Northwest Tire Factory LLC continues to ramp up new store growth year after year. The $100 million organization added 28 stores last year. This year, Tire Factory has grown 8.2% to date. It added 17 member stores, which increased the ...
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American Tire Distributors Inc. (ATD) recently opened a distribution center in West Palm Beach, Fla. It is the company's 108th D/C in the United States. ATD also has 24 distribution centers in Canada. Based in Huntersville, N.C., ATD is ...
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Välinge has announced that Guangdong Yihua Timber Industry has entered into a global non-exclusive license agreement for the use of Välinge's patented 2G and 5G-C mechanical locking systems for engineered wood floorings. ...
Thirty-One Gifts announce they have chosen TXT MAPLE LAKE to assist in managing their retail processes. Using TXT’s integrated retail planning solution, TXT will manage the whole spectrum of Thirty-One’s forecasting, ...
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According to report, BlueScope Steel announced on Monday that it planned to acquire Arrium’s OneSteel division for sheet and coil procession and distribution businesses. BlueScope would pay AUD23.1 million and it is expected that it ...
When a tote-carrying iBOT (at left) arrives at a pick station, it tilts forward into an ergonomic-friendly position for the human picker.Many executives running high-throughput distribution centers face a growing logistics challenge - the ...
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Vormittag Associates, a leading ERP software provider, will be demonstrating best practices in food distribution and manufacturing applications, in booth #822 at the 2013 IFDA Distribution Solutions Conference, taking place October 14-16 in ...
Egemin recently opened a brand new production and test center for its AGVs. The new center, called the E’gv Factory, has a total capacity that is over three times the capacity of the area it is replacing. With the expansion, Egemin ...
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Hornsby Tire Distributors, an independent regional wholesale tire distributor headquartered in Dothan, Ala., has hired Scott Sulsberger as director of sales and marketing. Sulsberger, a 13-year tire industry veteran, comes to Hornsby Tire ...
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Cargill Food Distribution, a unit of Cargill Meat Solutions, has signed an agreement with Teys Australia to launch Australian beef in American markets. As part of the deal, a wide range of Teys beef products, including Angus beef will be ...
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Central Valley Meat, a California-based slaughterhouse, is recalling about 89,720 pounds of ground beef as it may contain small pieces of plastic, the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said. ...
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Walmart announced two new centers dedicated to filling online orders, including one in Texas and one in Pennsylvania that will be its largest ever. These two new online fulfillment centers are just part of a next-generation fulfillment ...
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Grupo Lala, a Mexican dairy company, is set to raise $863m through an initial public offering (IPO) this month to strengthen its operations and prepay bank loans. The company is offering 444 million shares in an offering that is ...
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NRF expects sales in the months of November and December to marginally increase 3.9 percent to $602.1 billion, over 2012’s actual 3.5 percent holiday season sales growth. The forecast is higher than the 10-year average holiday sales ...
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Revenue for the integrated-motors market is projected to reach $553 million by 2017, up from less than $400 million in 2012. Brushless motors currently lead the way in growth, as shown in the attached figure, with more than 70 percent of ...
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