A study of 500 marketing and packaging professionals found that 49 per cent of those polled believed the industry relied heavily on gender targeting packaging. The toy industry is one of the largest sectors to rely on gender specific ...
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Two members of the Furniture Industry Sustainability Programme (FISP) have been selected as winner and runner up of the prestigious Sustainability Award for the furniture industry. Premiere Furniture has been announced as the winner of ...
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Marks and Spencer Group plc quarter 4 2013/14 trading statement 13 weeks to 29 March 2014. Highlights: -Group sales +1.9% -UK: total sales +1.5%, like-for-like –0.2% -Food: total sales +2.5%, like-for-like +0.1% -GM: ...
Tags: Marks&Spencer, Clothing
Nampak Plastics, the UK’s leading producer of plastic milk bottles based in Newport Pagnell, has announced that sales of its multi-award-winning Infini bottle have reached the 500 million mark. Since its launch in 2012, sales of the ...
Participating in domestic and international fairs help Turkish textile and clothing enterprises expand their clientele and explore newer markets, said Uludag Textile Exporters Association (UTIB) chairman Ibrahim Burkay during the ...
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In another first for South African retail, Woolworths is inviting South Africans – women and men – to become part of a national sizing survey. Themed ‘find your perfect fit’, the aim of this survey is to ensure that ...
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Vance Pflanz Related Brandsource BrandSource Leveraging Apple's iBeacon Platform Brandsource Lawrence Revitalized Buying Groups Brandsource BrandSource's Lawrence To Step Down Next Year Brandsource BrandSource Begins Spring Summit ...
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The show, which took place at Birmingham's NEC, 26 & 27 February 2014, was co-located with six other events: Ecopack, Contract Pack, Packtech, Print Innovations, Labelling Innovations, and Converting. It included packaging buyers from ...
The range was developed in collaboration with Marks and Spencer, and will be sold exclusively in M&S stores and online. Featuring 13 products, the range is aimed at women with colour-treated hair and includes both shampoo and conditioner, ...
UK-based renowned fashion and retail industry consultant Mary Portas’ lingerie line Kinky Knickers is expected to go back into production as the manufacturing firm producing the line Headen & Quarmby has been bought out of ...
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Standard Apparel is proud to announce the addition to its showroom of heritage denim brand Lee 101 USA, and UK based luxury slipper and accessory brand Ruby + Ed. Standard Apparel will be the Canadian sales representatives for the ...
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He's raised hogs in Hancock County for 40 years in a family farming business and he's now the new president of the Iowa Pork Producers Association. Jamie Schmidt from Garner accepted the gavel from 2013 IPPA President Greg Lear of Spencer ...
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Belk announced that it will invest$6.1 million to expand and remodel its fashion flagship store at Columbiana Centre in Columbia,S.C. The current store's men's apparel and shoe departments will be relocated to a completely renovated ...
Tags: Flagship, Apparel, Men's Apparel
GNG Group Yorkshire plc has appointed Simon Williams as business development manager for its Mattress Division. Briefed with generating further growth of mattress sales across the group, Simon joins with a track record in the bed ...
Tags: growth plans, track record
Bakkavor, a UK-based chilled prepared foods manufacturer, has sold its Spring Valley Foods business in South Africa to In2food Group for an undisclosed sum. Established in 1995, Spring Valley Foods supplies fresh prepared fruit to Marks ...