Two years after the Rana Plaza tragedy, Bangladesh’s Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) believes that all initiatives undertaken after the industrial disaster should soon meet the expected outcome. The consequences and lessons ...
Tags: Bangladesh, Industrial Safety
FrieslandCampina Cheese is planning to cease operations at its Den Hollander Food cheese packaging plant in Lochem, Netherlands, a move that will impact 139 jobs. This is in line with the company's strategy to cut costs to improve its ...
Dunelm Group plc has issued a trading update for the third quarter of its current financial year, comprising the 13-week period ending 28th March 2015. Total revenue grew by 10.7% to £216.2m. However, total like-for-like growth ...
Tags: Dunelm Group, Home Delivery sales, Furniture
For the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended January 31, 2015, net sales at New York & Company, a specialty apparel chain with 504 retail stores slipped marginally year over year. In a press release, New York & Company said net sales ...
Tags: specialty apparel, apparel
Toyo Ink SC Holdings Co., Ltd. (President Katsumi Kitagawa) announced that, effective January 1, 2015, it has merged two wholly-owned subsidiaries Toyo Ink Chemicals Taiwan Co., Ltd. and Toyo Ink Taiwan Co., Ltd. into a single operating ...
Tags: printing inks, SC Holdings, Taiwan Subsidiaries, pigments
Due to increases in both shipments and conversion efficiency, Taiwanese PV cell makers experienced a record shipment growth in 2014, according to the latest report by EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce. This growth was in spite of being ...
Tags: PV Cell, Sloar Cell
The US International Trade Commission (USITC) has officially voted to uphold the findings that China and Taiwan PV manufacturers have been dumping their products. The tariffs against PV imports will follow the Depart of Commerce's (DOC) ...
BASF’s new European competence center for flooring and waterproofing systems at Oldenburg, Germany, is now fully operational. Manufacture of the Masters Builders Solutions products has been relocated from Schaffhausen, Switzerland. ...
For fiscal first-quarter 2015 (to end-November 2014), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $2.9m, down 15% on $3.4m a year ago but up 29% on $2.3m last quarter, due to both design wins in ...
Tags: LED components, LED chip, Electrical
Agribusiness company Cargill is planning to relocate its meat slicing and packaging operations from its plant in Springfield, Missouri, to its facilities at Nebraska City, Nebraska, and Waco, Texas. The move comes after a thorough ...
The US government has finished reviewing tariff rates imposed in 2012 on PV modules imported from China and decided to reduce the anti-dumping rates to an average of 1.82% and anti-subsidization rates to an average of 15.68%. The total ...
North East-based Mammoth Technologies is celebrating a successful end to 2014 with an office expansion and two new appointments. As one of the fastest growing businesses in the bed industry, Mammoth has relocated to prestigious larger ...
US-based frozen fish and seafood processor High Liner Foods has opened new facility in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The 38,000ft2 facility, which is the company's new headquarters, features advanced communications technology, culinary ...
Tags: frozen fish, seafood, Agriculture
$2.8 million of non-recurring charges drove net loss higher from a year ago quarter at speciality apparel retailer, New York & Company, in the third quarter ended November 1, 2014. New York & Company said GAAP net loss for the third ...
Tags: GAAP, Non-Recurring Charges, Apparel
GW Plastics Supplier in Mexico grow with OEMs. As Mexico's automotive and aerospace industries continue to see rapid growth, suppliers are being encouraged to locate plants near these OEM and Tier 1 facilities to help reduce cost and ...
Tags: Plastics Supplier, Health