On November 20, Chinese steelmaker Chongqing Iron and Steel Co. (Chongqing Steel), a subsidiary of Chongqing Iron and Steel (Group) Co., announced that its major asset restructuring plan has received final approval from the China Securities ...
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The North American Home Furnishings Assn. has put out a call for nominations for its 2014 Retailer of the Year awards. Nominations are due by Dec. 1 and awards will be presented June 1 at the annual Home Furnishings Networking Conference ...
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J.E. Fortin celebrates 90th birthday with a new Freightliner Cascadia J.E. Fortin Inc. has celebrated its 90th anniversary and did so by unveiling its 426th truck, a 2013 Freightliner Cascadia equipped with a Detroit DD15 engine. The ...
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Kas is making the move to additional home décor categories. The rug vendor has announced it will launch its first pillows and poufs to kick off 2014. In addition, Kas will move into a new showroom in AmericasMart for the Jan. 7-14 ...
Chinese motion upholstery producer Man Wah Holdings said its U.S. sales rose 13.4% in the six months ended Sept. 30, as gradually improving economic conditions helped the company continue to gain market share. In a report filed with the ...
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Lane Furniture is shutting down its trucking subsidiary, Action Transport, and turning its furniture transport operations over to Watkins & Shepard, the nation's largest specialized furniture carrier. The change, which takes effect ...
American Signature here said it will open its Value City Furniture and American Signature stores on Thanksgiving evening for the first time this year. In a release, the Top 100 company, with 126 store in 18 states, said its "Black Friday" ...
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Composite leading indicators (CLIs), designed to anticipate turning points in economic activity relative to trend, signal improvements in growth in most major OECD countries and also possibly in China. The CLIs point to economic growth ...
The final approved documents for Part L have been published by the Department for Communities and Local Government with widely-anticipated amendments confirmed. As previously reported in Lighting, there are two major changes in the ...
Microsoft says the launch of the Xbox One on Friday has been the most successful yet for its Xbox gaming console family. The company sold 1 million consoles in less than 24 hours, it said, putting it roughly equal with the launch of ...
Campus networking solutions vendor Brocade has unveiled its ICX 7750 fixed-port, high density 10/40 GbE switch. Brocade says the switch enables scale-out of campus aggregation networks, in theory helping organisations reduce TCO, add ...
Lloyds Bank has revealed how using service virtualisation has helped it cut app development costs by reducing testing times and highlighting defects earlier so that they can be fixed more cheaply. The bank, which uses CA ...
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The firm sealed a sales agreement with Paper Pak Industries (PPI) on the use of UltraZap XtendaPak absorber for its first use in Europe. The absorber, which is already available in the US, is placed underneath the packaged meat and limits ...
Allpax Products, powered by Pro Mach, said today that for the first time Gentle Motion reciprocating retorts have been installed in a food plant in Europe. The retorts are being used on shelf-stable soup products packed in flexible ...
The FSA is making local authorities aware that various dried fish products have been packaged in an unapproved establishment, trading as Africa Choice. If you have bought one of the listed products, displaying the approval number UK OL026 ...
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