Industry Views of electrical-electronics - Made-in-China.com

Graphic Packaging to Buy Metro Packaging &Imaging

Apr 6, 2016

US commercial packaging company Graphic Packaging International has signed an agreement to acquire converting assets from Metro Packaging & Imaging. The acquisition is a part of the company's effort to develop the best supply chain in ...

Tags: Graphic Packaging, Acquisition, Metro Packaging&Imaging

Britannia Garment Packaging Unveils ERP System with Iomart Support

Apr 6, 2016

Britannia Garment Packaging has selected iomart to provide hosting for a new global ERP and CRM system for its ordering division. The software sits on a VMware platform in one of the two data centres iomart owns in the Midlands. Neil ...

Tags: Britannia Garment Packaging, ERP, CRM, Ordering division, Iomart support

Gatorade Names Boys Basketball Player of The Year

Apr 6, 2016

The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with USA Today High School Sports, named Jayson Tatum of Chaminade College Preparatory School (St. Louis) as its 2015-16 Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year. "Jayson really deserves ...

Tags: Gatorade, USA Today High School Sports, Jayson Tatum

Former Nike Design Trio Confirm Adidas Employment

Apr 6, 2016

Adidas has officially assigned employment IDs to a trio of former Nike designers who left the swoosh company last year. According to a photo on Marc Dolce’s twitter page (@marcdolce) he, Denis Dekovic and Mark Miner were inducted ...

Tags: Adidas, Nike designers, Employment

U.S Poised to Dislodge China as Most Competitive Manufacturer

Apr 6, 2016

The United States is expected to be the most competitive manufacturing nation, moving China into the number two position by 2020, according to the 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index report from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited ...

Tags: Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index report

Autumn Fair Shortlisted for Best Trade Show

Apr 6, 2016

Autumn Fair, organised by i2i Events Group, has been shortlisted for Best Trade Show in this year’s Exhibition News (EN) awards. Best Trade Show is the most hotly-contested of all EN Awards and this time around is open to any ...

Tags: Autumn Fair, i2i Events Group, Best Trade Show, Exhibition News awards

Consumer Confidence Stalls in March

Apr 6, 2016

GfK’s long-running Consumer Confidence Index remained at zero in March, perhaps signalling Brexit fears. Two of the measures used to calculate it saw decreases this month, with one measure showing an increase and the remaining two ...

Tags: GfK, Joe Staton, Consumer Confidence Stalls

Furmanac Achieves Waste-Prevention Status

Apr 6, 2016

West Midlands-based company Furmanac is now officially a Zero To Landfill furniture manufacturer, having undergone a stringent process including a full audit trail. Purchasing director Harmz Pattar says: “At Furmanac, we are ...

Tags: Furmanac, Zero To Landfill manufacture, Waste-Prevention Status

ACID Sets Conference on 3D Printing

Apr 6, 2016

Anti Copying in Design (ACID), supported by the Alliance for Intellectual Property, is set to deliver a one-day conference on 3D Printing - Opportunities & IP Challenges, at The Furniture Makers’ Hall, London on 14th April. 3D ...

Tags: Anti Copying in Design, ACID, Intellectual Property, 3D printing

Easter Retail Suffers Due to Poor Weather

Apr 6, 2016

Retailers suffered a quiet Easter weekend, with Ipsos Retail Performance reporting a drop in footfall of -2.9% across the UK, in comparison to 2015, when Easter fell a fortnight later. Dr Tim Denison, director of retail intelligence at ...

Tags: Easter weekend, Iposos Performance, Pooe weather

Independent Openings Slow Considerably, Says LDC

Apr 6, 2016

Data released by Local Data Company (LDC) and the British Independent Retailers Association (bira) shows that independents opened the fewest number of shops in Britain’s top 500 town centres since LDC records began in 2009. The number ...

Tags: Local Data Company, LDC, Bira, Independent Shops

Sealy Sponsors Weightlifting Champion

Apr 6, 2016

Bed manufacturer Sealy is to sponsor weightlifting champion Zoe Smith as she trains to qualify for the XXXI Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro this summer. Zoe will be the main star of Sealy's World of Sport campaign, promoting the ...

Tags: Sealy, Bed manufacturers, Weightlifting champion, Zoe Smith

iKBBI Commits to Furniture Makers Charity

Apr 6, 2016

The Institute of Kitchen, Bedroom & Bathroom Installers (iKBBI) has joined The Furniture Makers Company as a corporate member, joining brands including iKBBI installation partners B&Q and John Lewis, as well as sponsor Blum. iKBBI CEO ...

Tags: iKBBI, Bedroom&Bathroom Installers, The Furniture Makers Company

Orora Adds Xsense to Its Cold-Chain Solution

Apr 6, 2016

Monitoring food safety and reducing food waste in the cold chain from farm to retail shelf will recieve a boost in Australia following Orora's new exclusive distributorship agreement with Israel-based BT9 to introduce Xsense, a cold-chain ...

Tags: Orora, Xsense, Israel-based BT9, Nigel Garrard

HP Indigo Launches Breakthrough Pack Ready Lamination System

Apr 6, 2016

Zero cure time is required in a new lamination development unveiled by HP Indigo, enabling flexible packaging converters to benefit from the fast speed to market offered by digital printing, even for retort pouches. HP Indigo Pack ...

Tags: HP, HP Indigo, Flexible packaging converters, Digital printing

Industry Views

Hot Products