For the first time in Australia and New Zealand, value chain professionals can in 2013 compete globally against fellow professionals in a unique and innovative learning format. The Fresh Connection Global Challenge is in 2013 offering an ...
Tags: value chain, learning format, face-to-face workshop-style learning
Always striving to offer the best possible service and latest interior design trends, Curtains Made Simple is responding to consumer need for more choice and flexibility by adding to its ever-increasing online range in 2013. The 8 new ...
Christian Schwarz, who had been CEO of the Swedspan Group owned by the Ikea concern since August 2008, left the group with effect from 9 January 2013. Jörgen Lindquist, who had been appointed as CFO of the Swedspan Group in September ...
Automated self-checkout is appearing in more and more retail stores, with Walmart this year installing 10,000 self-service kiosks in hundreds of stores. But self-checkout is a technology direction with risks -- and even as Walmart moves ...
HIGH POINT — The California official heading revisions to that state's longtime flammability regulation and the scientist whose research prompted the urgent regulatory overhaul will both participate in the American Home Furnishings ...
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According to industry experts, backed by strong activity on the policy reforms front, the Rs 9,600 crore lighting industry is expecting to clock a healthy growth in 2013. Even though the industry faced some rough weather on project sales, ...
Tags: India, LED Industry, LEDs, LED lighting
Google-owned Motorola Mobility's acquisition of Viewdle this week, a jump in the number of visitors to the insideAR conference and Nokia's recent launch of the City Lens application all illustrate growing interest in augmented reality. ...
Tags: Motorola Mobility, Viewdle, acquisition, augmented reality
MERRIAM, Kansas — The Merriam City Council has unanimously approved plans for Ikea to build its first Kansas City-area store here, with an opening planned for fall 2014, the retailer said. Ikea, which announced plans for the store ...
Tags: Ikea, store, home interiors, Ikea store
"Apple Maps is the worst-received new product to come out of Cupertino since the 1993 launch of the Newton...the child of a nasty divorce between two of the world's most powerful companies." " -- Forbes magazine Those two companies are ...
Tags: Apple, US Dominance, Japan, China
When industrial designer Samuel Bernier moved into his new apartment he was faced with a mass of furniture including a broken Ikea lamp that was left there by the previous tenant. When searching for a new shade to replace the tattered and ...
Tags: Ikea lamp, IKEA, lamp, incandescent bulbs
The 2012 Lighting Year began with the historic phase-out of the incandescent light bulb. The year continued with the 50th anniversary of the light-emitting diode (LED) in October and ended in December with yet another Greatest LED. ...
Tags: Philips, LED, LED lamp, LED Lighting, OsramNXP Cree
The 2012 Lighting Year began with the historic phase-out of the incandescent light bulb. The year continued with the 50th anniversary of the light-emitting diode (LED) in October and ended in December with yet another Greatest LED. ...
Tags: Philips LED, LED lamp, LED Lighting, OsramNXP Cree
Time isn’t the only thing that costs money. Space — specifically square footage — costs companies a pretty penny as well. No wonder that many organizations are trying to make do with the smallest amount of space possible. ...
Tags: decor, House decor, fueniture, desk
Retailers have been bound by the traditional brick and mortar facilites for so many years to advertise their products. IKEA's recent product introduction has bi-passed the hard – sturdy traditional design with the moveable floating ...
Tags: IKEA, floating market, decoration, design
The eyes of the textile universe were focused on Vietnam as the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) held its traditional Annual Conference from Nov. 4 – 6, 2012. In the highly anticipated Fiber Session on Nov. 4, ...
Tags: textile universe, ITMF, Annual Conference, top minds, MMF, Man-Made fiber