Luxury French house Hermès and Japanese architect Shigeru Ban have collaborated once again. For the 2012 milan design week the duo unveiled "Module H" aluminum panels that sculpt internal spaces, may serve as room divider or screened ...
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Faerch Plast has launched the new MAPET II mono packaging, produced from MONO amorphous polyethylene terephthalate or MAPET, which offers better sealability compared to its predecessor MAPET I. Developed primarily for manufacturing trays ...
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Jimmy Dean, a breakfast sausage brand of The Hillshire Brands has announced the launch of a new packaging look for its convenience breakfast products line with new graphics, product images and a contemporized brand logo. The revamp gives ...
Chanel has purchased cashmere knitwear manufacturer Barrie Knitwear of Scottish Borders-based. Barrie have produced cashmere knits for Chanel for more than 25 years. Following Italian shoemaker Roveda, Barrie Knitwear is the second foreign ...
Dry cement may look like a hodgepodge of soot and gravel when it pours out of the bag, but each package is the result of a carefully calculated process. With more than a dozen possible components – which can differ based on the ...
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Discovered in the Kimberley diamond mines in South Africa in 1877, Tiffany's iconic yellow diamond mark its 175th anniversary. On this important occasion, Tiffany & Co. has unveiled a new platinum and diamond setting for the treasure, known ...
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Shoes as a source of first impressions. Ratings of shoes correlate with shoe owners’ personal characteristics Surprisingly minimal appearance cues lead perceivers to accurately judge others’ personality, status, or ...
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UK-based Pro2Pac, the processing and packaging exhibition dedicated entirely to the food and drink sector, is set to make its return from 17-20 March 2013 with its biggest event. More than 130 companies will attend Pro2Pac 2013 to exhibit ...
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In 2010, luxury mobile phone maker Mobiado created a concept phone called the CPT001 crafted from one piece of solid marble. Two and half years later, the Grand Touch Executive is a realization of that concept as the first phone to use a ...
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Watches of Switzerland has become the official time partner of Glorious Goodwood race, the highlight of the summer sporting and social calendar. Five days of racing culminate on Saturday 4 August with the traditional cavalry charge, now ...
Strong revenues from Jeronimo Martins' Polish discount retail chain Biedronka helped boost group sales in the first nine months of the year. The Portuguese retailer recorded an 8.7% increase in sales to EUR7.95bn (US$10.3bn) in the period ...
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A growing middle class economy, high consumption rates, a large, urban population, and reduced political and financial risk has catapulted Brazil to first place of the 2012 A.T. Kearney Global Retail Development Index. Brazil tops A.T. ...
How do you collect data from stars thousands of light years away while positioning a 300-ton telescope to within a fraction of a human hair? You use a high-tech spectrometer called MOSFIRE, rotating on a Kaydon bearing. With MOSFIRE, ...
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PinguinLutosa COO Herwig Dejonghe has admitted he did not see why the company had to sell potato business Lutosa to McCain Foods - but has expressed confidence about the European food group's future. The Belgium-based firm agreed to ...
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Missoni fashion house and the Canadian high-end store Holt Renfrew have partnered to create a limited-edition, worldwide-exclusive plush bear and elephant that will support OrphanAid Africa. To celebrate the launch, Margherita Missoni, ...