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Biscuit International Buys Northumbrian Fine Foods

Biscuit International has acquired UK-based gluten and milk-free biscuit manufacturer Northumbrian Fine Foods (NFF) from CriSeren Foods. NFF produces Prewett’s range of branded biscuits and also supplies supermarket own-label ...

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HC Private Investments Announces Strategic Investment in Kruger Plastic Products

HC Private Investments (HCPI), a Chicago-based private investment firm, has acquired Kruger Plastic Products (Kruger), a family-owned, custom injection molding manufacturer of niche products and components. Kruger’s senior ...

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Alibaba Invests in Chinese Electric Car Startup XPENG Motors

XPENG Motors has completed three rounds of series A+ financing and scheduled to disclose series B round in early 2018. He Xiaopeng, Chairman of XPENG Motors, announces that the company has completed three rounds of series A+ financing and ...

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Anchor Glass Container Names New Vice President of Erngineering

Anchor Glass Container has announced the following additions to the Anchor Glass Senior Leadership Team. Steve Stout has been named as Vice President-Engineering. Steve will be responsible for strategic capital investments and developing ...

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Evatec Expanding Greater China Operations to Support Rapid Business Growth

Evatec Ltd of Trübbach, Switzerland (which makes thin-film deposition and etch processing equipment for advanced packaging, power device, MEMS, optoelectronics, wireless communication and photonics applications) is setting up its own ...

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Centerbridge Partners Acquires Industrial Container Services

ICSH Parent, the parent company of Industrial Container Services, has announced that it has been acquired by funds advised by Centerbridge Partners, a leading private investment firm. Prior to this transaction, ICS was owned by affiliates ...

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Real Good Food Acquires Majority Stake in Brighter Foods

Real Good Food announced that it has acquired an 84.33% stake in Brighter Foods for total consideration of up to £9m, on a cash and debt free basis. The two companies announced a new partnership to build on the success for the Wales ...

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Crown Announces Senior Management Changes

Crown Holdings announced that Gerard Gifford has been appointed as executive vice president and chief operating officer effective 01 April 2017. In this new role, Mr. Gifford will continue to report to Timothy J. Donahue, President and ...

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The 7000th FAW Jiefang JH6 High End Truck Rolled off

On December 5, the 7000th JH6 high end truck roll-off event was held in the assembling workshop in FAW Jiefang Qingdao Limited Company. FAW vice general manager Dong Chunbo, FAW general manager assistant Wang Lizhi, Jiefang general manager ...

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Japan's Sumitomo to Acquire Irish Fruit Firm Fyffes for €751m

Sumitomo has entered into an agreement to acquire Irish fruit grower Fyffes for €751m to increase its fruit imports in Japan. The global trading company which imports about 30% of bananas to Japan has offered to buy each of the ...

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Greencore to Buy Peacock Foods for $747.5m

Irish food company Greencore Group has announced the proposed acquisition of Peacock Foods for $747.5m to expand its presence in the US. The US based Peacock Foods is headquartered in Geneva, Illinois and is into producing frozen ...

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Spanish Firm Saica Agrees to Acquire Americk Packaging

Spanish firm Saica Group has agreed to acquire Irish-owned Americk Packaging Group of companies. Americk produces labels and cartons, as well as environmental and flexible packaging solutions. The company manufactures reel-fed, ...

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Workshop on Technologies and Equipment for Global Energy Interconnection Held in Berlin, Germany

The conference on technologies and equipment for global energy interconnection was held in Berlin from December 10 to 11, 2015 local time. This conference was co-hosted by State Grid Corporation of China or SGCC, and German Electrical and ...

Orbis Names New Senior Commercial Director for Europe

Orbis, an international manufacturer of reusable packaging and supply chain optimization expert, has names David Heer as the senior commercial director for Orbis Europe. In this new role, Heer is responsible for leading the ORBIS reusable ...

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