Fonterra Ventures has partnered with German active nutrition start-up foodspring via an investment in its parent firm, Goodminton. The new partnership will enable Fonterra to tap into the rapidly growing active nutrition consumer segment, ...
Tags: Fonterra, Start-up Foodspring
Finland-based consumer and specialty packaging manufacturer Huhtamaki has completed the sale of its film unit to DBAG Fund VI, a fund advised by Deutsche Beteiligungs for around €141m. With the sale of the unit, Huhtamaki will be ...
Germany-based steelmaker ThyssenKrupp announced that it reached an agreement with Deutsche Bahn in mid-November in connection with a price-fixing cartel. ThyssenKrupp has agreed to pay damages to the German rail operator. According to ...
Tags: Cartel Case, Mineral
Dutch dairy cooperative Royal FrieslandCampina has sold its two regional dairy brands Mark Brandenburg and Milchreiter in Germany to ODW Frischprodukte for an undisclosed amount. The transaction, which takes effect from 1 September 2013, ...
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The German Federal Cartel Office believes no significant improvement has occurred in the underlying conditions for log marketing in the German states of North-Rhine Westphalia, Thuringia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Baden-Württemberg. ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Germany's Federal Cartel Office Bundeskartellamt has announced the imposition of further fines amounting to almost €100 million on eight rail companies in a case involving price fixing for train track rails, with Essen-based ...
Tags: Rail Cartel Case, Cartel Office
The investment firm Mutares sold the veneer converter HIB-Trim Parts to its competitor NBHX. The sale took effect retroactively to 1 January. The German Federal Cartel Office approved the merger on 16 May and the sale closed on 28 May. Both ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Software AG has signed a deal to acquire IT portfolio management software vendor alfabet AG, and plans to combine the company's tools with its own ARIS process modeling products. Terms of the agreement, which was announced Monday, were not ...
Tags: Software AG, Alfabet AG, IT Portfolio Management Software
Austria-based steelmaker voestalpine has announced that it has become the first company to reach an agreement with German national rail operator Deutsche Bahn, regarding the German rail steel cartel. Accordingly, voestalpine has agreed to ...
Tags: Voestalpine, Deutsche Bahn, Rail Cartel Case
Germany-based steelmaker ThyssenKrupp has announced that its Steel Europe unit offices in Duisburg were searched by the Federal Cartel Office, Germany's antitrust regulator, on Thursday, February 28, within the scope of alleged ...
Tags: auto steel, steelmaker, specific steel
Several sawmills in North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) are checking to see of log deliveries to Klausner group can be prevented with the aid of competition law. For this reason roughly ten businesses with a combined cutting capacity of almost 1m ...
Tags: sawmills, log deliveries, log
The German door manufacturer Hormann was poised to acquire all shares in the interior door producer Huga on 31 December 2012. An agreement to this effect was signed with Huga‘s owners, the Gaisendrees family, in mid-December. ...
Tags: Germany, door manufacturer, Hormann, interior door producer, Huga
The Board of Directors of Glaston Corporation has decided to start measures to strengthen the Company’s financial position. The Company is negotiating with the holders of the convertible bond issued in 2009 and debenture bond issued ...
Tags: Glaston Corporation, Financial Position, Software Solutions Business
Bloomberg reported that ThyssenKrupp AG ,Vossloh AG and Moravia Steel were sued for damages by Mr Deutsche Bahn AG for fixing the prices for rails. Deutsche Bahn filed a suit at the frankfurt regional court after talks over a settlement ...
Tags: ThyssenKrupp AG, Vossloh AG, Moravia Steel, steel market, rails price
Much of the talk for manufacturers on the release of their first-half and second-quarter results last week was focused on weakness in Europe and the knock-on effect from the impact of the US drought on corn prices. Elsewhere, Haribo said it ...
Tags: corn prices, drought, Foods plant