After four years on south Bristol's Wells Road, the traditional toy retailer will close its store due to the economic climate. Wells independent toy retailer Jack and Jill Toy Shop has announced its plans to close its high street store ...
Tags: economic climate, toy retailer, Toys
Sportsman's Warehouse Holdings, Inc. completed the refinancing of its existing $235 million senior secured term loans at a lower interest rate and has increased the borrowing capacity under the terms of its revolving credit facility. These ...
Tags: Warehouse, Sporting Goods
Ohio State University and University of Illinois at Chicago have developed deep ultraviolet (DUV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on III-nitride semiconductor nanowires [Thomas F Kent et al, Nanotechnology, vol25, p455201, 2014]. The ...
Northern Ireland is planning to introduce Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for alcohol, in order to reduce the harmful effects caused by alcohol consumption. The move is based on a research conducted by the University of Sheffield, and ...
Tags: Alcohol, harmful effects, Agriculture
Jameson has collaborated with Franciscan Wells Brewery to create this new concept that brings a new level of craft, collaboration and engagement into the Jameson portfolio. In addition to pack design, the project consists of creative ...
Tags: distiller, beer barrel, Packaging
Researchers based in China have found “remarkably reduced efficiency droop” from staircase (SC) thin indium gallium nitride (InGaN) quantum barrier (QB) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Kun Zhou et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol105, ...
Tags: High Current, remarkably reduced efficiency droop, Electrical
Posted in Orthopedics by Nancy Crotti on November 18, 2014 Zimmer Holdings Inc. (ZMH) has agreed to extend the European Commission’s review of its pending $13.4-billion merger with Biomet, Inc. “by a limited number of ...
This week saw sales at John Lewis of £108.8m, breaking the £100m barrier for the first time this year and matching the retailer's 2013 record for the earliest week to have reached this milestone. Lighting had its best-ever sales ...
Tags: John Lewis, pre-Christmas
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Mitsubishi Chemical Corp have reported indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with thicker active regions enabled by growing the crystal on the semi-polar (30-3-1) plane ...
US media reported that Apple sold 10 million iPhones in the opening week, breaking its previous record. Apple is now the second most profitable company by selling highly sophisticated products with high profits. The Industrial and ...
Tags: Most Profitable Company, ICBC
Wayfair, one of the world’s largest online destinations for home furnishings and decor, today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 11,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of $29.00 per ...
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Xi’an Jiaotong University and Shaanxi Supernova Lighting Technology Co., Ltd., of China have used silver nanorods to engineer gallium vacancy defects in gallium nitride (GaN) to create color tunable light emitting diodes [Yaping Huang ...
Tags: GaN, LEDs, LED heterostructure
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its cleanup plan to address contaminated groundwater and soil at the Mattiace Petrochemical Co., Inc. Superfund site in Glen Cove, New York. The groundwater and soil are contaminated ...
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China's environmental degradation has become a growing source of public consternation and a potential political liability. Premier Li Keqiang declared a "war on pollution" in March 2014, vowing to reduce emissions from power generation and ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Shale
Investment firm Larsen MacColl Partners has acquired packaging solution providers S Walter Packaging for an undisclosed amount. S Walter works on designing, sourcing and delivering coordinated packaging solutions to branded consumer ...