Albemarle announces plans to exit phosphorous flame retardants business

BATON ROUGE, La., May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In order to restructure its business portfolio and address underperforming assets, Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB), a leader in the global specialty chemicals ...

Xerox Plans Live Webcast of Annual Shareholder Meeting

Xerox will host a live audio webcast of the company’s annual meeting of shareholders on May 24.

Toshiba plans to double operating profit by 2014-15

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Thursday it aims to more than double its annual operating profit in three years to $5.6 billion, by expanding its social infrastructure business and boosting sales of electronics devices. The electronics conglomerate, whose television sales have been sliding along with those of rivals Sony Corp, Panasonic Corp and Sharp Corp, has been buoyed by ...

EX-MALAYSIA AIRLINES CHIEF ASKS UNIONS TO AVOID RASH DECISIONS

KUALA LUMPUR, May 17 (Bernama) -- Former Malaysia Airlines (MAS) chairmanTan Sri Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman has appealed to MAS''s workers'' unions to refrainfrom making rash decisions over business plans by its management to turn aroundthe ailing national carrier.At the same time, he said it was also imperative that cooperation andsupport from the airline''s 20,000 employees be sought and obtained ...

CytoDyn Announces Plans to Move Forward with Next Stage of Research of CytoFeline™

CytoDyn Inc. , a biotechnology company focused on the development of new therapies for combating infection with immune deficiency virus and other antibody applications, announced today that the Company completed production of a sufficient amount of CytoFeline™, a monoclonal antibody developed by the Company for the treatment of Feline Immunodeficiency Virus , to allow the Company, through its ...