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Kraft Heinz Launches Food Start up Incubator Platform
Mar 12, 2018Kraft Heinz has launched a new platform, called Springboard, which seeks to partner with and incubate fast-growing, disruptive brands. The platform is dedicated to nurturing, scaling, and accelerating growth of disruptive US brands within ...
Tags: Kraft Heinz, Incubator
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Campbell Soup to Acquire Pacific Foods for $700m
Jul 10, 2017Campbell Soup has agreed to acquire organic food manufacturer Pacific Foods of Oregon for $700m in an all cash deal to expand its footprint in the rapidly growing health and well-being categories. Based in Tualatin, Oregon, Pacific Foods ...
Tags: Campbell Soup, organic food
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NatureSweet Tomatoes Announces New Chief Financial Officer
Nov 22, 2016NatureSweet Tomatoes announced seasoned financial executive Bo Meissner as its new chief financial officer. "Bo brings a depth of experience to his role as leader of our financial team," said NatureSweet CEO and President Bryant Ambelang. ...
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Pioneer Foods to Acquire Stake in Cereal Maker Weetabix East Africa
Nov 22, 2016South African food company Pioneer Foods has announced that it would buy a 49.89% stake in major FMCG manufacturer Weetabix East Africa for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition is expected to establish a strategic beachhead for Pioneer ...
Tags: Pioneer Foods, Cereal
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Mars to Combine Chocolate and Wrigley Segments
Oct 11, 2016American confectionary giant Mars has unveiled plans to combine merge chocolate and wrigley segments to form a new company aimed at unifying its chocolate and candy business. Named as Mars Wrigley Confectionery, the new company will help ...
Tags: Mars, chocolate and wrigley segments, merger
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Owens Corning Acquires InterWrap for $450m
May 19, 2016Owens Corning (OC) has acquired InterWrap, a British Columbia based manufacturer of roofing underlayment and packaging materials, for $450m. InterWrap, through its facilities in the US, Canada, India and China, produces synthetic roofing ...
Tags: Owens Corning, InterWrap
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Worldwide IT Spending Forecast to Decline 0.5% in 2016
Apr 11, 2016Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total US$3.49 trillion in 2016, a decline of 0.5% over 2015 spending of US$3.5 trillion, according to Gartner. This is down from last quarter's forecast of 0.5% growth. The change in the forecast is ...
Tags: device market, printers
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EPC Appoints Senior VP of Global Sales & Marketing
Dec 2, 2015Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, says that, to support its accelerating ...
Tags: EPC, GaN, semiconductors
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PEI to Take Direct Control of Canada Business
Sep 1, 2015Perry Ellis International, Inc. a leading American designer, distributor and licensor of a broad line of high quality men's and women's apparel, accessories and fragrances, has announced that it is assuming direct control of the Perry Ellis ...
Tags: Perry Ellis, women's apparel, men's apparel
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Emcore Corp of Alhambra Has Reported Revenue of $19.1m
May 19, 2015For its fiscal second-quarter 2015 (to end-March), Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA (which provides compound semiconductor-based components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics market) has reported revenue of ...
Tags: fiber-optics, Emcore
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Vasari Opens Phase I of a New Food Production Facility in Ethiopia for $150m
May 8, 2015Vasari Global, along with Ethiopian entrepreneur Solomon Wondimneh and his company Ahadu, has opened phase I of a new food production facility in Ethiopia which is valued at around $150m. The launch marks capital deployment of $36m ...
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Adidas Group Unveiled Its New Strategic Business Plan Aims at Further Accelerating Growth
Mar 30, 2015At its Investor Day held in Germany, the Adidas Group unveiled its new strategic business plan until the year 2020, which aims at further accelerating growth by significantly increasing brand desirability. “This is expected to ...
Tags: Adidas, new business plan, Adidas Neo
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Adidas Group Presented Its New Strategic Business Plan to Accelerate Growth
Mar 27, 2015At its Investor Day in Herzogenaurach, the Adidas Group presented its new strategic business plan called "“Creating the New,” designed to accelerating growth significantly. Revenues are projected to increase at a ...
Tags: Adidas Group, Speed, Sporting Goods
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SAIL Ready to Cater to The Increased Steel Demand in a Cost-Effective Manner
Sep 25, 2014C. S. Verma, chairman of Indian state-owned steel producer Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), has said that the company is ready "to cater to the increased steel demand in a cost-effective manner by way of adoption of modern ...
Tags: Steel Demand, Mineral
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Eastman Chemical Entered Into a Definitive Agreement with Taminco Corporation
Sep 15, 2014Eastman Chemical Company has entered into a definitive agreement with Taminco Corporation under which Eastman will acquire Taminco, a global specialty chemical company. Under the terms of the agreement, Taminco stockholders will receive ...
