Grocers including Whole Foods Market, Kroger and Stop & Shop have had to hire third party verifiers to root out produce that contains pesticide residue despite the green-and-white USDA Organic seal, the CEO of product tester Scientific Certification Services says. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
High Demand in Japan for LiteScape Technologies Converged Communication Applications to Be Fulfilled by Sumisho Computer Systems Corporation, an Affiliate of Sumitomo Corporation REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. & TOKYO -- LiteScape Technologies, Inc. (www.litescape.com) and Sumitomo Corporation affiliate Sumisho Computer Systems Corporation SCS (http://www.scs.co.jp/english/index.html) today jointly announced that LiteScape has...
TOKYO -- Sumisho Computer Systems Corporation (TOKYO:9719), hereinafter referred as SCS and Sumisho Electronics Co., Ltd., (JASDAQ:7556), hereinafter referred as SSE announced the updates regarding the previously disclosed merger agreement. As reported in the press release on March 31, 2005 the attached, the two companies have reached an agreement to...
CERTIFICATION & RECOMMENDATIONS When researching green options, look for "third-party" certification. The EPA specifies third-party certifiers must have an open, public process for developing criteria, a system of data verification, peer review, no financial interest in the organization seeking certification and transparency of the standard and the certification process....
THE PUBS giant Mitchells & Butlers will report its maiden full- year results as a standalone entity on Thursday following its demerger from Six Continents this year. Investor attention will be on M&B's top line for signs that the group's managed pubs estate can break its disappointing run of underachievement...
SINGAPORE -- Singapore Computer Systems Limited ("SCS"), a leading information and communications service provider in the Asia-Pacific region, has enhanced its security consulting portfolio with the Cisco SystemsR (NASDAQ:CSCO) lifecycle services approach. SCS is the first company in Singapore to benefit from this approach introduced through the CiscoR Partner Business...
Will It Work? is an EBJ civic series in which authorities in the business community give constructive criticism to the business plan of a new business owner. When Boeing Co. announced late last year that it would lay off about 35,000 employees worldwide, Jana...
Last year was one many U.K. financial technology vendors would prefer to forget. The U.K. IT sector declared the highest number of profit warnings since 1998, and there are concerns about an overall rise in warnings again. The U.K. software and services SCS sector suffered a three-fold increase in...
Business Editors LONDON--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 21, 2000 Stolt-Nielsen S.A. (Nasdaq: STLTF, STLBY; Oslo Stock Exchange: SNIB) announced today that it has successfully completed its previously announced exchange offer. At the close of the exchange offer on February 18, 2000, 7.9...
Business Editors LONDON--BUSINESS WIRE--January 14, 2000 Stolt-Nielsen S.A. (Nasdaq: STLTF, STLBY; Oslo Stock Exchange: SNIB) announced today that it intends to commence next week an exchange offer pursuant to which all holders of its outstanding Common Shares (Nasdaq: STLTF) will be offered the opportunity to exchange these shares...
LONDON--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 16, 1999-- Stolt-Nielsen S.A. (Nasdaq: STLTF)(Nasdaq:STLBY)(Oslo Stock Exchange:SNIB) announced today that at its meeting held on November 15, 1999, the Company's Board of Directors has decided to pay an interim dividend of $0.125 per Common Share and per Class B Share (including American Depositary Shares (ADS's) each...
LONDON--BUSINESS WIRE--October 26, 1999-- Stolt-Nielsen SA. (Nasdaq:STLTF,STLBY; Oslo Stock Exchange:SNIB) today confirmed that its subsidiary, Stolt Sea Farm, is involved in preliminary discussions and evaluations with the aim of purchasing the Hydro Seafood aquaculture business from its parent company, Norsk Hydro ASA. The process is still in the early...
LONDON--BUSINESS WIRE--July 19, 1999-- Stolt Sea Farm Inc. ("SSF"), the wholly-owned Canadian subsidiary of Stolt Sea Farm Holdings Ltd. which is a subsidiary of Stolt-Nielsen S.A. (Nasdaq:STLTF, STLBY; Oslo Stock Exchange:SNIB), today announced it has mailed its Offer to purchase all of the issued and outstanding shares, including those...
M2 PRESSWIRE-20 November 1998-STOLT-NIELSEN S.A: Stolt-Nielsen S.A. board declares interim dividend C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:191198 Stolt-Nielsen S.A. (Nasdaq: STLTF, STLBY; Oslo Stock Exchange: SNIB) announced today that at its meeting held on November 18, 1998, the Company's Board of Directors has decided to pay an...
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 2, 1997--SCS Solars Computing (VSE: SCS) Mr. Frank Wells is pleased to announce that Mr. Andrew O'Leary has been appointed Vice President of Technology. Mr. O'Leary has been with the company for two years and has been responsible for development and implementation of...
The costs incurred in implementing closures of sanitary landfills can be minimized by developing a closure plan. Oxford City Services Director Mark Tate's experiences in landfill closure show that savings can be derived from cost-effective cap systems, redesigned leachate systems, passive landfill gas extraction systems and effective erosion control. The...
Scan-Optics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOCR), a leader in high volume document processing systems and information management solutions, announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire privately owned Southern Computer Systems, Inc. of Birmingham, AL SCS fir $7 million in cash or other consideration. SCS generated approximately $6.5 million in profitable...
The Soil Conservation Service got the go-ahead to delineate wetlands in agricultural areas for the entire federal government in a Jan. 6 agreement among the agencies responsible for wetlands protection. In the past, the Corps has done its own delineation if it was planning to issue...
Covalent TechnologiesTM, the most trusted source for complete enterprise open source solutions, today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Sumisho Computer Systems Corporation SCS, a leading systems integrator based in Tokyo, Japan.