US soft drinks giant PepsiCo withdraws a Mountain Dew ad over criticism that it depicts racial stereotypes and makes light of violence against women.
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A mountain of maturing cheddar cheese is to be used as security for a pension fund, which includes thousands of retired milkmen
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Spanish owner Abertis sells struggling airport, where passenger numbers have halved, in attempt to pay down debt mountain
Cardiff airport has been sold by its debt-laden Spanish owner to the Welsh government for £52m.
Abertis had been in negotiations with officials since November last year as it tried to pay down its €14.1bn debt mountain. Cardiff is the first of three UK airports it hopes to offload.
The deal will see the Welsh government manage the struggling airport at arms’ length in the hope of improving passenger numbers, which have halved in the past five years to just a million.
Barcelona-based Abertis, which is one of the world’s largest toll-road operators, also owns Belfast airport and controls the 30-year lease at Luton airport and could sell both, after Stansted and Edinburgh airports were sold by rival Heathrow Holdings for a combined £2.3bn. Luton council, the lease owner for Luton airport, forced the company to invest £100m or risk losing its contract, in the hope of doubling passenger numbers to 18m.
Abertis runs 29 airports around the world, but is looking at downsizing after finding itself struggling during the recession.
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CALGARY, ALBERTA–(Marketwire – March 3, 2013) - The Fraser Institute will release a new report examining Alberta’s Heritage Fund on Monday, March 4 at 6:30 a.m. (Mountain).
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(Marketwire – Jan 31, 2013) – As a follow-up to a story run by the New York Times on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 announcing they had been the target of a cyber attack, Symantec (
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – Nov. 16, 2012) - Victory Mountain Ventures Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:VMV) announces that it has closed the second and final tranche of a non-brokered private placement originally announced July 30, 2012. The Company had previously announced on September 5, 2012 that it had closed the first tranche consisting of 3,340,000 units at a price of $0.15 for total proceeds of $501,000.
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ONTARIO, November 8, 2012:
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CARLSBAD, Calif. – October 12, 2012 – Robert Brehm, CEO announced today that Green Mountain Development Corp (OTC Markets: GMND) and Nick Kontonicolas, Director of GMND and CEO of C. Trade Group will concentrate their joint efforts on oil & gas drilling JV projects and the expansion or worldwide pharmaceutical and microbial product distribution in the new fiscal year.
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Rescuers search for missing climbers after Nepal avalanche
Reuters By Gopal Sharma | KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepali rescue helicopters searched on Monday for at least three foreign climbers missing on a Himalayan mountain after a weekend avalanche swept away camps and killed 11 people in the worst such disaster in … Avalanche on Nepal peak kills at least 9 climbers Search resumes in Nepal after deadly avalanche on one of world's tallest peaks Avalanche on world's 8th highest mountain in Nepal kills at least 9 climbers … |