Americans live sicker and die younger than people in other wealthy countries — and the gap is getting worse over time, a new report shows. Men in the USA have shorter lives than men in 16 developed nations. American women also fall ...
There was a time when just hanging an "open" sign on your store meant you would be successful. Thanks in part to the recession, as well as whole slew of things—from changing demographics to technological advances to increased ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Empresas Polar, a leading Venezuelan food and beverage manufacturer, has broken new ground with the commercial launch of the first ambient stored yogurt in Venezuela. The non-refrigerated pourable yogurt, called MiGurt, is packaged in an ...
Tags: Pet Packaging, Packaging, Printing
Greif, Inc., a global industrial packaging products and services company, today announced the company will work with Habitat for Humanity International to distribute 100,000 PackH2O collapsible water backpacks in eight developing countries ...
Tags: Transportable Drinking Water Packaging, Packaging, Printing
ACT Research president Kenneth Vieth may have summed up the US economic forecast best at ATA's All Eyes on the Economy session when he said "We came through the Great Recession and we are now in the Great Okay." Vieth was referring to ...
Tags: Transportation, trucking
Today, Ericsson released the first edition of its Networked Society MENA City Index at the Networked Society Forum in Dubai, UAE. The report analyzes the levels of ICT-driven benefits created in 11 of the Middle East and North Africa ...
Tags: Ericsson, Consumer Electronics
The Transportation Maintenance and Technology Association (TMTA) recently teed off for City Kidz, a Christian organization that works to inspire low-income urban children. Steve Granville, Fred Pedler, Bob Dawson and Paul Crossman, from ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
Representatives of CITGO Petroleum Corporation were joined by hundreds of Bronx residents today to celebrate the 2013 edition of the CITGO-Venezuela Energy Efficient Lighting Program (EELP) at the Bronx Spanish Evangelical Church in the ...
"Be innovative, committed and collaborative to help make the world a better place." This is one of the missions of Celanese, a global technology and specialty materials company. This mission is driving the announcement of the Celanese ...
The Greens Party has launched a $85m policy aimed at helping farmers sell directly to end customers and small, local processors. “With one of the most concentrated food retail sectors in the world dominated by the supermarket ...
Tags: Food Supply Chain, Greens
China has built glittering metropolises in the span of roughly three decades of reform and opening. But in an equal span of time, shiny urban centers risk losing their shining façades or even descending into slums thanks to poor ...
Tags: City Centers, toxic combination
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced it will once again join Enterprise Community Partners (Enterprise) and the Institute for Professional and Executive Development (IPED), an affiliate of Nixon Peabody LLP, to co-host the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Abbyson Living’s Yavar Rafieha, second from left, and Jason Pires, right, of MVC Agency and an Abbyson board member, join representatives of the American Red Cross at a Red Cross award event in April. Red Cross officials thanked the ...
High unemployment and the continued slowdown in economic growth in the Southern European crisis countries in particular is still hampering economic development in the European Union (EU). While the countries moving towards recovery are ...
Tags: GFK Consumer Climate, unemployment
Lighting Science Group Corporation® announced that in honor of Earth Day 2013, it has partnered with Rebuilding Together®, a national non-profit charity, to support the organization's rebuilding of homes that were affected by ...