Canadian seafood company Cooke is set to acquire Australian fish farming giant Tassal Group Limited (ASX: TGR) for $1.1 billion. The Company has entered into a Scheme Implementation Deed (SID) with Cooke Inc. under which Cooke has agreed to acquire 100% of the ordinary shares in Tassal. Should the bid be successful in securing regulatory
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During the second World War, scientists noted that soldiers exposed to nitrogen mustard gas developed interesting hematologic pathology with significantly reduced white blood cell counts. Researchers began to wonder if the toxins could stop the growth of rapidly dividing cancer cells. It wasn’t long before American pharmacologists Alfred Gilman and Louis Goodman experimented with mustard
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If you’d never heard of MyState Bank (ASX: MYS) before you saw their logo on the Tasmania JackJumpers jersey, you’re not alone. But you could soon be one of the many mainlanders turning to the Tassie-based bank which is writing an increasing number of home loans north of the Apple Isle. For the bank which
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Globally, exhausted soils and rising crop prices have driven scientists to discover methods of cultivating food with as few resources as possible and even in the harshest environments. In particular, the Middle East and Dubai have seen a significant boom since the 1960s, from what used to be a small collection of settlements to an
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Fresh from reporting a bumper June quarter result which rounded out their FY22 with a 97% increase in revenue to $32.5 million, digital payments company Novatti Group (ASX: NOV) may have something even bigger brewing having just secured $10.5m in funding by leveraging their assets to issue a bond. While other listed companies tend to
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Going to an American college seems like fun and games in the movies, but the real world is a little bit different. The American dream of a college education costs money, and a lot of it. Tuition fees average over USD $38,000 per year for private colleges, and between USD$10,700 and $27,500 for public colleges…
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