Industry
PE firm Cerberus to acquire five supermarket chains from Supervau for $3.3 bn
11 Jan 2013
Supervalu Inc, the third-largest US grocery store operator, is one of the largest companies in the US grocery channel with annual sales of approximately $35 billion
Half the world’s food output is wasted: study
10 Jan 2013
The report, ‘Global Food; Waste Not, Want Not’, suggested that half the food bought in Europe and the US was thrown away while the worldwide figure is well over 30 per cent
TransCanada, Progress Energy in $5-bn pipeline deal
10 Jan 2013
On completion of the Prince Rupert and Coastal GasLink pipeline projects, TransCanada’s natural gas pipeline network in Western Canada will reach approximately 25,400 km
DNA pioneer James Watson slams cancer research establishment
09 Jan 2013
Nobel winner James Watson, says the cure for many cancers would remain elusive unless scientists rethought the role of antioxidants, which he says may have caused more cancers than they have prevented