For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2013 (to end-March), Advanced Photonix Inc of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz instrumentation) has ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
The Qualifying Renewable Chemical Production Tax Credit Act of 2013 has been introduced by the new legislation to reduce taxes for producers of renewable chemicals in the US. The act also provides the renewable chemical producers with ...
Peru's Ministry of Production, Promperu and the ACP Group have signed an agreement to jointly promote exports of cotton garments from Gamarra to Brazil. As per the agreement, the goal is to achieve textile and garment exports of US$ ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
Ennis, reported financial results for the first quarter ended May 31, 2013. Highlights for the quarter include Consolidated gross profit margin increased 610 basis points -Print gross profit margin increased 180 basis points -Apparel ...
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Israel's Supreme Court has given the government 15 days to respond to an appeal by four Knesset members and four environmental and political organizations against the government's authority to decide on the export of offshore gas reserves, ...
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Results from a recent survey suggest that the industrial sector is generally optimistic about its growth prospects for the coming year, but sees an array of regulatory and policy-related issues as threats to its continued recovery. These ...
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A string of footballers and other celebrities have been accused of using an extravagant data centre construction scheme in a bid to avoid tax. The data centres, on the Cobalt business park just outside Newcastle, are completely empty two ...
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The Pakistan Second-Hand Clothing Merchants Association (PSCMA) has called on the Government to rollback the 16 percent hike in sales tax on import of second-hand garments. In its recently released 2013-14 Budget, Pakistan ...
Tags: Pakistan, Used Garments, Apparel&Accessories
Coffee giant Starbucks has refused to comment on plans to tackle tax avoidance agreed by G8 leaders in Northern Ireland yesterday (June 18). Many have found Starbucks' UK tax strategy hard to swallow A spokeswoman for the firm ...
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Carl Icahn's bid to disrupt plans to buyout Dell have ramped up, with the billionaire offering to pay $14 a share for a majority stake in the company if shareholders help him in reducing the proposed $24.4bn (£15.6bn) offer for the ...
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Microsoft routinely passes on details of security flaws in its own software to the National Security Agency (NSA) before it has produced and issued patches to users of its software around the world. The news partly confirms widely held ...
VIZIO announced the United States District Court of the Central District of California, Hon. Mariana Pfaelzer presiding, granted summary judgment of invalidity on a patent held by Lochner Technologies LLC, ruling all the asserted claims are ...
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EU Commissioner for Justice Viviane Reding has raised her concerns over the Prism surveillance information-sharing programme with the US Attorney General Eric Holder, who she is to meet in Dublin on Friday. In a statement on her website, ...
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KapStone Paper and Packaging has entered into an agreement to acquire the stock of the US-based containerboard manufacturer Longview Fibre Paper and Packaging from Brookfield Capital Partners II for $1.03bn. KapStone chairman and chief ...
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Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital have completed the previously announced $28bn acquisition of American food company HJ Heinz. The consortium had entered into an agreement on 14 February to acquire Heinz for $28bn, including the ...
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