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In a complaint filed on the 15 February in a federal court in the US state of Kentucky, GE has alleged that Embraco North America, a venture controlled by consumer goods giant Whirlpool and two other European suppliers, Danfoss of Denmark and Househol…

Consultancy KPMG has urged companies to focus on the area and make it “fit for purpose” in a rapidly changing world.

The consultancy published a new report, The future of corporate reporting: towards a common vision, which warns that improved reporti…

The stated objective of the suggested project was to optimise Aeroflot MRO and lower costs for technical maintenance of aircraft. The board considered a viable creation of two joint ventures – for aircraft maintenance and repair operations and c…

Sourcing technology solution provider CombineNet and transportation management services and logistics technology firm Transplace made an initial agreement three years ago but have now signed a deal to work together for a further three.

The solut…

The Job Pairin offering is designed to identify optimal interview candidates by comparing them to the Gold Standard created through testing of existing employees in the same positions according to 137 peak performance drivers.

The offering was create…

“This is clearly a substantial Europe-wide incident, which is still unfolding, and one that poses a major challenge to the robustness of procedures and standards within the European Union meat marketplace,” the organisation said in a statement.

“This…

The analyst house states that businesses and training providers have taken to “gamifying” their training material. By transforming boring data into fun games, fixed corporate objectives can be achieved more easily.

For instance, Thomson Reuters has r…

It was announced last week that Brazilian private equity firm 3G Capital and Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway had agreed a deal to take over Heinz a move that is expected to more than double the company’s current debt from $12bn to $23bn…

The gensets feature distributed power generation units that use reciprocating internal combustion engines to produce useable energy from gaseous fuels.

According to market watchers, distributed generation has several advantages over tr…

The gensets feature distributed power generation units that use reciprocating internal combustion engines to produce useable energy from gaseous fuels.

According to market watchers, distributed generation has several advantages over tr…