Business Planning
ITT Corporation (NYSE:ITT) announced November 16, 2010 that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of O.I. Corporation, OI, for approximately $29 million. OI is a leading provider of innovative instrumentation for laboratory and enviro
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A SWOT is a proven strategic planning tool, capable of evaluating the direction of the company, new initiatives, projects, specific departments, etc. If you haven't heard of SWOT, it's an acronym for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.
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Driven by the need for greater cost effectiveness and the desire to extract the most value from pricey assets, laboratory managers are converting their unused, excess and replaced equipment into cash.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific announced on November 1, 2010 that it will play a key role in the organization of the 2012 Winter Conference Award in Plasma Spectrochemistry. At the 2012 biennial Winter Conference, the company will present the award to the
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announced on OCtober 14, 2010 its nomination for three prestigious European Outsourcing Awards (EOA). The EOA nominations included two entries for Best Contract Analytical Project fo
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The global gas chromatography market is a mature market, and is dominated by aftermarket and accessories. Despite this, the global market maintained positive momentum in recent years. However, the market slumped when the global economy plunged into r
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For companies marketing to a large number of customers and potential customers, newsletters and blogs offer a way to keep them in touch and inform them of new products and generic descriptions of how these products solved other customers' problems. U
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Come January 1, 2011, the best of Brinkmann Canada will be rebranded as Metrohm Canada. Although this rebranding is a new development, the Brinkmann-Metrohm partnership has actually spanned more than 5 decades; and for the last 5 years Brinkmann has
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Micronic Europe has announced the launch of a new comprehensively featured website (www.micronic.com) designed to offer a wide variety of useful information to organisations involved with safeguarding one of their most valuable assets - their samples
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Limited training budgets pose a challenge for many lab managers. To meet their training needs we need to scrutinize both internal training programs and those offered by consultants and other external suppliers more carefully. Maintaining an effective
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On top of financial cutbacks from the state and federal agencies, many universities face growing public skepticism about the value of funding universities.
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Genevac Ltd, world leader in solvent removal technologies, has announced the launch of a dedicated new web page providing downloads of technical brochures describing the company's market leading range of products.
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