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Scott Technology Secures its Largest Appliance Contract in China
11 Dec 2024
AUCKLAND, NZ [11 DEC 2024] - Scott Technology (NZX:SCT) has secured its largest-ever appliance automation contract in China.
Premier Beehive’s Palmerston North Distribution Centre Achieves Outstanding Five-Year Safety Record
06 Dec 2024
Premier Beehive’s New Zealand Palmerston North Distribution Centre has achieved an incredible milestone of five years free from Lost Time Injuries (LTI).
JBS Beef City Celebrates 50 Years
02 Nov 2024
JBS Australia is proud to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its Beef City site, a pivotal part of Australia’s largest beef processing and feedlot operations.
JBS Australia teams come together for the 2024 BeefEx Conference
18 Oct 2024
JBS Australia was well represented at the 2024 BeefEx Conference in Brisbane, joining hundreds of industry leaders for the event from Oct. 15-18.
JBS USA and GreenGasUSA Partner to Transform Renewable Natural Gas Production
17 Sep 2024
Greeley, Colorado and Charleston, South Carolina – JBS USA, a leading global food producer, and GreenGasUSA today announced a new partnership to produce rene..)
JBS Field is a “True Home Run” for Cactus, Texas
10 Sep 2024
Little League in Cactus, Texas hit a home run as local elected officials and JBS team members gathered for the grand opening of JBS Field on Sept. 7.
Primo Food’s Reed Stephens wins AMIC 2024 Young Smallgoods Achiever of the Year Award
06 Sep 2024
Congratulations to Primo Foods PLM Manager, Reed Stephens, who won the inaugural Young Smallgoods Achiever of the 2024 Year at the Australian Charcuterie Exc..)
JBS Australia’s Beef City bioenergy system now in operation
29 Aug 2024
The system will eliminate the equivalent of ~34,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually.
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Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.
Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.
Samuel Slater – textile tycoon or traitor?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Dec 2023
Samuel Slater is a name that holds significant importance in the annals of American industrial history. Often referred to as the ‘Father of the American Factory System’, Slater's contributions played a pivotal role in shaping the nation’s industrial landscape.
Underwood Typewriter Company – an icon of the past
By Kiron Kasbekar | 21 Dec 2023
You’ve probably never heard of Underwood typewriters. For the company folded up in 1963 – 60 years ago. You may not even have seen and handled a typewriter, unless someone in your family owned one.
The rise and fall of Chrysler
By Kiron Kasbekar | 16 Dec 2023
A century ago, the American automobile industry was more crowded than a vegetable market on a Sunday morning, with such a wide variety of stuff on sale that buyers were spoilt for choice. Buyers could pick and choose, bargain, pay up and drive out with the newly purchased vehicle.
TRW – the tide turned
By Kiron Kasbekar | 13 Dec 2023
There used to be an American company called Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. This company, which was a global supplier of automotive systems, modules, and components to car and truck manufacturers, started small, as most companies do. Then, as the automotive industry grew bigger, so did TRW.
The rise and fall of Nokia
By Aniket Gupta | 07 Dec 2023
My interest is stories about dominant companies that failed all of a sudden. These companies were once etched into people’s minds but have since become a symbol of nostalgia. One such company, which was the biggest in its industry before it failed catastrophically, is Nokia.
Yahoo!: The first king of the internet
By Aniket Gupta | 01 Dec 2023
The year is 1994. You go to the internet to search for a particular website, but there is no Google that could be used to search your desired website. What do you do? The answer is that you use Yahoo.
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