There were ten out of twelve months of increasing demand for design services in 2014, and the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) points to a healthy outlook for the nonresidential construction industry. As a leading economic indicator of ...
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Nearly 15 years ago a number of industry players—manufacturers, distributors, retailers, contractors, software providers and others—got together and decided to start the process of bringing the industry’s technology into ...
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Apparel brand Van Heusen plans to expand its exclusive brand outlet (EBO) count by 50 this year, which will take the store numbers to 300, a senior official of the company said. Vinay Bhopatkar, COO of Van Heusen told reporters, “We ...
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Headlining the list of new products is Number Linx, a decagon-based puzzle and memory game. NumbersAlive will be showcasing a new line of educational products at US Toy Fair next month. Headlining the list of new products is Number ...
Tags: Educational Products, stars, dice, sign language, Toys
Bosch Packaging Technology has expanded its portfolio for the serialisation of pharmaceutical packaging to help drug manufacturers comply with potential legislation changes about to be introduced by governments round the globe in the fight ...
Video features products spanning Bandai’s range of Big Hero 6 products, the world’s first ever voice controlled drone, Spin Master’s Meccanoid and bike/scooter/skateboard hybrid, Sbyke. The ToyTesters.tv team has created ...
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Johnson & Johnson’s fourth-quarter medical device sales fell by 4.7%, to $6.6 billion, with the biggest drop (7.7%) in the U.S., the company announced this week. Total fourth-quarter sales were down 0.6% year-over-year, to $18.3 ...
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Copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar panel developer Siva Power of San Jose, CA, USA has received an award from the US Department of Energy (DOE) SunShot Initiative recognizing its innovative technology and processes that, it is ...
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The 2015 AHR Expo, set to take place in Chicago on January 26-28, will be the largest AHR Expo ever held. No other event in the HVACR universe generates these types of numbers: There will be more than 60,000 HVACR professionals ...
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Although it’s been a quiet topic since jumping to Hawaii, the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) is still taking a toll on hog markets. The hog market yo-yo’ed throughout 2014, and we should expect that to continue into 2015 ...
Tags: hogs, pork, Agriculture
Princeton Optronics Inc of Mercerville, NJ, USA, which manufactures high-power single- and multi-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) and VCSEL arrays, says it is working with Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects ...
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The number of Americans who favor football over baseball narrowed in 2014, according to research released by The Harris Poll. Pro football is the top pick among 32 percent of sports fans, while baseball only garners "favorite" status ...
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Colorado Ski Country USA (CSCUSA) reported early season skier visits at its 21 member resorts were approximately one percent off last year’s strong pace. The report covers visits between Opening Day (Oct. 17, 2014) through Dec. 31, ...
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EPA Region 7 released new data today that shows air quality around the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site in Bridgeton, Mo., is consistent with what is found elsewhere in the greater St. Louis metropolitan area, and in other major Midwest ...
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The University of Michigan preliminary consumer sentiment index for January rose to an 11-year high of 98.2, helped by a strengthening job market and lower fuel costs. The preliminary reading was the highest since January 2004, and up ...
Tags: job market, fuel costs, Sporting Goods