Outsourcing to Asia means frequent contact with your suppliers. One in five Australian businesses have lost out financially because of poor supply chain management. As elements of Australian supply chains are increasingly being ...
The State Council, China's cabinet, has promised policies to boost e-commerce, including through cutting red tape and liberalizing investment rules covering a sector it recognizes as very important to the economy. E-commerce is ...
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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has sued an Illinois-based online sports equipment retailer for dishonest business practices that resulted in consumers losing hundreds of thousands of dollars. ADVERTISEMENT Madigan filed the ...
US president Barrack Obama-led task force has drafted a 40-page report planning to curb black-market fishing and mislabelling of seafood, which costs the US and the world billions of dollars of fishing revenue. The US stands second after ...
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Akzo Nobel N.V. has reported positive volume growth and an improvement in return on sales (ROS) for the full-year 2014. Excluding incidentals, ROS was 7.5 percent (2013: 6.1 percent). Operating income excluding incidentals grew 20 percent ...
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The European Parliament has backed plans to create a new meat labeling regulation in processed foods. The new law, when put into force, will require food producers to mention the country of origin of meat used as an ingredient in ...
According to a report by medical industry experts that insurance costs has been going up due to the rising medical costs and an aging population while insurance funds continue to be saddled by the slowdown in the economy. The government ...
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Scientists at the University of South Florida’s (USF) College of Marine Science have developed a device to detect mislabeled seafood. The handheld sensor uses real-time nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (RT-NASBA) to ...
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SMS Audio, the premium headphone line owned by Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson, has defended Apple’s recent acquisition of Beats, claiming the move ‘validated’ an entire industry. Despite Monster having yesterday ...
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More than 160 technology companies based in the Midwestern region of the United States (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin) will debut their consumer ...
More than 190 technology companies based in the Southern region of the United States (Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, ...
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More than 840 technology companies based in the Western region of the United States (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming) will debut their consumer ...
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More than 325 technology companies based in the Northeastern region of the United States (Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maine, Rhode Island, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont and Pennsylvania) will debut their consumer technology ...
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In a major fraud indictment, Cedar Rapids based halal food brand Midamar has been booked by federal prosecutors for supplying $4.9m worth of beef without following the halal practices promised in its labelling and advertising. Citing the ...
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Some of the biggest US-based retailers say that Alibaba would break American local retailers if Congress can’t prevent tax evasion and fraud. These companies have pointed to Alibaba when it hasn’t secured a place in US market. ...
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