BMC Switzerland has promoted Matt Heitmann, the former BMC director of marketing in the U.S., to the new position of global director of marketing for the BMC Group, overseeing the BMC brand portfolio of BMC, Stromer, and Bergamont. Devin ...
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Research by Microsoft has shown 70% of office workers get 'more done' working away from the office. The research is launched today (18 March) to coincide with the start of Anywhere Working Week and is an Ipsos MORI study of UK office ...
Cycling website RedKitePrayer.com has added two new members to its team. Wayne Thompson has taken the role of advertising sales director. Thompson is the former owner of Kind Bicycles and prior to that was an executive with Pacific Cycle. ...
Tags: Bicycles, cyclist, cycling community
Burgeoning markets in developing countries are favouring simpler hardware providers like Nokia over more high-end producers like Apple. While Apple's dominance in western markets is set to be tested today (14 March) by the launch of ...
Tags: Apple products, Apple, hardware
Italy's Eni may be looking at developing further joint projects with China's National Petroleum Corp after the offshore Mozambique deal signed Thursday, Eni's CEO Paolo Scaroni said. Speaking to journalists after the presentation of Eni's ...
Tags: CNPC, Africa Projects, Chemicals
Move over skinny jeans–flared and wide leg trousers are back and are the biggest style hit of the spring summer season, says department store Debenhams. No longer banished to fashion history books and seen only on the likes of Elvis ...
Tags: Wide Leg Trousers, Apparel, Debenhams
The US Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC), an industry-led collaboration headquartered at the State University of New York (SUNY) College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), has partnered with the US Department of ...
Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules) has launched the Total GaN family of gallium nitride on silicon transistors and diodes, establishing what is claimed to ...
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In booth 1127 at OFC/NFOEC 2013 in Anaheim, CA, USA (19-21 March), OneChip Photonics Inc of Ottawa, Canada, which designs optical chips and transceivers based on monolithic photonic integrated circuits (PICs) fabricated in indium phosphide ...
Art Van Furniture has opened its seventh Art Van PureSleep store here and says it has four more on the way this spring, including its first outside Michigan in Toledo, Ohio. The 4,200-square-foot store here in a strip center at 44975 ...
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At the OFC/NFOEC 2013 show in Anaheim (19-21 March), optical components, modules and subsystems developer Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA is highlighting its 100G networking expertise with a live demonstration of its LR4 CFP2 transceiver in ...
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Rent-to-own retailer Aaron's has opened 32 company-operated and franchised stores in 17 states and two Canadian provinces in the past three months, the company announced. "Last year was incredibly strong with a 6.6% increase in store ...
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Bedding veteran Ron Passaglia, president and chief marketing officer at Top 15 bedding producer Restonic, has been elected chairman of the International Sleep Products Assn. Also elected to a leadership post at ISPA was Kathryn Roedel, ...
Tags: Bedding, Light Industry, Daily Use
At this year's ISH KSB presented its newly developed, maintenance-free, high-efficiency wet rotor pump (glandless) named Calio. The pump meets the energy efficiency requirements taking effect in 2015 already today. The new pump series ...
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Siemens Energy has opened two major R&D test facilities for wind turbine technology in Denmark. The new test centre in Brande features test stands for major components of Siemens wind turbines, including generators, main bearings and ...