China's LED chipmakers have been slowing down capacity expansion in 2012 due to market oversupply,but some firms have announced plans to invest in upstream epitaxial crystal processing. Industry sources noted that some installed equipment ...
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Jobs lost despite booming PV shipments in the US 01 Oct 2012 Total PV module shipments in the US grew 43%in 2011 but employment fell by 10%,states a Department of Energy report.US PV module shipments versus price declines. A new report ...
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Asda emphasised today (15 November) that it has been able to win over market share as it reported slightly higher third-quarter sales. The UK arm of Wal-Mart said that sales in the three months to 29 September edged up 0.3%. However, the ...
Tags: Market-Share, Christmas trading, multi-channel strategy
In recent years, Baosteel Co Ltd encourage their employees to advance technological innovation. While encouraging employees to apply patents, it pays more attention to depth and quality. From January to October this year, Baosteel Co Ltd ...
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Flexo Label Advantage Group (Flag), a US-based support organization for independent label converters has announced the appointment of Self Adhering Products as a vendor partner. Flag members will be supplied with linerless self-wound ...
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Vion Food UK is set to close its loss-making Hall's of Broxburn pork processing plant in West Lothian, Scotland, a move which will lead to a loss of 1,700 jobs. Vion Food, which rejected two offers for the site, stated that neither of the ...
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Potential buyers of Vion Food's pork processing plant in UK are being evaluated and talks are ongoing with the owners, according to Scottish government's finance secretary John Swinney. The second meeting of the Hall's of Broxburn ...
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Speaking at the group's annual suppliers' evening last month, Office Brands CEO Gavin Ward said Office Brands is pro-actively investing in new systems to drive the business process, identify better practices to provide growth opportunities, ...
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Tony Prestedge is COO at Nationwide.He joined the building society halfway through a GBP1bn IT transformation which he then took charge of.He talks to Computer Weekly about the progress being made,the benefits already being seen and what ...
Tags: ageing IT systems, up to date, virtualise desktops, data warehouses
Tangerine Confectionery has announced the closure of its factory in Poole,Dorset,with the loss of up to 75 jobs. A spokesman for Tangerine Confectionery told FoodManufacture.co.uk:"It's about maximising efficiency across our production ...
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Umm Al Quwain Cement Industries has said that oversupply in the real estate market is continuing to impact on demand for cement - a trend which it expects to continue throughout the year. "We expect this year to be a tough year for the ...
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Delhaize booked a decline in third-quarter earnings,which were hit by spending on pricing in Belgium and the US. The company announced today(7 November)that operating profit fell by 3%in the three months to the end of September,dropping ...
Tags: currency exchange, margins, tough market, price competitiveness
Electronics giant Philips has reported a surge in demand for its LED lighting products, confirming that it will have to accelerate the "rationalisation" of its conventional lighting technologies. The company yesterday released financial ...
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China’s Haitian International Holdings Ltd. has seen its annual sales more than double in recent years to about US$1 billion, joining the ranks of the world’s biggest injection molding machinery suppliers. Now the firm said ...
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Small LED lighting producers in China are banding together to take on the industry`s multinational giants in the West The invention of incandescent lamps by American inventor Thomas Edison more than a century ago not only marked the ...