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Hand Tool Trends: Cautious But Hopeful of 2019 Outlook?
Apr 1, 2019Taiwan's hand tools industry has always enjoyed a positive global reputation, thanks to industry members' strive to improve and refine their products in face of an increasingly, competitive industry. In 2018, the island's hand tool ...
Tags: Hand Tool, 2019 Outlook
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International Paper to Pay $354m to Settle Kleen Products Class Action Lawsuit
Jun 29, 2017International Paper has agreed to settle the Kleen Products antitrust class action lawsuit, which was filed in 2010 against it and seven other containerboard producers. The lawsuit is pending in the US District Court for the Northern ...
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General Motors Hit with Diesel Emissions Cheating Lawsuit
May 31, 2017General Motors (GM) has been accused of using a device in its diesel-powered vehicles in order to cheat on emissions tests, similar to Volkswagen scandal. A group of more than 700,000 owners and lessees of GM’s Chevrolet Silverado ...
Tags: General Motors, Diesel Emissions
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Ube's Road Trip to Hell? New Report Alleges Cheapo Taxi Firm Has Been Very, Very Naughty
Apr 14, 2017A new report claims that Uber operated a top-secret software programme known as 'Hell' that spied on and undermined its main rival, Lyft. That's according to an published by The Information, which alleges that the ride-hailing giant ...
Tags: Uber
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US SEC, States Investigate Fiat Chrysler on Diesel Emissions
Mar 14, 2017The US Securities Exchange Commission and several states’ attorneys general have started investigating Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) over possible breaches of diesel vehicle emissions standards. The information was disclosed in ...
Tags: Fiat Chrysler, Diesel Emissions
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US: TIA Urges Parents Not to Fall for Unreliable Toy Safety Reports
Nov 18, 2016The body looked at the US Public Interest Research Group's 2015 "Trouble in Toyland" report and W.A.T.C.H's 2015 "10 Worst Toys" list and found the data to be unreliable. The Toy Industry Association is urging US families not to fall for ...
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Errington Cheese Drops Petition Against Scottish Watchdog's Sales Ban
Nov 14, 2016Errington Cheese has dropped its petition against a ban of all its products by Food Standards Scotland (FSS) following a fatal E.coli outbreak. The company’s cheese products were withdrawn in mid September following investigations ...
Tags: Errington, cheese products
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Chancellor Says The UK Will Strike Back Against Cyber Attacks
Nov 2, 2016The UK Chancellor has warned of an increased risk of cyber attacks while laying out plans for a previously announced £1.9bn cybersecurity strategy. Philip Hammond said the country must be able to retaliate against cyber-attacks, ...
Tags: Chancellor, Cyber Attacks
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US Farmer Lawsuits Against Syngenta Granted Class Action Status
Oct 8, 2016Syngenta faces a major legal trouble as a US federal judge in Kansas ruled that the claims of hundreds of thousands of corn farmers can go ahead as a class action. The allegations against the Swiss based global agrochemical company are ...
Tags: Syngenta, legal trouble, corn farmers
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Goodman Co. Agrees to Pay $5.55 Million for Delay and Misrepresentation in Reporting Fire Hazard Involving Air Conditioners/Heaters
Sep 21, 2016WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that Goodman Company, L.P., of Houston, Texas, has agreed to pay a $5.55 million civil penalty and has agreed to other terms of a consent decree (which is ...
Tags: CPSC, Goodman, civil penalty
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Amira Nature Foods Receives Court's Grant for Its Motion to Dismiss Class Action Lawsuit
Aug 24, 2016Amira Nature Foods, a global provider of branded packaged specialty rice, has announced that the court granted the Company’s motion to dismiss class action lawsuit. In February 2015, two proposed shareholder class action lawsuits ...
Tags: Amira Nature Foods, Class Action
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Nissan Denies South Korean Allegations of Emissions Cheating on Qashqai Models
May 19, 2016Nissan has denied the allegations made by South Korean Ministry of Environment (MOE) that its UK-built Qashqai SUV diesel models were fitted with emissions defeat devices. The South Korean Ministry of Environment found that Nissan Qashqai ...
Tags: diesel models, SUV
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7-Eleven Australia's New CEO Announced
Mar 22, 2016The convenience store and petrol chain group 7-Eleven Australia appointed a replacement for its former Chief Executive Officer Warren Wilmot who left the chain in 2015. He left at a time of the chian facing widespread allegations of ...
Tags: 7-Eleven Australia, CEO, Warren Wilmot
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Omron Pleads Guilty In Automotive Component Bid Rigging Case, To Pay $4.6m Fine
Mar 22, 2016Japanese Omron Automotive Electronics (OAE) has agreed to plead guilty and pay $4.6m fine for its involvement in rigging bids for power window switches in Honda Civics, the US department of justice (DoJ) said. The justice department said ...
Tags: OAE, Bid rigging case
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The Launch of China's First Crude Futures Contract
Mar 21, 2016The plan to launch China's first crude oil futures contract is facing more roadblocks as the Shanghai International Energy Exchange, or INE, comes under government review, a senior official close to the matter said Monday. "The target ...
Tags: Crude Futures, Crude Oil