Read more about L&T recruits 22 pc women at trainee level across major businesses in 2020 on Business Standard. In a strategic decision, engineering and construction major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has recruited 22 per cent women at trainee level across its major businesses in 2020, up 8 per cent over the previous year.Figures shared by L&T, suggest a rise in
Homegrown auto major Tata Motors is optimistic that the supply constraint of semiconductors that has impacted its commercial vehicles production will be back to normal by the second half of the next fiscal, according to a senior company official. The company, which had hiked prices in October and January to offset the impact of rising commodity rates, is looking at taking a similar step in April in the wake of continued increase in steel and other raw material prices. In H2 (second half of the ongoing fiscal), we have also seen the semiconductors becoming a major constraint. This is something which has actually affected us in the commercial vehicles (CVs) also, Tata Motors President Commercial Vehicle Business Unit Girish Wagh told PTI.
Baltimore Sun Deal Sets Up Major Test For Nonprofit News Model By Rob Lever
on March 14 2021 2:59 PM
After years of staff cuts, shrinking budgets and declining readership, the Baltimore Sun finally has some good news to report about itself: a deal for a new nonprofit group to take over, and potentially revive the struggling newspaper.
The plan unveiled in February comes in response to an extraordinary movement supported by civic and business leaders, sports figures, journalists and others to rescue the 184-year-old newspaper and bring it back to local ownership.
The nonprofit Sunlight for All Institute, led by businessman Stewart Bainum, struck the tentative deal to acquire the Sun and affiliated newspapers for $65 million as part of the sale of parent firm Tribune Publishing to Alden Global Capital.
Tauranga company increases revenue 88 per cent and doubles staff numbers amid pandemic
12 Mar, 2021 11:53 PM
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Bluelab chief executive Greg Jarvis. Photo / File
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Covid has been the catalyst for an award-winning Tauranga company to seize global opportunities that have seen its revenue grow 88 per cent, staff numbers double and allowed a major expansion. Bluelab is no stranger to success but when Wuhan in China went into lockdown last year it forced the company into a make-or-break situation, as the manufacturer of one of their critical components was in the epicentre of the pandemic.
Award winning Tauranga company Bluelab is back in the spotlight as it seizes global opportunities. Photo / Supplied