Credit 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
Health trends, volatile input prices and strong competition have slowed growth in Australia’s snack food sector, according to market research organisation IBISWorld. However, the ‘healthy’ snack foods sector has benefitted ...
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Cotton growers in Burkina Faso would get 225 CFA francs for one kilogram of produce for the 2014-15 season, compared to the previous season’s price of 245 CFA francs per kilogram, the Interprofessional Cotton Association of Burkina ...
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Over the last 20 years, U.S. dairy producers have faced rapidly changing milk prices and input prices, primarily for feeds. The monthly average U.S. all-milk price has been highly volatile since 1990, particularly in more recent years. ...
Tags: dairy producers, Food
Monday, February 17, 2014: As the number of US businesses increases, industry revenue is forecast to rise; however, some mitigating factors will remain. For these reasons, industry research firm IBISWorld has updated a report on the Office ...
Tags: Office Furniture, Furniture
Flat glass prices fell .4 percent from November to December, according to the latest Producer Price Index Report issued Wednesday by the U.S. Labor Department. The dip in prices was hardly good news for the glass industry as it marked the ...
Tags: Flat Glass, Construction Glass
Construction materials prices expanded just 0.1 percent in December and are up 1.3 percent year over year, according to a January 15 Producer Price Index released by the Department of Labor. Nonresidential construction materials prices also ...
The upturn in the eurozone private sector economy gained momentum in December. Although the recovery remained modest and fragile overall, growth of output was nonetheless recorded throughout the second half of 2013. At a three-month high ...
It will come as little surprise to motor carriers that shippers have been the biggest benefactors of deregulation. A new Conference Board of Canada report, comparing a highly regulated environment (taxicabs) to a deregulated one (for-hire ...
Tags: deregulation, motor carriers, trucking industry, productivity gains
Flat glass prices climbed 1.3 percent from October to November, according to the latest Producer Price Index (PPI) report issued by the U.S. Labor Department. It's welcome news for an industry that saw prices fall precipitously during the ...
Tags: Flat Glass, Glass, Construction, Decoration
The traditionally low-cost pasture-based dairying regions, such as Australia, have lost their cost advantage as input prices have risen, and now compete on the global market with a similar cost of production to producers with more intensive ...
Tags: Milk, Agriculture, Food
The third quarter lived up to UK printer expectations according to the results of the latest BPIF Printing Outlook survey. More firms saw a pick up in demand rather than a fall with 31% benefiting from an increase in the volume of orders ...
Tags: Office Supplies
The Synthetic Fiber Manufacturing industry, which supplies fiber made from using petrochemicals to producers of apparel, plastics and other consumer goods, has endured considerable challenges in the five years to 2013. Purchases of ...
Tags: Synthetic Fibre, Textile
The recovery in the eurozone manufacturing sector entered its second month during August. At 51.4, up from a flash reading of 51.3, the seasonally adjusted Markit Eurozone Manufacturing PMI® rose for the fourth successive month to reach ...
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The US Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration has issued a final rule modifying its method of valuing the price of inputs in antidumping duty proceedings involving non-market economy countries. The rule will apply to ...