Bruce Harmon/Trans Pix Congress went home for the year without extending a tax deduction that is credited with helping boost truck sales during choppy economic times. Bonus depreciation, as the provision is known, allowed fleet owners ...
The largest made-in-Chongqing luxury yacht was delivered to its new owner on Dec 18 in Chongqing. The 58-foot yacht cost about 10 million yuan ($ 1.67 million), only half the price of a similar vessel overseas, Chongqing Economic Times ...
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Indian textile industry is confident of achieving good growth and exports to cross US$ 40 billion in the current fiscal, said Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) chairman Prem Malik, during the eighth edition of the textiles ...
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In lean economic times, organizations look for new ways to streamline operations, improve productivity, and gain a competitive edge. Typically, the first thing they might look at is the price of goods, materials, and supplies used. They ...
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In November, The American Trucking Associations (ATA) filed a lawsuit against the New York State Thruway challenging its truck-toll system. The complaint challenges the Thruway’s annual diversion of millions of dollars of toll ...
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AIRMALL USA, the leading airport concessions developer in North America and operator of the AIRMALL at PIT, is making final preparations for the transformation of the airport's Center Core into a new hub for high fashion and accessories for ...
Tags: Fashion Brands, retail brands
Sunday Sept. 29 2013, is a new day for China as it marks the official launch of the much anticipated Shanghai Free Trade Zone. Sunday is also International Coffee Day. Just as UK coffee houses in an earlier age were the places where people ...
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The Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, is planning to come out with a Cotton Distribution Policy to bring stability in the prices of cotton. Under the plan, the Ministry proposes to levy a 10 percent duty on shipments of cotton ...
Independent retailers see rising online sales as a major threat to their business and believe a tax on e-commerce merchants is necessary to level the playing field, according to the Autumn Fair Retail Sentiment Survey 2013. The proportion ...
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The province of Ontario's planned phase-in for the increase in heavy-truck licence fees has been extended by a year, the Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) announced today. First announced in March 2012, the 70 percent increase was ...
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The Ontario cAssociation (OTA) has announced the province of Ontario will extend the phase-in for heavy truck licence fee increases by one year. The OTA says its lobbying helped convince the province to defer the 70% increase on ...
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The textile industry has a bright future in Scotland with traditional crafts such as knitwear well placed to export their high quality brands into new markets across the globe, First Minister Alex Salmond said that he outlined a new focus ...
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Editor's Note: The following column by Randy Teadt, Owner of Premier Handling Solutions is part of Modern's Other Voices column. The series features ideas, opinions and insights from end users, analysts, systems integraters and OEMs. Click ...
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has pledged half a billion dollars for Australia's automotive manufacturing industry in an attempt to give investment certainty to local car makers and shore up their future beyond 2020. Under the 'New Car Plan ...
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Spanish water company Cadagua has selected PX® technology from Energy Recovery Inc. to retrofit its Valdelentisco Desalination Plant. Located in Valdelentisco, Murcia, in southeastern Spain, the plant has a potable and irrigation ...