The team hopes to raise £7,500 in order to launch its range of Playpress construction sets to boys and girls across the UK. A pair of toy inventor brothers have taken to Kickstarter to help launch a new collection of recyclable ...
Tags: shopping centres, coffee shops, houses, Toys
Garment factory owners’ cost in Cambodia is expected to rise by nearly 20 per cent, as a new wage structure came into effect from 1 January. The new structure raises the minimum wage to US$ 128 per month from the earlier $100 per ...
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China has agreed to cut some of the bureaucracy that delays sales of medical devices and medicines made in the United States, the U.S. commerce secretary announced. Following bilateral trade talks between the two nations, Commerce ...
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To celebrate the centenary, Ardagh formally opened its new factory extension. Since 1914, metal packaging solutions were manufactured at the Sutton‐in‐Ashfield site, originally for the production of printed fancy metal ...
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The analyst presentation that De Beers published this week on behalf of Anglo American was as revealing as the company’s much publicized Diamond Insight Report. Whether this was a once-off publication or not, the presentation was ...
Home furnishing retailer IKEA has announced total sales of £1.4b in the UK for the financial year ending 31st August 2014, an increase of 11.3% on the previous year. Following an ambitious pledge last year by UK country retail ...
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Earlier this month Airsprung Group announced that all of its group companies would be joining the Furniture Industry Research Association, (FIRA). As a result, the companies have updated their websites to pull together in one place the ...
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"The Workshop will allow us to access brand new talent all under one roof" says firm's director. Sambro has become the sixth toy supplier to pledge support to ToyNews' upcoming Toy & Game Inventors Workshop. The firm - which has a ...
Two years ago, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. announced it made a commitment to hire 1,000 United States military veterans, and today the company has surpassed its three-year goal more than a year early, and has pledged to hire an ...
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US-based food manufacturing company Kellogg has required its suppliers such as farms and mills to reveal greenhouse gas emissions and take measures to reduce them. This is part of its ambitious efforts to become a more environmentally ...
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Supermarkets chain in the UK Morrisons has announced the signing of a new pledge under which it will not produce or sell any carbonated product with more than four alcohol units in a single-serve can. According to the retailer, the ...
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Seaborne iron ore prices reversed losses Tuesday, as bullish expectations on Chinese economic performance provided stronger support for the steel raw material. Platts assessed the 62% Fe IODEX $0.75/dmt higher on day at $96/dmt CFR North ...
Printeer has secured $41,000 of $50,000 goal. 3D printers could soon be part of a child's toy box as the first 3D printer for kids has landed on Kickstarter. Called Printeer, the child-friendly printer is designed for use with an iPad ...
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Beijing bureaucrats are all exhausted just by chasing a sputtering economy and trying to keep it moving. Some fine-tuning here, a bit of state spending there – all with the aim of meeting a GDP growth target. But if they want to stop ...
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The Ecover Ocean Bottle, which holds Ecover’s washing-up liquid, is made entirely from recycled plastic, with 10% collected from the sea. The washing-up liquid itself has been developed with a special ‘sea lavender and ...
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