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MIAMI, March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Innovations Ltd. (OTCQB: GNIN) (OTCBB: GNIN) ("Green Innovations" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Green Hygienics, Inc. ("Green Hygienics"), is currently in the process of obtaining final approval for several of its flagship products to be distributed by Topco Associates LLC ("Topco"), a member-owned co-operative buying organization serving supermarket retailers, food wholesalers, and foodservice...

LONDON, February 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Co-operative Legal Services has urged the Government to regulate probate [http://www.co-operative.coop/legalservices/probate ] and estates administration providers - an industry which handles assets worth over GBP65 billion* each year. It follows an investigation by the Legal Services Board** which highlighted concerns about fraud, unethical sales practices and the safekeeping of consumers' money and other assets, plus a...

LONDON and MUMBAI, India, Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tata Consultancy Services (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions firm, announced it had won the prestigious 'Supply Chain Project of the Year' at the Hermes Retail Week UK Supply Chain Awards 2012. TCS won the award along with The Co-operative Group for implementing 'Store Merchandise and Replenishment System' (SMART), a major transformation programme for The Co-operative Group's...

TORONTO, Nov. 15, 2012 /CNW/ - It's called Co-op Week at Gay Lea Foods and it carries a 12-year tradition. And by the time this year's event ended, the co-operative's 650 employees had raised over $78,000 for a group of small co-operatives in Rwanda. For seven days at all Gay Lea locations, employees pay to participate and compete in a range of activities, from nail driving to pie tossing, waffle breakfasts to a silent auction, potlucks to Family Feud. They also earned BINGO...

Unlike women, men don’t curb certain risk-taking behaviors when a baby is present, a new psychology study at the University of Warwick suggests. Whereas women are significantly more cautious when they are partnered with small children in a gambling game measuring their attitude to risk, men don’t substantially alter their willingness to take a chance. Researchers suggested this could be due to evolutionary forces that select for men who are more competitive and risk-seeking in order...

CHICAGO, July 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Fonterra Co-operative, a global leader in dairy nutrition today announced the appointment of Mr. Theo Spierings as its new CEO. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110714/CG35458) Mr. Spierings, who led the Dutch farmer dairy co-operative, Royal Friesland Foods, into a merger with Campina in 2008, will take over from Fonterra's departing CEO Mr. Andrew Ferrier, effective Sept. 26. Mr. Ferrier announced his resignation from Fonterra last March....

NORTHAMPTON, England, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Barclaycard joins forces with The Co-operative Food as it becomes the UK's first major grocery retailer to introduce contactless payment in its stores nationwide. The contactless roll-out will begin with a pilot in 100 Co-operative food stores next year after an agreement was signed with Barclaycard in partnership with Visa. If the pilot is successful, The Co-operative will roll out the terminals to the majority of its food stores in time for...

TORONTO, July 5, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Sino-Forest Corporation ("Sino-Forest") (TSX: TRE), a leading commercial forest plantation operator in China, is pleased to announce that its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Sino-Panel (China) Investments Limited ("Sino-Panel"), has entered into a Co-operative Framework Agreement with the China Development Bank Corporation Guangdong Branch ("CDB"), a financial institution set up by the People's Republic of China State Council in 1994 for the...

HONG KONG, April 12 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Goodman, a leading global provider of industrial and business space, will commence development of a pre- let 467,891 sq ft (43,484 sqm) regional distribution centre (RDC) at Andover Commercial Park (formerly Andover Airfield), for The Co-operative Group on a 20 year lease. Goodman has also transacted the forward funding and acquisition of this development with Legal & General Property (LGP). This announcement follows the receipt of planning...

Effort aims to create a multilateral, co-operative approach in addressing the problem of health care fraud to make a positive contribution to the reduction of fraud-related losses in health care. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA) today announced the signing of a formal Memorandum of Understanding with another like-minded organization -- The Health Insurance Counter Fraud Group UK. Both organizations share the common goal of...