In 2011, the Gross Domestic Product per capita in Luxembourg1, expressed in purchasing power standards2 (PPS), was more than two and a half times the EU27 average. The Netherlands, Ireland, Austria, Sweden, Denmark and Germany were between ...
Tags: GDP, purchasing power, Individual Consumption, welfare situation
1. How to be a great buyer? First of all, check the information of the supplier. Try to know the capital, registry date & expiry date, third-party professional qualification certification of audit, etc. Anything which can prove the ...
Tags: Focus Vision, China Suppliers, tips
Launched in 2011 as a fledgling event with just seventeen exhibitors and three countries represented, the 2012 edition of Fashion SVP, held in September at Olympia, saw the number of exhibitors more than double to thirty-six, the number of ...
Tags: Clothing producers, Buzz Carter, Marks&Spencer, Debenhams, John Lewis
The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Foundation has announced the addition of ten new countries to its international ‘Litter Less' education campaign led by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE).This addition brings the number of ...
Tags: packaging, litter education, Litter Less
Mogilevkhimvolokno, part of the state run Belarus chemical company Belneftekhim, will import paraxylene (PX) from Kazakhstan to manufacture polyester fibre, Belneftekhim has announced. Last month, a joint proposal was signed between ...
Tags: Belarus, paraxylene, polyester fibre
October 5th, 2012 is the Global James Bond Day, marking the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film franchise.Designer Tom Ford dresses Daniel Craig, Johnny Depp, Tom Hanks, Ryan Gosling and Will Smith, among many many others. For Tom ...
Tags: Tom Ford, James Bond, Ian Fleming
Finnish retailer S Group has booked higher half-year profits on the back of improved sales. S Group today (16 August) reported a 2.9% increase in first-half profit to EUR80.6m (US$99.6m). Retail sales were up 5.8% to EUR5.84bn. The ...
Tags: S Group, half year profits, sales, food company
Canadian c-store chain Couche-Tard has booked an increase in first-half profits boosted by acquisitions. In the 24 weeks ended 14 October, earnings amounted to C$278.1m (US$279.7m), a 9.9% increase on the prior year period. The group said ...
Tags: acquisition, Couche Tard
The 18th ‘Fashion & Textile Exhibition 2013’, considered the most important event for the textile industry in the Baltics, will be held in Riga, the capital of the Northern European nation of Latvia, from 19th to 21st April, ...
Tags: textile exhibition, fashion exhibition, textile market, textile industry
Although there are no angels with flowery wings floating yet across the catwalk of CPM Body&Beach(held in Moscow from 26 February to 1 March 2013),there is so much happening on the Russian market.According to a study conducted by the ESPER ...
Tags: CPM Body&Beach, lingerie, bodywear, platform
Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) releases the Interim Report for the nine month of fiscal year (1st Dec 2011 – 31st Aug 2012). Nine Month The H&M Group’s sales including VAT increased by 11 percent in local currencies and in SEK ...
Tags: H&M, VAT, Karl-Johan Persson, personal style
UK-PLASA 2012 saw a successful final chapter of the show's history at Earls Court,with high quality visitor attendance,a hugely popular Professional Development Programme and a vibrant out-of-hours social schedule-a fitting end to an era ...
According to a forecast by the UK Timber Trade Federation, British softwood lumber imports in 2012 are going to be 3.4% lower than last year at 4.81m m³. As such, imports from Sweden will fall by 2% to 2.19m m³. A reduction of 13% ...
Tags: market view, softwood lumber
The number of operators committed to LTE network deployments has increased by 23%to 292 operators in 93 countries in the past year,according to the GSA. To date 96 operators have launched commercial LTE services in 46 countries.This ...
Joint initiative by seven countries and regions aims to stimulate new biophotonics-related R&D projects. The BiophotonicsPlus competition for R&D Funding starts on 1 October. Biophotonics Plus is a joint initiative by seven ...
Tags: Biophotonics Research, Health, Biophotonics Plus, Medicine