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ORLANDO, Florida - RESORT PROPERTY OFFERS FOUR-STAR, LUXURY ENVIRONMENT COMBINED WITH
UNIQUE ROCK VIBE
HARROGATE, England - The annual Bridal Buyer Awards is a highlight of the year for designers,
manufacturers and retailers in the bridal industry, and a celebration of the
skills and creativity that firmly place British talent up there on the global
playing field. This year, a new category was added, Wedding Dress of the
Year.
BARDON, England - Benson Group, headquartered in Bardon, Leicestershire, the UK Packaging
Company of the Year, has announced details of its newly acquired “ISO 12647
Proficient Printer” status, as awarded by colour specialists Mellow Colour,
for its Benson Box printed carton operation.
LONDON - Unite, the UK’s largest union, reacted angrily today (Thursday) to the
growing threat to jobs at United Biscuits’ Liverpool site posed by a
restructuring programme which could see 125 jobs offshored to India.
GENEVA - TAG Heuer, the well-known luxury watch brand belonging to LVMH
Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton, the global leader in luxury brands, has chosen
IC-Agency, a market leader in luxury digital marketing, to sustainably
increase its Internet presence. The strategy deployed encompasses not only
Google, Yahoo! and MSN, but also search engines such as Baidu and Yandex,
market leaders in the high-growth markets of China and Russia, respectively.
NEW YORK - Brendan Light, Senior Vice President of Research and Product Development
at BuzzBack Market Research will host two free Webinars: New Ways to Improve
Online Consumer Research, on Wednesday, March 18 at 2 PM Eastern and
Thursday, March 19 at 10 AM Eastern.
TEL AVIV - New Clinical Device for Body Generates Inch-Loss, Cellulite Reduction
and the Tightening of Lax Skin
LONDON - New research released to mark No Smoking Day (11 March) shows more than
one in three (36%) of the nine million smokers in Great Britain are thinking
about or planning to cut down or quit as a direct result of the economic
downturn. The poll also shows that one in ten (9%) will be taking the first
step and making a quit attempt on No Smoking Day.
LONDON - Unite members who worked for an Ipswich firm have secured a legal victory
and substantial compensation following their successful claim at an
Employment Tribunal. Unite, the UK’s largest engineering union, has been
pursuing legal cases on behalf of 14 sacked members.
AMERSFOORT, The Netherlands - Arla Foods amba and Royal FrieslandCampina N.V. have reached agreement in
principle about the sale and purchase of all the shares in Friesland Foods
Fresh Nijkerk by Arla Foods. The transaction includes the Friesland Foods
Fresh Nijkerk fresh dairy business, its assets and the brands Breaker,
Milk&Fruit and Kwarkyoghurt. A ten-year licence agreement has been entered
into for the use of the Friesche Vlag brand for fresh dairy products in the
Netherlands only. The former Campina brand, Melkunie, is also part of the
transaction. The transaction is expected to be completed in the second
quarter of this year. FrieslandCampina is guaranteeing the supply of raw milk
to the factory in Nijkerk until 1 January 2017. The transfer of the Friesland
Foods Fresh operations to Arla Foods is partly dependent on European
Commission approval.
CINCINNATI - Chiquita Brands International, Inc. (NYSE: CQB) today announced that
Fernando Aguirre, chief executive officer, and Jeffrey M. Zalla, chief
financial officer, will participate in the Second Jefferies Consumer Summit
on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 in New York City.
CINCINNATI - Chiquita Brands International, Inc. (NYSE: CQB) announced today that it
will hold its Annual Meeting of Shareholders on May 20, 2009, on the 28th
floor of the Chiquita Center at 250 East Fifth Street, Cincinnati. The record
date for determining shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting will be
March 23, 2009. In mid-April, the company will mail to shareholders of record
a notice of the meeting and information about accessing the proxy materials
online or obtaining paper copies.
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