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UK Retail Sales on August Support Growing Optimism
Sep 4, 2013UK retail sales values were up 1.8% on a like-for-like basis from August 2012, when they had decreased 0.4% on the preceding year. On a total basis, sales were up 3.6%, against a 1.6% increase in August 2012. While the growth was ...
Tags: Retail Sales, Textile
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LFW From Sabyasachi Mukherjee with One of The Most Stunning Grand Finales
Sep 4, 2013The curtains on Lakmé Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2013 came down with one of the most stunning Grand Finales. Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s magnificent range, inspired by the limited edition Lakmé Absolute Royal collection, had ...
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a New Textile Park Would Be Coming up in The Central Indian State of Madhya Pradesh
Sep 4, 2013A new textile park would be coming up in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Union Textile Minister K Sambasiva Rao has said. Speaking at the National Textile Summit 2013 held in Indore, the Minister said a textile park would be ...
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Mattes & Ammann First German and The EU Economic Area to Receive Step Certificate
Sep 4, 2013At the end of July 2013, the Swabian knitted fabrics manufacturer, Mattes & Ammann GmbH & Co. KG, became the first textile company in Germany and the EU economic area to be awarded the OEKO-TEX Sustainable Textile Production (STeP) ...
Tags: STeP Certificate, Mattes&Ammann
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Colombia and Chile Have Concluded Trade Negotiations for Four-Nation Pacific Alliance
Sep 4, 2013The representatives of Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Chile have concluded trade negotiations for Pacific Alliance, at the Ninth Ministerial Meeting of the Pacific Alliance, held in Mexico last month. Peru’s Minister of Foreign Trade ...
Tags: Pacific Alliance, Textile
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Highlands Theme From Woolmark Was Inspired by English Nature
Sep 4, 2013The Wool Lab from Woolmark has released seven inspirational themes for Autumn/Winter 2014/15. One of which is Highlands The mood was inspired by two trends becoming more and more evident: the coming back of the jacket and of tweed or ...
Tags: knitwear, jacket, tweed-look fabrics
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Nominate Their Fleet for The Best Fleet to Drive for Competition
Sep 4, 2013The call has once again gone out to North American drivers and owner/operators, to nominate their fleet for the Best Fleet to Drive For competition. The competition is hosted by the Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) and administered by ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
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Ultra HD TV Pricing in China Is Likely to Drop to That of Full HD Units for The October 1
Sep 3, 2013Ultra HD TV pricing in China is likely to drop to that of Full HD units for the October 1 holiday period in China, according to market observers. While Ultra HD TV panel pricing has not dropped significantly in recent months, TV vendors ...
Tags: Ultra HD TV, Full HD Units
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White-Box Tablet Shipments Reached Only 15.9 Million Units in The Second Quarter of 2013
Sep 3, 2013White-box tablet shipments reached only 15.9 million units in the second quarter of 2013, down 26.3% sequentially due to weakening tablet demand in May and June. Many smaller white-box players were also forced to quit the market, according ...
Tags: White-Box Tablet, Electronics
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Micro-Server Vendors Are Expected to Focus on Pushing Their Related Products
Sep 3, 2013In addition to Hewlett-Packard (HP) and IBM, Dell recently launched its latest micro-server, the PowerEdge T20, targeting small enterprises and personal studios. Since these types of businesses are more popular in the Asia Pacific region, ...
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MEA Tablet Market Exceeded The Region's Portable PC Market for The First Time in The Q2
Sep 3, 2013The size of the Middle East and Africa (MEA) tablet market exceeded the region's portable PC market for the first time in the second quarter of 2013, according to IDC. IDC has announced that tablet shipments for the quarter were up 208% on ...
Tags: Tablet Market, PC Market
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Worldwide PC Shipments Are Now Expected to Fall by -9.7 Percent in 2013
Sep 3, 2013Worldwide PC shipments are now expected to fall by -9.7 percent in 2013, further deepening what is already the longest market contraction on record, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. The ...
Tags: PC shipments, Computer Products
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Osram Will Start Offering Organic LED Products for Automotive Lighting Applications
Sep 3, 2013Product roadmap unveiled ahead of Frankfurt Motor Show later this month. Osram says that it will start offering organic LED products for automotive lighting applications as soon as 2014, and expects series production of vehicles ...
Tags: Osram, OLED Deployment
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Total Smartphone AP Shipments to The China Market Came to 92.1 Million Units
Sep 3, 2013Total smartphone application processor (AP) shipments to the China market came to 92.1 million units in the second quarter of 2013, up 13.1% sequentially and 84.4% on year, buoyed mainly by robust growth in MediaTek's shipments to the ...
Tags: Smartphone, application processor
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Mobile Data Services Will All Contribute to Healthy Growth in IT in China
Sep 3, 2013Mobile data services, external controller-based storage systems, business IT services and enterprise application software will all contribute to healthy growth in information technology (IT) in China, according to a new report from Gartner. ...
Tags: IT services, Mobile data
