Denim jeans marketer, Levi Strauss & Co., will shed 500 jobs, primarily from signing a five-year strategic agreement with Wipro Limited, to outsource certain global business services. This decision comes in the new phase of its global ...
With the release of the August 2014 US International Trade in Goods and Services report by the Department of Commerce’s US Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, US exports of goods and services increased slightly by 0.2 ...
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Tesla Motors has chosen Orange Business Services to provide wireless connectivity for its fleet of Tesla Model S vehicles in France. Model S owners in France will be able to get a connected car experience, with Orange's mobile ...
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Nualight has secured €3m in funding from cleantech investors just a few months after it raised a further €3 million. The Cork-based company has now raised a total of €18 million since it was founded in 2004. Nualight ...
EcoPlanet Bamboo Group has hired three seasoned executives from $8.5 billion timber giant Weyerhaeuser in a key step to ensure its continued success and global expansion, and has named Marvin Ray Risco as the Group president. “Ray ...
Solvay Group announces first quarter results for 2014. Q1 highlights -Group net sales at € 2,552 m, up 1% yoy, with volumes 3%, prices (1)%, forex (4)% and scope 4%. -REBITDA at € 467 m, up 11% yoy driven by volume growth ...
When Yokohama Tire Corp. signed on as a sponsor of the Los Angeles Clippers National Basketball Association team last November, it hoped for a successful season and a lot of publicity. It received both. The Clippers finished the season ...
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Falling hardware sales and the cost of layoffs hit IBM's profit hard in the first quarter, sending it down 21 percent from a year earlier.? Sales also fell, sliding 4 percent from last year's first quarter to US$22.5 billion. The ...
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(Left to right) Michael Markus, WateReuse California president; Erik Johnson, divisional technical manager, Tuftex; Bill Woyshner, divisional environmental health and safety manager, Tuftex; and Paul Klein, WateReuse California past ...
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Northstar Global Business Services, Inc., Symbol (OTCPink: MDIN) today announced that it has plans to begin manufacturing a new advanced formula nutrition bar based on it's highly rated workout supplement, Stem-Intense. The product, aptly ...
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Spy Inc., the eyewear company known for its patent-pending Happy Lens technology, announced a licensing partnership with The J Fin Group to design, manufacture, and sell Spy products including, but not limited to, men's and boy's apparel, ...
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According to a report released by the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics, the ‘Qatar Economic Outlook 2013 – 2014 Update’, Qatar has seen a 6.2% increase in GDP compared to 2012 due partly to an increase in ...
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IBM has announced that that it has been selected by Tata Power Delhi Distribution to conceptualize, design and deliver an advanced Smart Grid solution that will collect and analyze real-time information from smart meters and data from the ...
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Oak Furniture Land has been recognised in the Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 for the third time. The company was ranked 51st in this year's annual league table, following its No 19 placement on the Profit Fast Track in April. The Fast ...
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Fang Ying’s December wish list of Louis Vuitton handbags and Chanel perfume is not only for Christmas. Fang, 33, a secretary working in Shanghai, writes one every month for friends and family traveling abroad. Fang is not alone. ...
Tags: handbags, perfume, Luxury Spending