Publishing its submission to HM Treasury ahead of the Autumn Statement on 3rd December, the British Retail Consortium (BRC), has highlighted the consensus across the business world that the business rates system is in need of fundamental ...
Tags: Retail Consortium, HM Treasury, Furniture
If you're looking for presents for the holiday season, host/ess gifts, or housewarming offerings, why not look to feng shui? Green and affordable, feng shui-inspired gifts bring positive energy into any setting and will enhance your ...
Tags: Feng Shui, Feng Shui Gifts, Construction
As it can be seen from the reports in recent years,balmy stationery will do harm to the physical development of primary and middle school students, it is bad for children's health.We know that a small amount of fragrance additive is allowed ...
Tags: Stationery, Students, Office Supplies
Driven by its core business, European fashion retailer, Bestseller reported a 21 per cent year on year surge in pretax profits for the fiscal year 2013-14. Pretax profits rose 21 per cent from the previous fiscal year to €228.2 ...
Tags: Pretax Profit, Apparel
Google has flogged more Chromebooks to schools than Apple managed with its own iPad sales. New data from IDC has revealed that US schools bagged 715,000 Chromebooks in Q3 this year. Meanwhile Apple flogged a slightly more meagre 702,000 ...
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83 finalists will now be whittled down to the winners in 12 categories, to be announced at the Toy of the Year Awards in February 2015. The Toy Industry Association has revealed the 83 finalists for the 2015 Toy of the Year Awards. ...
Independent retailers across the UK will be hoping to entice Christmas consumers with a shopping challenge over the next month, as the Celebrate an Independent Christmas campaign returns, hoping to boost consumer awareness of local ...
Tags: Christmas, Shopping Challenge, Furniture
Apparel retailer Gap Inc, has promoted two of its senior executives as presidents of two of its brands, Gap and Banana Republic. Jeff Kirwan, who currently serves as president of greater China for Gap Inc, will become global president for ...
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Nike opened its first store dedicated to women. The 6,000-plus square-foot location in the in the Fashion Island lifestyle center in Newport Beach, CA also features an in-store studio for group or personal fitness training sessions the ...
The market for discrete power electronics components – used to convert and manage electricity in devices ranging from mobile phones to pumps and motors – will grow by 77% from $13bn today to $23bn in 2024, according to the ...
New York futures advanced this week, with December gaining 146 points to close at 64.50 cents/lb, while March moved up 114 points to close at 63.02 cents/lb. Persistent spec buying lifted the December contract to a high of 66.04 cents ...
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The American multinational clothing and accessories retailer Gap Inc. is set to open its first-ever Old Navy outlet in Shenzhen, a city located in the south of Southern China’s Guangdong Province, on November 8, 2014. In a bid to ...
Tags: clothing retailer, omni-channel, Apparel
Arla Foods Ingredients has developed a whey protein for creating 'Sports yoghurts' -yoghurt-based sports nutrition products that will appeal to active consumers who prefer not to use traditional gels and shakes. The Nutrilac solution ...
“The one biggest area within the cotton industry which holds the potential for improvement and efficiency is logistics,” said three speakers at the ICAC Plenary Meeting held in Greece. That was the takeaway message delivered ...
Tags: cotton industry, Costs of logistics, Textile
The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT of Aachen, Germany has worked with RWTH Aachen University’s Institute of Physics (IA) to develop an analysis technology that, for the first time it is claimed, allows the structural ...
Tags: LED light, Laser system