GE Capital, Corporate Finance today announced it is providing auction house Sotheby’s (NYSE: BID) with $850 million in senior credit facilities. The new facilities include a $250 million credit line increase and will be used for general working capital and to support the company’s business strategy. GE Capital Markets served as joint lead arranger and [...]

Alstom Grid has won three major High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) contracts with a total value of €800 million (approximately half of this amount was booked in Q1 of the current fiscal year, the other half will be booked in Q2). The HVDC projects will build energy highways for bulk power transmission in India, bring [...]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service today announced funding for seven international projects through the 2014 Food for Progress Program. In total, more than 1.6 million people will directly benefit from the program this year.
The Food for Progress Program is an important tool in the effort to support sustainable agricultural production in [...]

Washington, D.C. – Exports of United States hide, skin and leather products have continued the record-setting pace from 2013, marking one of the most successful periods the industry has seen to date. Through June 2014, the industry has exported more than $1.43 billion worth of U.S. cattle hides, pig skins, and semi-processed wet blue leather [...]

London, UK and San Jose, Calif. – August 12, 2014 – Push Technology, a leading provider of data distribution solutions enabling scalable and efficient Web and mobile applications, today announced that it has expanded its presence in the U.S. with a new West Coast office, backed by more than $5 million in Series A funding [...]

The 22 new peers appointed yesterday (8 August) have donated nearly £7 million to political parties, says the Electoral Reform Society (ERS)
The vast majority of the £6,912,841 comes from one donor, Michael Farmer. But another five of the new peers are also party donors or closely associated with party donors. And 16 of the 22 [...]

Today at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, U.S. and African officials announced that more than $10 billion will be realized through responsible private investments as part of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, which President Obama launched at the 2012 G8 Summit at Camp David. These new investments are expected to create about 650,000 [...]

Albany, New York, USA., August 1, 2014 – (PressReleasePoint) -According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research “Breast Pumps Market (Manual, Battery-powered and Electric Pumps) – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2012 – 2018,” in 2011, the global breast pumps market was valued at USD 0.62 billion and [...]

Albany, New York, USA., July 28, 2014 – (PressReleasePoint) – According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research “Nanomedicine Market (Neurology, Cardiovascular, Anti-inflammatory, Anti-infective, and Oncology Applications) – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share,Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 – 2019,”the market for nanomedicine was valued at USD 78.54 billion in 2012 and is [...]

ISLAMABAD – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of US$6.7 million from the Government of Canada for nutrition, school feeding and relief activities in Pakistan.
The contribution will enable WFP to run its school feeding programme without a break in food supplies until December 2014, supporting more than 200,000 students in [...]