Australian SME are primed and keen to invest overseas but are often restrained by difficulty in accessing finance and professional advice and support, new research from Australia’s export credit agency EFIC has found. Of over 2,000 ...
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), and privately owned Zayo Group LLC of Boulder, ...
The Deal, TheStreet's (TST) institutional business, announced the winners of the sixth annual Most Admired Corporate Dealmaker (MACD) Awards, which recognize the best corporate dealmaking teams at acquisitive, large-cap U.S. companies in ...
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The Toronto Transportation Club this year celebrates its 100th anniversary. Trailcon Leasing’s John Foss is serving as president during this, the club’s milestone year. Editorial director and publisher Lou Smyrlis caught up with ...
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The chairman of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) working group on whole building Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) says he thinks it’s not if the glass industry officially embraces a specific Environmental Product ...
The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) released its top ten list of trucking industry concerns this week. The 2013 survey, which was commissioned by the American Trucking Associations (ATA), had a 41 percent increase in ...
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On Friday, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) made affirmative preliminary injury determinations in the antidumping (AD) investigations of OCTG from India, Korea, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, ...
Tags: OCTG industry, Mineral
Furniture West and the Canadian Home Furnishings Alliance, two of this country's three regional associations of furniture and bedding manufacturers, importers and associate members, are merging effective immediately. The new organization ...
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Senator Kate Lundy, GS1 Australia's CEO Maria Palazzolo, GS1 Australia's manager consumer goods Sean Sloan, Catherine Caruana-McManus from Smarter Planet and cities executive IBM Australia and New Zealand. GS1 Australia and the Australian ...
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Congress will begin its summer break this week without any plan for high-skill immigration. But here's what to watch for when lawmakers return in September. House Republican leaders have been working on an immigration strategy since the ...
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Stocks of small and medium Chinese enterprises gained on Monday amid speculation they would stand to benefit the most from the abolition of a floor on lending rates over the weekend, Bloomberg reported. Analysts said cash starved SMEs can ...
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The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) is seeking feedback from trucking operators on the level of service currently experienced when making heavy vehicle access applications. On 1 September 2013 the responsibility for issuing access ...
Australia's government is to speed up the country's transition to a carbon emissions trading system by dropping its fixed-price carbon tax in 2014, a year earlier than planned, Australian treasurer Chris Bowen said over the weekend. From ...
The US Department of Interior on Thursday extended the comments deadline for a proposed rule governing hydraulic fracturing on public lands by an additional 60 days after industry groups protested the original 30-day comment window. ...
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The unveiling of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's long-awaited growth strategy did little to stem the recent slide in Japanese stocks, with the Nikkei 225 closing down 3.8 per cent yesterday. And analysts warned that the measures announced -- ...
Tags: Abenomics, Growth Strategy