Swiss cement company Holcim Ltd sees net profits jump 67%

Monday, May 2, 2005 Swiss cement firm Holcim Ltd. today reported that net profits jumped by 67% in the first quarter. The company which has operations in over 70 countries revealed that first quarter profits were 169m Swiss francs (€110m; US$141m) up from 101m Swiss Francs last year. Despite what appears to be a large […]

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Business Casual Shoes

Read More About: Cheap Australian Soccer Jerseys Australia Soccer Jerseys Business Casual Shoes by Geosandler Friday, at the office is considered business casual days. What does it mean exactly? Business is business and casual is casual so as to combine the a couple of styles? Friday is dress down day, then you know that business […]

49 dead after Comair regional jet crashes in Kentucky

Monday, August 28, 2006 A Comair commuter jet crashed on takeoff from Lexington, Kentucky yesterday, killing 49 people on board and seriously injuring the plane’s first officer, James M. Polehinke. The early-morning Flight 5191 was operating as Delta Connection and was headed from Lexington’s Blue Grass Airport to Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. It crashed about […]

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WSJ: Diller close to $2 billion deal for Ask Jeeves

Monday, March 21, 2005 Barry Diller’s InterActiveCorp (IAC) is near a US$2 billion deal to buy search engine Ask Jeeves, according to a report in Monday’s Wall Street Journal. The corporate boards from both companies were in talks all weekend negotiating what appears to be an all-stock deal. If approved, the price tag would be […]

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