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Walmart Hourly Associates Earn More Than $200 Million in Cash Bonuses
Sep 28, 2016Bentonville, Ark., (Sept. 21, 2016) – As part of Walmart’s continued focus on improving and enhancing the store experience for customers, the company recently awarded more than $200 million in second quarter cash bonuses to more ...
Tags: Walmart, cash bonuses, associates
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Ind-Ra Has Maintained an Overall Stable Outlook for The Cotton Textile Sector for Fy16
Jul 10, 2015Credit rating agency India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) has maintained an overall stable outlook for the cotton textile sector for FY16. This is led by stable spinning margins in the cotton yarn segment, range-bound cotton prices and ...
Tags: textile manufacture, garment manufacture, cotton textile
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A Strengthening Job Market and Lower Fuel Costs Helped to Enhance Us Consumer Sentiment
Jan 21, 2015The University of Michigan preliminary consumer sentiment index for January rose to an 11-year high of 98.2, helped by a strengthening job market and lower fuel costs. The preliminary reading was the highest since January 2004, and up ...
Tags: job market, fuel costs, Sporting Goods
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A New Wage Structure Will Rise The Cost of Garment Factory Owners
Jan 5, 2015Garment factory owners’ cost in Cambodia is expected to rise by nearly 20 per cent, as a new wage structure came into effect from 1 January. The new structure raises the minimum wage to US$ 128 per month from the earlier $100 per ...
Tags: transportation, seniority, Apparel
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Clean Clothes Campaign Released a New Report
Jun 12, 2014Clean Clothes Campaign has released a new report that uncovers the truth behind high-end fashion chains and the Eastern European and Turkish garment workers that make their clothes. "Stitched Up – Poverty wages for garment workers in ...
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Singapore's Gross Domestic Product Grew 5.1% on The Year in The First Quarter of 2014
Apr 15, 2014Singapore's gross domestic product grew 5.1% on the year in the first quarter of 2014, according to preliminary estimates released Monday by the Ministry of Trade and Industry. On a quarter-on-quarter, seasonally adjusted annualized ...
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H&M Publishes Its Twelfth Conscious Actions Sustainability Report
Apr 11, 2014H&M publishes its twelfth Conscious Actions Sustainability Report. Some of the highlights during 2013 are the launch of H&M´s roadmap for fair living wages, the first closed loop collection made with recycled material from collected ...
Tags: H&M, recycled material, collected garments
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Robots Is Still Firmly in The Hands of Foreign Enterprises
Jan 22, 2014China is aiming high on the industrial ladder. Getting there requires advanced equipment such as robots that is still firmly in the hands of foreign enterprises. Industrial robots are used to do things like bolt panels on cars or ...
Tags: Chinese Robotics, Foreign Firms
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UPS Freight Employees Approved a Five-Year Agreement
Jan 14, 2014UPS Freight employees in the Teamsters union approved a five-year agreement that gives workers a total $2.50 per hour wage boost that the union said makes them the best-paid drivers in the less-than-truckload industry. The tentative ...
Tags: UPS, UPS Freight, Transportation
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Sporting Good Brands to Help The Government Improve Its Annual Minimum Wage Review Process
Jan 10, 2014Executives from Columbia Sportswear, Adidas Group and Puma SE condemned the Cambodian government's use of deadly force against protesting garment workers and urged the nation's factory owners and trade unions to work together to help the ...
Tags: Columbia Sportswear, Adidas Group, Puma SE, Cambodian, garment workers
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The Exports of Garment and Footwear From Cambodia Has Fetched US$ 5.07 Billion
Dec 30, 2013The exports of garment and footwear from the Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia has fetched US$ 5.07 billion by November this year, showing a year-on-year increase of 22 percent, the data from the Ministry of Commerce showed, The Phnom Penh ...
Tags: Garment Exports, Apparel
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Lectra Announced The Appointment of Charlie XU as Vice President of Sales for China
Sep 18, 2013Lectra, the world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials—textiles, leather, industrial fabrics, and composite materials—is pleased to announce the appointment of Charlie Xu as vice ...
Tags: Textile, soft materials
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Shell's Hopes on The US Gulf Coast Would Benefit From Much-improved Process Efficiencies
Jul 3, 2013Shell's hopes for a new gas-to-liquids mega project on the US Gulf Coast would benefit from much-improved process efficiencies, but any resulting cost savings could be limited by the need to build most of the plant outside the US, Shell ...
Tags: gas-to-liquids mega, Chemicals
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CCC Welcomes The European Parliament Resolution for Bangla Safety Accord
May 31, 2013The Clean Clothes Campaign welcomes the European Parliament resolution of 20 May 2013 on health and safety in the Bangladesh garment industry, which sets out the Parliament’s expectations of multinational textile retailers to ...
Tags: CCC Hails European, Safety Accord
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The Following Column by Reed Langton Is Part of Modern's Other Voices Column
May 24, 2013Editor’s Note: The following column by Reed Langton, senior application engineer, Bastian Solutions, is part of Modern’s Other Voices column. The series features ideas, opinions and insights from end users, analysts, systems ...
Tags: Automation, Machinery