McDonald’s global sees drop in sales McDonald’s Corporation has announced that global comparable sales decreased 0.5 per cent in October 2014, which it said reflected the impact of “business challenges” such as ...
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The Indian retail chain Shoppers Stop has joined forces with the Australian-based international wool textile organisation The Woolmark Company to promote finest quality wool and woollen apparels in India. Scheduled to run till December ...
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A zero-gravity ISSpresso coffee machine from Lavazza will be supplied to astronauts on the International Space Station later this year. Developed by Lavazza and engineering firm Argotec, ISSpresso is a capsule-based espresso system ...
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Fanzz, one of the largest licensed sports apparel and merchandise providers in the Western United States, has chosen Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for retail, by Junction Solutions, a leading provider of vertical market-specific on-premise and ...
Tags: Microsoft Dynamics AX, retail POS, Textile
360pi, one of the leading price intelligence providers for retailers and brands, has join hands with JDA Software, one of the top providers of end-to-end, integrated retail, and supply chain planning and execution solutions, to deliver ...
Tags: Online Retail Pricing Solution, zone-based pricing intelligence, Textile
Novolex, formerly known as Hilex Poly, will acquire Packaging Dynamics to form a new company that will have revenue of $1.9bn and will offer a range of paper and plastic flexible packaging products. The company will operate under the ...
The new Cayenne GTS resounds an outstanding sporting character in its very name. The resonant letters GTS go back to the famous 904 Carrera GTS of 1963. In 2007, the Cayenne GTS became the first Porsche of the modern era to revive the ...
For third-quarter 2014, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €45.6m, down just 1.3% on €46.2m both last quarter and a year ago. The utilization rates of most tier-one LED chip makers ...
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released its 16th annual container stevedoring monitoring report. “Increased competition is delivering improvements in Australian stevedoring, which build on significant gains ...
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Sales of BASF Group grew by 3% compared with the previous third quarter, reaching €18.3 billion. A sharp rise in volumes in the Natural Gas Trading business sector was mainly responsible for this growth. Income from operations (EBIT) ...
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The bio-based materials and chemicals industry is poised to attract nearly $1 billion in investment this year, led notably by later-stage funding rounds, according to Lux Research. The estimated $974 million investment represents a 28 ...
Steel Dynamics, Inc. announced Monday third quarter 2014 net sales of $2.3 billion and net income of $91 million, or $0.38 per diluted share, which includes the negative impact of approximately $0.09 per diluted share related to acquisition ...
Coats, one of the leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts companies, has announced the opening of a state-of-the-art zips factory in Chittagong, on the eve of completing 25 years of operations in Bangladesh. The new zips ...
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Researchers at the Gear Research Center (FZG) of Technische Universitt München (TUM) in Germany have developed torque vectoring transmission that can be used in electric vehicles. The light-weight torque vectoring transmission is ...
Honda has released the 2015 CR-Z, a hybrid coup with enhanced performance and driving dynamics. The car features 1.5-liter i-VTEC engine along with Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) electric motor, that provides 6-speed manual transmission ...
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