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Ocado enters sale and lease back deal with Morrisons for Dordon facility
LONDON - Morrisons Supermarkets, one of the major British retail chains, has entered into a 170 million pounds and 25-year agreement with Ocado Group plc ("Ocado"), to acquire its recently opened Dordon Customer Fulfilment Centre (CFC) in the Midlands, and lease it back with commitment to use its logistics and distribution facilities to start grocery deliveries to customers by January ...
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Preity Zinta makes her debut as producer in Ishkq in Paris in Mumbai
Bollywood actress Preity Zinta has made her debut as a producer with the promotion of her romantic comedy Ishkq in Paris in Mumbai. Zinta is set to return to the silver screen after a three-year sabbatical. Directed by Prem Raj, the film is shot partly in Paris and India and is a story about a couple, two complete strangers, after having met on a train from Rome to Paris, end up spending the ...
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Government agencies have procured over 243 lakh tons of wheat
Government agencies have procured over 243 lakh tons of wheat during ongoing Rabi marketing season, an official release has said. As per data available from the fields till May 17, 2013, total wheat procured during the season in various states is 243, 57,056 tons. So far Punjab has led the procurement with 107, 98,688 tons, followed by Madhya Pradesh with 59, 89, 800 tons and Haryana with 58, ...
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New Bacardi Ad Re-Creates Rum-and-Coke History
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Parkinson Bradford fans deserve promotion
The Yorkshire outfit secured their promotion to the third tier of English football at a canter, running out 3-0 winners courtesy of three first-half goals at Wembley on ...
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Panic Room
David Fincher's Panic Room is a first-rate nail biter, a taut, claustrophobic thriller that is part modern Hitchcock and part Peckinpah with a gender twist. Although little more than a slick exercise in cinematic suspense, it delivers in every area promised. Some critics may complain that it lacks any real meaning, especially after Fincher's Fight Club (1999), a film so deeply immer ... ...
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Foreign Office Launches Major Marketing Campaign in Bulgaria
The Telegraph by Cristopher Hope Months before the UK's borders open to Bulgarians, the Government has launched a marketing campaign in the eastern European country about how "great" Britain is. The Foreign Office is launching a "GREAT" campaign in Bulgaria with a series of "British weeks between 26 May and 11 June 2013. The weeks will showcase "British ...
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Denver Business Journal wins 33 awards in 4-state Society of Professional Journalists news competition
The DBJ's award-winning coverage of the 2012 election. The Denver Business Journal staff has won 33 awards, including 13 first-place honors, in a four-state Society of Professional Journalists competition. The SPJ's "Top of the Rockies" awards for excellence in newspaper, digital and broadcast news were presented Friday night at the Denver Press Club. The Journal won nearly twice ...
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6 travel agents rewarded for tour promotions in Haitang Bay Sanya
The Haitang Bay Management Committee in Sanya hosted a conference to award top-performing travel agents as part of a tour sales incentive scheme at Hainan Bay on May 16. This March, the Committee invited travel agencies to develop and promote tours to Haitang Bay. The drive started on April 1st and will last until September 30th. In April, the hotels and scenic spots in Haitang Bay ...
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Technology Is Changing the Way We Market—and Spend
Technology Is Changing the Way We Market Do the math, says Laura McLellan, Research VP in Gartner's Marketing Leaders research group. Marketing budgets are greater than IT budgets, and growing--whereas IT budgets are fairly flat. "Marketing is driven by growth...which means marketers need to take risks," McLellan says, adding that in today's increasingly digital world ...
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A year after lacklustre IPO Facebook looks to become an advertising giant
Facebook's stock finished its first day of trading just 23 cents higher than its $38 (U.S.) IPO price. It hasn't been that high since. (DADO ...
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- Ocado enters sale and lease back deal with Morrisons for Dordon facility
- Preity Zinta makes her debut as producer in Ishkq in Paris in Mumbai
- Government agencies have procured over 243 lakh tons of wheat
- New Bacardi Ad Re-Creates Rum-and-Coke History
- Parkinson Bradford fans deserve promotion
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