In the EU27, household electricity prices rose by 6.6% between the second half of 2011 and the second half of 2012, after an increase of 6.3% between the second half of 2010 and 2011. Household gas prices increased by 10.3% in the EU27 ...
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) welcomed the introduction of the Generalized System of Preferences Update for Production Diversification and Trade Enhancement Act (GSP UPDATE Act), legislation that would make U.S. imports ...
Tags: Apparel&Footwear, GSP Update Bill
The sharemarket pulled back yesterday as profit warnings in the mining services and consumer discretionary sectors continued to drag on sentiment. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 0.6 per cent at 5180.1 points after falling to ...
Tags: Stocks, Mining Services Companies, Profit
This fully automated bulk bag filling system provides National Type Evaluation Program (NTEP)-certified bulk bag weighing accurate to +/- .01% up to a total bulk bag fill weight of 4,500 pounds. NBE design-stage integration of ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Processing Machinery
Phaswana is chairman of Standard Bank Group and The Standard Bank of South Africa and was also chairman of the South African Institute of International Affairs and non-executive director of Naspers. David Williams, joint chairman, said: ...
South African financial services group Sanlam has concluded the acquisition of a 49% stake in Malaysian niche short-term insurer, Pacific & Orient Insurance Co. Berhad (POI), for nearly MYR270m ($89.m). Sanlam Emerging Markets (SEM), ...
Investors have continued to cut back on share ownership, both directly and through managed funds, according to an ASX survey released today. The survey, conducted every two years, revealed that more than half a million people, or almost 3 ...
The sharemarket opened the week with a solid gain yesterday on signs of recovery in the US economy ahead of Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's monetary policy testimony on Wednesday (US time) before the joint economic committee of ...
Tags: Sharemarket, Solid Gain
Restaurants in the EU have to serve olive oil in tamper-proof packaging from next year, as Brussels has announced that it will ban the use of refillable bottles and dipping bowls of olive oil at restaurant tables From 1 January 2014 ...
Tags: Packaging, Olive Oil, Tamper-Proof Packs
Symphony Environmental Technologies said it has made an “encouraging start” to the year In a recently published AGM Statement, he oxo-degradable additive firm said it had successfully developed from a UK commodity type ...
Tags: Symphony Reports, d2w, Packaging
Design consultancy P4CK has launched a brand new packaging concept for takeaway fish and chips The news follows an appearance by the firm, last year, on BBC2’s Dragon’s Den and a £50,000 investment from Theo Paphitis. ...
Tags: P4CK, takeaway fish, takeaway chips, Packaging
Seasoning Transfer Netting combines the convenience of the company's patented transfer technology with the shaping properties of tight-weave netting for a one-step process that forms and applies flavor, color and pattern to boneless and ...
Recloseable packaging and microwaveable plastic trays were named top packaging breakthroughs that most impacted peoples' lives over the last 25 years in an on-line survey hosted by DuPont. Together the two categories of invention captured ...
Tags: Food Packaging, Packaging, Lives
GDP fell by 0.2% in the euro area (EA17) and by 0.1% in the EU27 during the first quarter of 2013, compared with the previous quarter, according to flash estimates published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In the ...
Tags: Flash Estimate, GDP
The Ifo World Economic Climate Indicator continued to rise, even if only slightly. Both assessments of the current economic situation and the six-month economic outlook improved slightly compared to the previous quarter. There are a growing ...
Tags: IFO World Economic, Economic