China will focus on boosting economic growth quality and efficiency in 2015 and stick to the theme of seeking progress while maintaining stability, according to a high-level meeting of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Friday. China ...
Tags: economic growth, CPC
China's non-manufacturing sector activity showed a slight improvement in November, as new export orders and employment added stabilizers to the economy. The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the non-manufacturing sector came in at 53.9 ...
Tags: Service Sector, PMI
Chinese smartphone market growth will slown down after the explosive growth in the past years due to mobile carriers' reducing subsidies and the gets-saturated market. The data shows Chinese smartphone deliveries reached 10.5 million ...
Tags: Smartphone, Xiaomi, mobile carriers
Posted in Contract Manufacturing Services by Qmed Staff on December 3, 2014 Medical device companies are increasingly turning to outsourcing companies with “one-stop shop” strategies, and the result might be a consolidation ...
Tags: healthcare budgets, Medical device, Health
The National Retail Federation’s Cyber Monday Expectations Survey shows fewer Americans planned to shop online on Cyber Monday, likely because they know online retailers are offering bargains much earlier in November than in the past. ...
Shipments of 4G LTE handsets will grow from 204 million units in 2014 to 676 million in 2015, forecasts market analyst firm ABI Research in its report ‘4G Subscribers, Devices, and Networks Market Data’ (part of the firm’s ...
Tags: LTE handsets, Electrical
The ongoing transition from fluorescent to LED lighting technologies amounts to a significant disruption for the lighting industry, potentially changing the methods by which lighting is provided and sold to customers. While conventional ...
Tags: LED Luminaires, Lights
The gluten-free market in the US is estimated to reach sales of $8.8 billion in 2014 — an increase of 63 per cent between 2012 and 2014 — according to market research organisation Mintel. Mintel said that greater awareness of ...
Tags: Gluten-Free Foods, Agriculture
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 ...
Tags: Google, Consumer Electronics
U.S. jewelry and watch sales combined fell 0.6 percent year on year to $5.461 billion in October, according to preliminary estimates by Rapaport News. While the data is subject to several revisions, it currently marks the first monthly drop ...
Sales grew by just 1.5 per cent in the thirteen weeks to November 1, 2004 period from a year ago quarter, at NYSE listed and omni-channel retailer of women's clothing, Chico's FAS. For the third quarter of 2014, Chico’s reported net ...
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Toyota Motor has announced recall of around 57,000 vehicles worldwide, to replace the potentially failed Takata's air bag inflators. Since 2008, over 16 million vehicles have been recalled by several car manufacturers due to problems ...
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Worldwide PC shipments are expected to fall by 2.7% in 2014, an improvement from the previous forecast of negative 3.7%, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. Although third-quarter results were a few points ahead of forecast ...
Tags: PC shipments, tablet
Winners of the longest running national awards program in the supply chain, logistics and transport industry have been announced. The Australian Supply Chain & Logistics Awards, run by the SCLAA, have been serving the industry for over ...
Last year China leapfrogged past Germany to become the world’s largest market for solar equipment, according to industry figures. True, a September report showed the former is also set to push global carbon emissions to a record high ...
Tags: Solar Energy, PV