When the ambitious Dhirubhai Ambani started Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) many decades back, one of the first segments targeted at the mainstream audience was textiles. With the launch of 'Vimal,' RIL competed with industry giants in ...
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ShopperTrak estimated that, during the holiday shopping season of November and December 2013, national retail sales increased 2.7 percent although foot traffic decreased 14.6 percent when compared to the same two months last year. The ...
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With a population base of 222 million 0-15-year-old children and 16 million newborns each year, as reported by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, China ranks second as the world’s largest consumer market for babies’ and ...
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Corning Inc (GLW - Analyst Report) recently announced that it has a new manufacturing process in place to mold its shatter-resistant smartphone glass covers. These covers can be molded into three-dimensional shapes, which will allow device ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, 3D Gorilla Glass, Glass
The Toyota Corolla has officially become Australia’s most popular vehicle in 2013, a significant milestone for the Japanese brand that despite dominating the manufacturer’s charts since 2003 has never scored the title of this ...
Tastes, spend and buying habits in the region, suggest that toy firms should be looking to it as a source of potential revenue growth. New research by NPD on Russia suggests that the territory could be the next to see major growth in the ...
Tags: NPD, Russia, toy, Frédérique Tutt, toys global industry analyst
As holiday festivities come to an end with full stomachs and fear of the scale, attention turns to the start of 2014 and another year of making resolutions that typically fail. In a new survey released today, Life Time - The Healthy Way of ...
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The Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) Group announced a framework for prioritising the phase out of hazardous chemical substances used in the apparel and footwear supply chain, completing another milestone of the Joint Roadmap, ...
One of the biggest jobs facing agricultural producers these days is trying to tell their stories to consumers. With only two percent of Americans involved in production agriculture, their voices have a tendency to get lost in all the ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Your voice might help listeners determine your approximate height without seeing you, according to a new study. Researchers had men and women listen to recordings of identical sentences read by men and women of different heights. The ...
Tags: voice, ear witness, subglottal resonance
Justus von Liebig's Law of the Minimum is an agronomic theory that states yield is proportional to the amount of the most limiting nutrient - whichever nutrient it may be. As a soils and crops consultant, it means I am going to tell you to ...
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Forage testing is a tool to determine current nutritive values as well as non-nutritive values in forages that can be used for marketing hay, formulating rations, and determining potential toxicities or other problems (i.e., prussic acid, ...
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Details of the new additions to Volkswagen Australia’s showroom in 2014. Volkswagen Golf wagon (February) The versatile Golf wagon will be first the cab off the rank for Volkswagen in 2014, arriving almost a year after the ...
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For the third consecutive year,Mohawk was honored as the most sustainable flooring manufacturer in the 2013 Southeastern Corporate Sustainability Rankings,the only annual assessment of sustainability practices among the region's ...
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2013 is a rewarding year for FAW Jiefang who sees a sales volume totaling 188,000 units and makes breakthroughs in several segments of the market. Learnt from FAW Jiefang's Annual Business Conference 2014 on December 15, 2013, FAW Jiefang ...
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