US-based Niagara Bottling has chosen a site at Seguin in Texas to construct its new water bottling factory. Construction of the 557,000 ft2 facility is scheduled to commence in near future and be completed by early 2016. The factory ...
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The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) slashed key interest rate to a record low of 7 per cent at the weekend, laying a foundation for implementing growth-oriented economic policies in the country, the country’s media has reported. ...
Kona Brewing Company has announced plans to invest $15mn for expansion of its brewery operations in Hawaii, US. The expansion plans include construction of a new 30,000ft2 brewery that would boost Kona's annual brewing capacity to ...
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China will regulate preferential tax policies, forbidding local taxation authorities from making such policies, according to a statement released Tuesday by the central government's website. The State Council, China's cabinet, recently ...
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The UK retail and property sectors are poised to hear whether the Chancellor will use his final chance to make meaningful reforms to the business rates burden in his Autumn Statement, according to the British Council of Shopping Centres ...
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Illinois-based KapStone Paper and Packaging will spend about $115m at its Cooper River site to modernise three papermaking machines and to make other improvements for increasing the capacity and efficiency. In a statement released on ...
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US investment bank Goldman Sachs said Wednesday it has upgraded its three-month and six-month nickel price forecasts on the back of the Indonesian ban on nickel ore exports. The bank notes that following a fragmented Indonesian election ...
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Democratic Republic of Congo aims to double tax revenues from minerals but investors warned that an overhaul of the mining code could remove incentives to invest there. Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo told a mining conference in the ...
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The UK government believes there is much greater opportunity in developing the North Sea's remaining oil and gas resources than in the fledgling onshore shale gas sector, and plans to implement speedily recommendations laid out in a final ...
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It's not too often you actually hear somebody come out in favour of a tax increase, but that exactly what Chris Burruss did. Speaking at the Driving for Profit conference in Mississauga, Ont., the president of the Truckload Carriers ...
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Tax revenues continue bouncing back from the low levels reported in almost all countries , at the height of the global economic crisis, according to new OECD data in the annual Revenue Statistics publication. The average tax revenue to GDP ...
The development of shale gas in Europe could add as many as one million jobs to the economy, make industry more competitive and decrease the region’s dependence on energy imports, according to a new study released today. The ...
The federal deficit – the amount by which the US government’s total budget outlay exceeds its total receipts for a fiscal year – is estimated at $680 billion for 2013. The federal debt – the sum total of the ...
"Extremely encouraging" is how National Lighting Bureau Executive Director John Bachner characterized second-quarter 2013 performance of the NEMA Lighting Systems Index (LSI), which posted its strongest showing since the third quarter of ...
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“Extremely encouraging” is how National Lighting Bureau Executive Director John Bachner characterized 2Q13 performance of the NEMA Lighting Systems Index (LSI), which posted its strongest showing since the 3Q08. “The ...
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