and the ...
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Somewhere, somehow, someone's going to pay. If you like your action figures armed to the teeth, covered in war paint and boasting a thick Austrian accent, you're in luck. Classic Eighties action film Commando has been given the Hot Toys ...
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NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Conditions Index (EBCI) for current conditions in North America improved for the second month in a row in November, rising to 60.4 from 58.3 last month and from 57.1 in September. The survey’s ...
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Global beverage giant The Coca-Cola Company has made a deal with South African multinational brewing and beverage company SABMiller to acquire its Appletiser drinks brands on a worldwide basis, and acquire or be licensed rights to a further ...
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Category 9 or Category 10 LTE modems, which enable mobile broadband speeds in the downlink of up to 450Mbps, are expected to reach 64 million in 2019, according to ABI Research. Recently, Qualcomm unveiled its Gobi 9x45, the first mobile ...
Tags: LTE modems, Smartphones