Aditya Birla Group has announced the launch of Birla Cellulose’s ‘Liva’ brand. The Liva fabric uses Birla Cellulose’s viscose staple fibre (vsf) and is manufactured by the company’s accredited partners, who are ...
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REI reported record annual revenues of $2.2 billion, a 9.9 percent increase from 2013, and said it would double its investment in non-profits and new projects to create access to inspirational outdoor places to nearly $8 million. The ...
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Avago Technologies Ltd (a designer and supplier of III-V-based analog components for communications, industrial and consumer applications) says it has now shipped more than 1 million channels of 25G vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers ...
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World cotton production this season is forecast at 119.2 million bales, virtually unchanged from last month’s projection and slightly below 2013/14 as higher area this season is offset by a lower yield. “Global harvested area ...
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Soft-drinks giant Coca-Cola has announced that it will revamp the packaging of all its flavours in Europe to lend a same look and feel to its products. The change will be applied across its entire product portfolio which includes the ...
China will stabilize its property market this year, with tailored, market-based policies to guide "stable and healthy development," according to the government work report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang Thursday.[Special coverage] ...
Outside of China, cotton stocks at the end of 2014/15 season are expected to increase for the second consecutive season from 7.5 million tons to 9.5 million tons, which is the largest volume of stocks in the last 35 years, says the ...
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LG plans to launch a new flagship series of smartphones that will be positioned above the existing G-series, a new report suggests. An article by the Korea Herald claims that LG wants to outdo its own top-tier goods with a super-premium ...
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U.S. farmers could harvest their second-largest soybean crop and the number three corn crop under the revised planting projections released by USDA at its Outlook Forum. When the projected plantings are combined with USDA's projected ...
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For its second fiscal quarter ended December 27, 2014, sales drove down 14 per cent from a year earlier quarter at Coach Inc, a New York design house of modern luxury accessories and lifestyle collections. Coach said it reported sales for ...
Today, Metromile and Uber announced an innovative partnership to provide variably-priced, pay-per-mile auto insurance for drivers who use Uber's rideshare platform. The two companies have jointly developed the first technology solution that ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is awarding $1 million in grants to strengthen the capacity of states and tribes to protect and restore wetlands. The National Wetland Program Development Grants provide interstate agencies, ...
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The Dow Chemical Company and the American Association of Chemistry Teachers (AACT) are partnering to invigorate chemistry education and support STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education in the nation’s schools. Dow ...
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Novozymes unveiled its new corporate strategy titled, ‘Partnering for impact’, which is accompanied by a new set of long-term social, environmental and financial targets. It also includes a new purpose statement which reads, ...
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Brazilian cotton output might again reduce in the 2014/15 crop, but would still be close to the average registered over the last 11 seasons, says the latest fortnightly report of CEPEA. “In worldwide terms, a supply decrease is ...
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