Urban Barns Foods, a Canada-based local grower of green leaf vegetables, has introduced a sustainable commercial growing facility, Cubic Farming growing practices. This next generation agriculture is an indoor practice which will increase ...
Austria-based spinning and dyeing company Schoeller GmbH & Co. KG's Spinning Group has received the 2012 Vorarlberg Innovation Award for its sustainable EXP 3.0 wool finishing process. Unlike traditional wool finishing methods, ...
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Indorama Ventures PCL, Thailand, has announced plans to expand its U.S. polyethylene terephthalate (PET) annual production capacity by 540,000 metric tons at an undisclosed brownfield location. The expansion is expected to be completed in ...
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Dallas-based men's apparel manufacturer Haggar Clothing Co. reports that more than 14 million plastic bottles have been recycled within the first year of production of its LK Life Khaki™ pants -- a collection of casual khaki pants for ...
New York City-based men's and women's apparel retailer Brooks Brothers has launched a new signature tartan and, in partnership with Royal Warrant kilt maker Kinloch Anderson, Scotland, opened a Highland Dress Store at its flagship store in ...
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News that debt-laden giant Premier Foods plans to axe 900 jobs,close two bakeries and restructure its distribution system was greeted with fury by unions and applause by City analysts. Unite the union and the Bakers Food and Allied ...
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Following September's launch of Somerset by Alice Temperley for John Lewis-the fastest selling brand in the department store's history-this Christmas will see John Lewis exclusively unveil the ultimate Somerset party dress. Reminiscent of ...
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Textured Jersey Lanka PLC(TJL),Sri Lanka's premier manufacturer of knit fabric,demonstrated its operating excellence by doubling net profits for the quarter ended 30 September 2012(2Q FY2012/13),as per the financial results released to the ...
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The Children's Place Retail Stores Inc.,the largest pure-play children's specialty apparel retailer in North America,announced third quarter net sales increased 3%to$500.9 million for the thirteen weeks ended October 27,2012,compared ...
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DeMarini,makers of the world's finest performance baseball,fastpitch and slowpitch bats,recognizes this and is introducing a full line of men's,women's and youth apparel designed to meet the needs of the insanely dedicated ball player.After ...
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Sears Canada Inc.announced that Douglas C.Campbell has been appointed Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company effective today.In his new role,Mr.Campbell will oversee retail ...
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GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) Promacta has won FDA approval as thrombocytopenia therapy in chronic hepatitis C patients. Promacta, brand name of eltrombopag in the US, will enable thrombocytopenia patients suffering from chronic hepatitis C ...
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Mike Gibbons,CIO of building materials company Aggregate Industries,talks to Computer Weekly about why regulatory intervention made the company realise the importance of its data assets,and the reason investment in IT is more important now ...
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HP claims to have been wilfully misled by'former'members of Autonomy's management team in the lead up to its acquisition and has now written$8.8bn off of the company's value. The announcement of the write down came in the firm's fourth ...
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Hewlett-Packard is taking an $8.8 billion charge as a result of what it called serious accounting improprieties that occurred at U.K. software company Autonomy before it acquired the firm in 2011. Taking the charge into account, HP ...
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