WASHINGTON—Made:In America,a nonprofit dedicated to fostering a business climate that supports U.S.manufacturing,has honored some well-known furniture companies with its annual manufacturing awards. High end case goods and ...
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Turnover of the Swiss plastics industry declined by 1.8% to CHF 15.5bn (€12.9bn) in 2011, alongside a 1.6% reduction in the number of employees in the industry to 34,530, it was announced on 28 June by the industry’s trade ...
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CEMAC: Business Climate Index Declined in the Second Quarter National Bureau of Statistics of China 2012-07-16 15:45:49 China Economic Monitoring and Analysis Center (CEMAC): National Business Climate Survey results showed that the ...
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CEMAC: Entrepreneur Confidence Index Decreased in Second Quarter National Bureau of Statistics of China 2012-07-16 15:44:35 China Economic Monitoring and Analysis Center (CEMAC): The entrepreneur confidence index (ECI) reached 121.2 in the ...
A New York-based major shareholder in OfficeMax has urged the company to sell-off its Australian and New Zealand divisions so that it can return more cash to investors. In a letter to OfficeMax CEO Ravi Saligram, Neuberger Berman managing ...
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The number of chemical and plastics companies in western Europe that are positive about the business situation this summer has dropped to 36.7%, compared to 41.7% in the Spring, according to a new report from Ceresana. In its report, ...
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Caterpillar Inc. Announced on Feb. 17 it has selected land near Athens, Georgia, as the location for a new facility that will build small track- type tractors and mini hydraulic excavators. The state-of-the-art, one-million-square-foot- ...
German business confidence jumped more than economists forecast in January to a five-month high, signaling Europe’s largest economy may avoid a recession. The Ifo institute’s business climate index, based on a survey of 7, 000 ...
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Illinois is trying to persuade Caterpillar Inc. (CAT), the world’s largest construction and mining- equipment maker, that its home state is the best location to build a factory that will employ more than 1, 000 people. “We have ...