In recent years consumers have started to favour premium juices with mixed flavours over historically popular single flavours such as orange and apple. Canadean’s latest annual Soft Drinks Market Insight reports find that global sales ...
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German automotive giant Volkswagen (VW) has for the first time edged past Japanese carmaker Toyota to rise to the numero uno position in automobile sales during the first half of the current year. VW managed to sell 5.04 million units ...
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Columbia Sportswear Company portfolio brand Prana is expanding its European distribution network and has also added a new international sales team. As per a Prana press release, for more than 20 years, Prana apparel has had a strong ...
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Northwest Iowa has become the epicenter of the bird flu story that's developed over the last few weeks, with continued culls ordered as more birds -- now more than 20 million -- become exposed to the virus. Yet, now there's news that the ...
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The Wild West themed family tabletop game has picked up the Game of the Year award in Germany. Esdevium’s popular family game Colt Express has clinched this year’s Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) award. Widely considered ...
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China based Swellfun, the subsidiary of Diageo, has terminated its CNY2.3bn ($370m) Chinese liquor brand industrial park project owing to the recent anti-graft campaign in the country. As cited in Guangzhou's Time Weekly, the project was ...
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The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) announced that André Borschberg, one of the pilots and co-developer of the Solar Impulse solar-powered aircraft, will deliver the keynote address during the Opening Session of the 2015 ...
Wacker Chemie AG has started up a new specialty monomer plant with a yearly capacity of 3,800 metric tons at its Burghausen facility in Germany. "The specialty monomers; vinyl neodecanoate and vinyl laurate are key raw materials in the ...
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Swedish automaker Volvo Cars has chosen South Carolina for its first American plant that would be built at an investment of $500m with an initial annual installed capacity of 100,000 vehicles. Banking on the US' potential for housing ...
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AkzoNobel is helping customers in China to make more efficient use of limited land resources by expanding its portfolio of locally produced agrochemical products. China has a well-documented shortage of arable land, which means ...
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Fast-food giant McDonald's Corp. said it would close about 350 restaurants due to the falling sales in Q1. Sales in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East region dropped 8.3 percent, helping bring overall global sales down 2.3 percent, ...
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FabricLink Network has chosen WoolVisions, the intimate blend of CoolVisions dyeable staple polypropylene with wool as one of its Top 10 Textile Innovations for 2014–2015. The innovative intimate blend of CoolVisions staple ...
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Cherokee Global Brands has entered into a new license agreement with Sports Direct International plc to launch a broad assortment of Tony Hawk signature clothing and accessories online and in Sports Direct stores throughout Europe this ...
ClassOne Technology of Kalispell, MT, USA, which manufactures wet-chemical processing equipment (especially for cost-conscious emerging markets and users of smaller substrates), has delivered a fully automated Solstice S8 electroplating ...
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At its Investor Day in Herzogenaurach, the Adidas Group presented its new strategic business plan called "“Creating the New,” designed to accelerating growth significantly. Revenues are projected to increase at a ...
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