06.10.2015
- Canada’s Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan has withdrawn its €41 per share offer for potash and salt producer K+S. In reaction to the news, Shares in K+S plunged, while Potash shares...
01.10.2015
- France’s minister for foreign trade, Matthias Fekl, has suggested that the EU should pull out of negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) if the US...
03.09.2015
- In mid-2015, BASF opened its first e-commerce store in China, using the Alibaba B2B marketplace platform. According to the company press release, with this step, “BASF is making...
27.08.2015
- Monsanto has abandoned plans to acquire Syngenta, a merger which would have created an agricultural giant, after the Swiss seeds company rejected its latest bid of Swiss Francs 470...
19.08.2015
- On August 12, a fire at a dangerous goods warehouse operated by Ruihai Logistics at the Tianjin harbor quickly turned into a disaster as it triggered two substantial explosions...
28.07.2015
- In the latest chapter of the ongoing controversy over the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US and the EU, members of the German Bundestag...
27.07.2015
- Two trillion euros in annual turnover, 22 million jobs employing 9% of the European workforce and growing — the European Commission envisions a bright future for the European...
20.07.2015
- A European Commission (EC) proposal to allow member states to restrict or prohibit the import of genetically modified crops for food or feed, even if they have been approved by the...
26.06.2015
- Shell has received an air-permit application for a proposed ethane-best petrochemical complex in western Pennsylvania from the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)...