Despite tough economic conditions, revenues for the world's 250 largest retailers reached $4.3 trillion in the last fiscal year (June 2012 through June 2013). The average size of the top 250 retailers exceeded $17 billion according to the ...
Tags: Retail Economy, Service
Humans cannot hope to survive life on Mars without plenty of protection from the surface radiation, freezing night temperatures and dust storms on the red planet. So they could be excused for marveling at humble Antarctic lichen that has ...
Tags: Lichen on Mars, Lichen
BBC TV's Fake Britain programme - highlighting the illegal and unsafe mattresses on sale through major high street retailers - has catapulted the National Bed Federation's (NBF) new Code of Practice and Mark of Approval into the limelight. ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
US archaeologists have uncovered the tomb in southern Egypt of a previously unknown pharaoh who ruled 3,700 years ago, antiquities officials said on Wednesday. The discovery by a team from the University of Pennsylvania provides new ...
Rodex Fasteners Corp., one of the major stainless steel fasteners manufacturers in Taiwan said its combined sales revenue in December of 2013 was NT$284 million, soared by 33.3% from a month ago, 79.3% higher than the same time of last year ...
Tags: Rodex Fasteners, stainless steel fasteners, sales revenue
In this part 2 of a two-part series, a K-State feedlot specialist provides a look into how environmental factors, including heat stress, coupled with the use of beta-agonists potentially affects cattle feed intake. Growing cattle that are ...
Elizabeth Arden dispenser ensures a continuous product flow Elizabeth Arden selected Airopack as an all-plastic, pressurized dispenser that uses 42 percent less energy and emits 74 percent less CO2 than a typical aerosol can to dispense ...
Tags: packaging, dispenser, innovation, high standard
Researchers say they have pinpointed a preservative found in many popular wet wipes and baby wipes as the cause of allergic skin reactions in some children. Reports of reactions have ranged from disfiguring patches to crusting, swelling, ...
Tags: Baby Wipes, Preservative, Rashes
Parex Resources Inc. ("Parex" or the "Company") (TSX:PXT), a company focused on Colombian oil exploration and production, is pleased to provide an operational update. Tigana & Tigana-Sur (Non-Operated, Block LLA-34, WI 45%): On December ...
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Pair known locally tried to steal a Playmobil Submarine worth £21 An independent toy shop owner in Wells apprehended a pair of shoplifters by catching them in the act and then chasing them down the high street. Kids Stuff owner, ...
Tags: Toys
Today in Australia they call it Kauri, in Asia they call it Dammar, and in South America it does not exist at all unless planted there; but 52 million years ago the giant coniferous evergreen tree known to botanists as Agathis thrived in ...
Tags: Kauri, Dammar, Agathis, coniferous evergreen tree
Hundreds of people in Japan have been sickened?by food contaminated with the pesticide malathion. Reports on the number of victims differ from at least 890 to more than 1,000. The mass poisoning has been traced to?Maruha Nichiro Holdings, ...
Tags: Frozen Foods, Pesticide-Contaminated Frozen Foods, Sick in Japan
Daisy Bicking, a farrier based in Parkesburg, Pa., has been documenting horses' hooves for more than a decade. Over this time she has built a database of around 200,000 hoof images and radiographs-many of which belong to horses suffering ...
Tags: Horses, Rehabilitating Horses
Toray Industries is expected to report a 30% jump in group?operating profit for last quarter, which saw solid performance in textiles and growth in carbon fiber composites. But with other segments missing targets, the Tokyo-based ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
In this part 2 of a two-part series, a K-State feedlot specialist provides a look into how environmental factors, including heat stress, coupled with the use of beta-agonists potentially affects cattle feed intake. Growing cattle that are ...