Sol Voltaics AB of Lund, Sweden, which provides nanomaterial technology for enhancing solar panels and other products, has raised $17m in a Series C round of equity investment and grant funding, led by new investor Riyadh Valley Company ...
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Gelson's Markets has announced that it will convert all of its private-label packaged eggs to cage-free this year. The company projects that close to 90% of its packaged egg sales will be cage-free by next year, with available eggs ...
Commodities trading company Glencore has entered into definitive agreement with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) to sell 40% equity interest of Glencore Agricultural Products for $2.5bn in cash transaction. Glencore's ...
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The move by the Government will see the current minimum wage upped from £6.70 per hour to £7.20 this month. But the news has our indie retail panel calling for a reassessment of 'already squeezed margins'. The livng wage ...
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ESSENTIALS from BENITO at Light + Building Fair BENITO is attending the Light + Building fair in Frankfurt with the latest developments in public luminary: the ELIUM range and ESSENTIALS range. The fair, being held from March 13 to 18, ...
Bacardi has renewed a multi-year distribution agreement with Horizon Beverage for Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Effective April 1, the exclusive agreement includes the sales and distribution of the entire premium portfolio of Bacardi ...
Tags: Bacardi, Horizon Beverage, Massachusetts, Rhode Island
Gimv has announced that its Belgain company Punch Powertrain has been 100% acquired by Chiense Yinyi group. The valuation agreed upon in the context of this transaction indicates that the contemplated sale could have a positive impact of ...
Tags: Gimv, Yinyi group, Punch Powertrain, Aquisition
Future radar imaging systems and 5G communication systems will generate improved resolution and provide higher data-transmission rates when operated at higher frequencies, but at the cost of increased power consumption. To reduce power ...
Swedish firm iFoodbag has received a €1.7m grant from the European Commission (EC) to develop the next generation carrier bag for grocery industry. The grant, which was provided under Horizon 2020 SME instrument programme, will be ...
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UK-based AquiSense Technologies (Europe) Ltd, a subsidiary of UV-C LED system manufacturer AquiSense Technologies LLC of Florence, KT, USA, has been selected to participate in the project Biocontamination Integrated Control for Wet Systems ...
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Chile's ALMA observatory says it is joining forces with other space observatories around the world to create a virtual earth-sized telescope capable of visualizing objects on the moon. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ...
Tags: ALMA, World Observatories, Virtual Earth-sized Telescope
The gold industry is not doing enough to combat debt and rising losses and not investing enough in exploration, Randgold CEO Mark Bristow said Tuesday. "A number of major companies in the industry today are simply not viable," Bristow ...
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Hosted by Stephen Doughty (the Member of Parliament for the Cardiff South and Penarth constituency), an event in the UK Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, has formally launched the Compound Semiconductor Centre (CSC), formed at ...
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Australian leading walnut producer Webster Limited yesterday announced that a ‘nut set issue’ will likely impact the company’s 2016 crop yield. Although Webster says the impact on the 2016 yield is still being assessed, ...
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Johnson Health Tech, owner of the Matrix, Vision, and Horizon fitness equipment brands announced that it has acquired 2nd Wind Exercise Equipment, North America’s largest specialty fitness equipment retailer with 58 retail locations ...