US seafood importer South Pacific Specialties is upgrading its Miami processing operations with modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) technology amid vertical integration push in South America and Asia. The company also expects to ...
Tags: South Pacific, MAP Technology, Packaging
Global Closure Systems will showcase its portfolio of closures at Packaging Innovations 2015, which is scheduled to be held in Birmingham, England, from 25-26 February. The company will exhibit its portfolio of standard as well as bespoke ...
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Kraft Foods is reformulating a few of its Capri Sun drinks by replacing high-fructose corn syrup with sugar. This comes in response to increasing demand from parents for inclusion of more natural ingredients in beverages meant for ...
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Total apparel imports by the United States stood at $81.780 billion in 2014, showing an increase of 2.49 per cent over imports of $79.797 billion made in 2013, according to the latest Major Shippers Report, released by the US Department of ...
Tags: Apparel Imports, Apparel
“In 2014, we delivered 16 per cent growth in adjusted earnings per share, significantly increased return on capital, and distributed over $480 million of cash to shareholders, CEO of Avery Dennison said. CEO Dean Scarborough said, ...
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The Cotton Association of India (CAI) has downwardly revised the country’s cotton output for the ongoing season 2014-15 to 397 lakh bales of 170 kg each from its December 2014 estimate of 400.25 lakh bales, a news agency reported. ...
Tags: Cotton Output, cotton production
For the fourth fiscal quarter ended January 4, 2015, Gildan Activewear said it slipped in to losses, when compared with fourth fiscal quarter of previous year. Gildan reported a net loss of US$41.2 million or US$0.34 per diluted share for ...
Tags: Gildan Activewear, Apparel
Irrespective of the fine print in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, expected to be signed this year, Vietnam’s apparel industry is likely to benefit at the expense of its South Asian competitors like Bangladesh and Sri ...
Tags: Apparel Industry, Apparel
For the second fiscal quarter ended January 3, 2015, sales from continuing operations were up 4.6 per cent from the year ago quarter at apparel retailer and NASDAQ listed, Bebe Stores. Net sales from continuing operations increased 4.6 ...
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The Princess Power Tour sees Barbie visiting eight cities over nine days throughout the February half term. Barbie is to embark on a Princess Power Tour of the UK to mark the launch of the Princess Power toy range of DVD release. The ...
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From a successful Kickstarter campaign last year, Warpo has launched its H.P. Lovecraft-inspired Legends of Cthulhu action figure line in the US. Legends of Cthulhu are the first action figures based on the world of H.P. Lovecraft, and ...
China's gold consumption tumbled 24.7 percent year on year to 886.1 tonnes last year, industry data showed Friday. The plunge was mainly attributed to a drop in consumption of gold bars, which posted a year on year decrease of 59 percent ...
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Notebook shipments (excluding detachable models) by the top-five vendors as well as top-three ODMs suffered a sequential decline of 25% and 19%, respectively, in January due to a high level of inventory at channels which resulted mainly ...
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According to a report by medical industry experts that insurance costs has been going up due to the rising medical costs and an aging population while insurance funds continue to be saddled by the slowdown in the economy. The government ...
Tags: Health Insurance, medical industry
A highly successful Winter 2015 Las Vegas Market recently concluded, delivering record-breaking numbers for attendance and exhibitors, as well as an impressive roster of exclusive programming, highlighted by the third annual CEO Summit. ...
Tags: Las Vegas Market, Furniture