ICTI Care's Mark Robertson outlines how a raft of new legislation, coming into effect today, means toy companies must take a closer look at their supply chain. Modern Day Slavery continues to make the headlines, and for very good reason. ...
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Apple is expanding its original programming horizons beyond music with a new unscripted series about app developers. The production was confirmed by Apple executive Eddy Cue and will apparently tell the story of a number of app developers ...
This Easter, Kmart is teaming up with PEEPS, the marshmallow candy brand, to introduce goodies. Sure, everyone has Facebook friends, but it's time to figure out once and for all who your 'peeps' really are. Thanks to the Kmart 'My PEEPS' ...
Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has today announced that the ‘effects test’ will be introduced into the Australian Competition and Consumer Act. Introducing the test will change Section 46 of the Competition and ...
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The collection will allow kids to create and build their own Shopkins scenes for their figures. The Shopkins range is expanding even further with the latest release of the construction line Kinstructions from Trends UK. The collection ...
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Kono USA – the franchisor that introduced the popular pizza-in-a-cone concept to the United States – announces a partnership with Ghirardelli that will add four exclusive treat cones to its menu. The dessert line, part of the ...
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The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has established Great British Food Unit intended to boost exports and create 5,000 jobs in food and drinks manufacturing sectors. The partnership between the sector ...
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Chipshow LED BillboardIn Russia, a cinema chain has taken advantage of LED billboards in order to advertise the menu of products which are available from its concessions stand. Formula Kino cinemas across the capital of Moscow and ...
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China's outbound M&A volume increased for the sixth consecutive year to a record high of $111.9 billion in 2015, breaching the $100 billion mark for the first time ever, says a recent report from Dealogic, an international information ...
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Chinese home appliance makers are giving dimensions of reality to the "Internet Plus" strategy championed by Premier Li Keqiang. Slowly but surely, they are pressing ahead with the task of integrating Internet technologies with their ...
Alibaba has agreed to buy some 30 percent stake into China's food delivery service Ele.me, valued at 1.3 billion U.S. dollars. The deal is expected to be completed after the Spring Festival in Feburary of next year. After completion, it ...
Shen Hao, former president of 21st Century Media Co. Ltd., was sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday for blackmailing companies by threatening negative coverage. Shen was convicted of extortion and forced transactions, among other ...
New stats are suggesting Chinese acquisitions in the Asia-Pacific region have helped push the value of annual deals past one trillion U.S. dollars for the first time. The same set of data also shows Chinese companies have spent a record ...
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Zoomlion, China's leading construction machinery producer, on Wednesday said it had signed an official agreement to buy a 57 percent stake in Italy's waste-disposal company Ladurner. Zoomlion said it had teamed-up with Mandarin Capital to ...
Microsoft and the China Electronics Technology Group, or CETG, have announced a new joint venture. The new company is provisionally named C&M Information Technologies, and will provide Windows 10 related services to Chinese government ...
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