Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes was unchanged in November from a downwardly revised level of 54 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) released today. This ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Asda's 1bn investment in lowering prices over the next five years is not the start of a price war, according to analyst Clive Black at Shore Capital. Asda aims to extend collection points for online shoppers The move might grab ...
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Speirs + Major will transform the underpass of the A13 in London while Leni Schwendinger will lead a ‘NightSeeing LightWalk’ at London’s first ever ‘Light Night’ in Canning Town on Saturday 30 November. The ...
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The National Superintendent of Customs and Tax Administration (SUNAT) of Peru brought into effect measures to combat the undervaluation of imports of textiles and apparel in the country from October 30, 2013. According to a statement ...
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A new poll released today shows a large gap between parents’ perceptions of their children’s weight and expert definitions. According to their parents, 15% of children are a little or very overweight, while national data suggest ...
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Design agency Bulletproof raided the Ritz archive and analysed the present look to gain an insight into product dynamics, visual qualities and the inherent nostalgia surrounding the iconic brand. The team balanced each European market's ...
However, as clients increasingly recognise the power of package design, they also demand greater accountability. Evidently survey research needs to fully and accurately document the value of design. Assessing Current Packaging: Is it Time ...
Advances in materials science and nanotechnology have created several new functionalities in coatings, going beyond their original basic protective and decorative attributes. However, mismatched perceptions among coating developers and ...
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The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) released its top ten list of trucking industry concerns this week. The 2013 survey, which was commissioned by the American Trucking Associations (ATA), had a 41 percent increase in ...
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The naive view of how humans "see" what they look at assumes that what goes into our eyes, which is basically a map of hue and value areas captured from the outside world on our retinas, gets dumped into our brains pretty much as is. ...
Consumers are continually changing the way they view, interact with and discard packaging. Whether you're a manufacturer or a product marketer, you know how important it is to reflect the changing needs of the consumer in your products. ...
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A year ago, rising domestic property prices would most likely have prompted policymakers to reach into the cupboard and pull out a blanket and smother them. Former premier Wen Jiabao, who stepped down in March, oversaw a nearly ...
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Imagine a world in which kids make all the decisions. Imagine a time that these decisions include nearly every purchase in the child's household... Perhaps this seems hypothetical, a potential future unrealized. Yet kids have that ...
As more companies take environmental stewardship into consideration along their supply chains, recyclable and recycled packaging have seen significant growth. According to a recently released infographic from Shurtape, this trend impacts ...
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A panel of intermodal experts attending the 2013 Surface Transportation Summit, held Oct. 16 by Transportation Media with Dan Goodwill & Associates, shed light on where this mode of transport is headed going into 2014. The panel, ...
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