Starting Monday the value of the renminbi will be allowed to fluctuate 2% above or below a daily reference rate set by the People’s Bank of China. Widening the band, which had a 1% range in both directions since April 2012, was a ...
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Tredegar Film Products, a subsidiary of Tredegar Corporation, today announced plans to expand its manufacturing capacity for apertured film for personal care applications at its Pune, India facility. The expansion will serve the growing ...
Tags: hygiene, personal care, Daily Use
Long before the dawn of the pacifier, parents of newborns and toddlers found ways to use surrounding resources to help soothe and distract tots into precious moments of peace. In today's smartphone era, a proliferation of applications, ...
Bitcoin, 3-D printed candy and George Takei, the Star Trek-actor-turned-Facebook-phenomenon, are among the attractions this week at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, where the geek set is slowly filing out to make room for ...
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Uncertainty surrounding total swine herd losses to porcine epidemic diarrhea virus has sent lean hog futures for spring and summer contracts to record-high levels, but it's possible the markets have overreacted, a Purdue Extension ...
Tags: PEDv, Demand for pork, avoid the disease
Pregnant women who drank more than two weekly units of alcohol were twice as likely to give birth to a small or premature baby, researchers in Britain say. Professor Janet Cade of the University of Leeds' School of Science and Food ...
The appointment of Mark Newton-Jones follows the news of former CEO Simon Calver's departure from the firm last month. Baby and parent specialist Mothercare Plc has appointed former Group CEO of Shop Direct Mark Newton-Jones as its ...
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Firm expands European portfolio with environmentally conscious toy line. Bigjigs Toys has expanded its European portfolio, taking over the distribution for Green Toys in the Benelux region. The deal covers Belgium, the Netherlands and ...
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Organic yogurt maker Stonyfield and baby food firm Happy Family have teamed up to launch new yogurt pouches for babies, toddlers and kids. The co-branded collaboration is said to be the first of its kind for both brands. Stonyfield ...
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Plum Organics is voluntarily recalling a limited quantity of two varieties of its World Baby line of pouch products due to intermittent damage to the plastic spouts during manufacturing. There is a possibility that small fragments could ...
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Iceland-based food processing solutions provider Marel has unveiled FleXicut, a new whitefish processing line for bone detection and removal. Unlike the traditional process, the automated equipment has been developed to eliminate the need ...
Latest addition to the popular doll line enjoys feeding and expelling wind afterwards. Zapf Creation has launched its latest addition to the Baby Annabell line, the My First Baby Annabell Let's Play. Featuring a bottle or feeding, the ...
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Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. announced the promotion of Eugene A. Castagna, previously the Company's Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, to the role of Chief Operating Officer. Susan E. Lattmann, formerly the Company's Vice President – ...
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Based out of the New York area, Mondevices Inc. has created the baby sleep monitor that fits in a button, creating the first “smart button” wearable technology. This year the “smart button” has won a prize in Smart ...
Go Gaga Squeeze & Teethe Coco the Monkey was sold exclusively at Target Baby toy firm Infantino has had to recall191,000 Go Gaga Squeeze & Teethe Coco the Monkey teething toys due to them containing a choking hazard. The teething toys ...
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