Even though China's top 10 largest mobile phone exporters were still the international brands such as Apple and Samsung and their original equipment manufacturers, Chinese mobile phone manufacturers-led by TCL, ZTE and Huawei-saw their ...
Tags: cellphone, smartphone
While many domestic cosmetics brands are challenging international giants like L'Oreal and Estee Lauder in China, one brand is slowly encroaching on their home turf. Herborist, a herbal medicine-based cosmetics line owned by Shanghai ...
Tags: Cosmetics, Chinese Cosmetics
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals (HCP) Tracker, the worldwide hardcopy peripherals market experienced a 5.9% decline in the second quarter of 2015. Total shipments fell to 24.1 million units, while the ...
The worldwide smartphone market will grow in the coming years, but new research suggests its meteoric rise over the past several years will start to slow over sluggishness in China. Smartphone shipments will rise 10.4 percent in 2015 to ...
Tags: smartphone, Android, LTE
The report “Electrocoating (E-Coat) Market by Type (Cathodic Epoxy, Cathodic Acrylic, Anodic), by Application (Passenger Cars, Commercial Vehicles, Automotive Parts & Accessories, Heavy Duty Equipment, Appliances, & Others) & By ...
Impressive growth in the demand for cider in the global markets has put it squarely back on the beverage alcohol map, attracting a younger, more affluent consumer, according to the Rabobank Wine Quarterly Q3 report. "In the past decade, ...
The Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand delivered 2.48 (January-May 2014: 2.55; -3.0 percent) million vehicles from January to May this year. 499,500 (May 2014: 531,100; -5.9 percent) vehicles were handed over to customers in May. Commenting ...
According to the International Textile Machinery Federation (ITMF), shipments in most of the textile machinery segments experienced declines in 2014. Deliveries of new short-staple spindles in 2014 fell by 15 per cent as against 2014, ...
Tags: Textile Machinery, Textile
World demand for silicones is forecast to rise 5.7 percent per year to $19.3 billion in 2019. The pace of growth in value terms will be in line with that seen over the 2009-2014 period, largely due to an improved outlook for silicone ...
Tags: Silicones, World Demand
In first-quarter 2015, smartphone sales reached 310 million units, up 7% year-on-year but slowing from the 19% year-on-year growth in Q4/2014 (which reached 346 million units). This was due to year-on-year shrinkage of -14% in China and -5% ...
Tags: Smartphone Sales, 4G Market
The UK is second only to Australia, the research group reveals. The UK boasts the world’s second highest spend-per child on toys and videogames, according to the latest projections from Euromonitor. Second only to Australia, ...
Tags: toys, spend per child, videogames
Australian supermarkets Woolworths and Coles, along with food brands Kellogg’s, Vegemite and Milo are among the top 10 ‘meaningful brands’ for Australians, according to new findings from communications and marketing ...
Tags: Woolworths, Coles, supermarkets
Volvo Cars posted a 2.3 per cent increase in retail sales for the month of April with growth in all major regions. Deliveries of the new Volvo XC90 have just begun and while no customers have yet had the chance to try out the new car, there ...
Tags: Volvo Cars, Volvo XC90
China is likely to cut mobile Internet service charges and increase traffic speeds. The average Internet connection speed in China stood at 3.14 megabytes per second in 2013Q1, which is lower than other countries'. It's expected that ...
After a slowdown in demand in the second half of last year in many parts of Europe, coatings companies in the region have become less confident about the short-term future. However, despite economic forecasts of relatively slow growth in ...