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BELOIT, Wis., July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Sheffield Bio-Science, a leading global pharmaceutical supplier of superior quality cell nutrition and excipient products for the biotech and pharmaceutical markets, has been awarded the distinguished 2010 Lilly Global Supplier Award. The Lilly Global Supplier Award recognizes Sheffield Bio-Sciences' consistent execution of quality and services for Eli Lilly and Company over the years and specifically for delivering above-and-beyond support during the...

NEW YORK, April 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Reverend Horace Sheffield III of the Detroit Association of Black Organizations (DABO) will hold a 9:30 AM press conference tomorrow (Tuesday April 27) at the Sheffield Center, 12048 Grand River at Wyoming. Sheffield will discuss the results of his meeting in New York City today with NBC executives and Dateline correspondent Chris Hansen. Sheffield's New York meeting focuses on the NBC Dateline production, "America Now: City of Heartbreak and...

LORAIN, Ohio, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Sneakers, sleeping bags and cancer education? It must be the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life, an 18- to 24-hour event to celebrate survivorship and raise funds for cancer research, education, advocacy and services. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click: http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/relay-for-life/43644/ Relay For Life will be held at Brookside's Sevits Stadium, 1824 Harris Road, Sheffield Lake, OH...

WARSAW, Ind., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Symmetry Medical Inc. (NYSE: SMA), a leading independent provider of products to the global orthopaedic device industry and other medical markets, announced second quarter 2009 financial results for the period ended July 4, 2009. (in millions, Second Quarter Vs Prior Quarter except share data) 2009 2008 Change 2Q'09 1Q'09 Change Revenue $ 101.0 $ 109.8 -8% $ 101.0 $...

Fourth Quarter 2008 Highlights: -- Revenue of $99.7 million, up 23.6% year-over-year or up 30.9% on a constant currency basis -- Net income of $11.3 million or $0.32 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $5.4 million in fourth quarter 2007 Full Year 2008 Highlights: -- Revenue of $423.4 million, up 45.5% year-over-year or up 46.4% on a constant currency basis -- Net income of $24.0 million or $0.68 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $0.1 million in...

By Anonymous One of Britain's largest brownfields is being lined up for an overhaul the size of Sheffield, focusing on landscape, lakes and woodland. Proposals for the 4,000-home community on 300ha of land in South Yorkshire were submitted to Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council last week. Mining, property and energy company UK Coal aims to transform the former coke works and mine near Catcliffe, an area bigger than Sheffield city centre. The mixed-use project with greenery wrapping...

And today their efforts were rewarded with honours in the annual Yorkshire in Bloom awards.Twenty-two winners - stretching from the tiny hamlet of Mill Bank, to Leeds, and Bridlington - were picked from more than 250 entrants at the annual celebration of all things floral.Individual victors included the likes of Middlethorpe Hall, in York, St Gemma's Hospice, in Moortown, Leeds, and Sheffield's Botanical Gardens.Maurice Baren, chairman of Yorkshire in Bloom, said: "In spite of the dreadful...

By Peter Edwards Martyn Ware, founding member of The Human League and Heaven 17, and Sylvia Anginotti, Sheffield City Council's employment and enterprise cabinet member, unveiled The Electric Village, a digital entrepreneurs' scheme, at Devonshire Street's Forum venue. Organisers believe the project is the first of its kind in the UK.Mr Ware, who has been commissioned by groups as different as the Royal Ballet and Liverpool's City of Culture, was joined by a new generation of electronic...

By Jeni Harvey Two separate "bus rapid transit", or BRT routes, are planned, a "southern" route which would travel along Sheffield Parkway and to Rotherham via Waverley, and a "northern" route which would travel to Rotherham via Meadowhall and underneath the M1 motorway on a new road.The southern route, which is at a further stage of development, could open in 2013 if approval is given by the Department for Transport, which would be paying for the vast majority of the multi- million pound...

By Martyn McLaughlin THE shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize was announced yesterday, favouring young debut authors as opposed to established literary heavyweights. While two first-time novelists garnered sufficient nominations, there was no place for Sir Salman Rushdie, who had been widely tipped to win the prestigious award once again. Also omitted was Netherland by Joseph O'Neill, a post 9/11 narrative of New York and cricket, and Michelle de Kretser's The Lost Dog, both of...