Monty and Mabel the penguins and the CGI stars of the retailer's 2014 Christmas ad prove a popular choice this year. John Lewis’s Christmas advert mascots, Monty and Mabel plush toy penguins have sold out online, despite anger ...
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Audi’s car pool service, “Audi shared fleet” has been chosen by German start-up campus “Factory Berlin” to provide fleet service. Factory Berlin will be using Audi A1 Sportback, A3 Sportback e tron, Audi ...
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Although dwindling domestic demand and excess capacity have shrunk profit margins for most Chinese steelmakers, it has inspired some to tap overseas markets for sustained, long-term growth. Hebei Iron &Steel Co, China's second-largest ...
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The Tire Retread & Repair Information Bureau (TRIB) will increase its partnership with the Tire Industry Association (TIA) next year, David Stevens, managing director, told members at the group’s annual meeting on Nov. 3, 2014, in Las ...
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Country of origin matters to consumers. Recent research carried out by Perception Research Services found that the perceptions of a country in consumers’ eyes can have a significant influence on consumer behaviour towards a product ...
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The recent re-launch of the CanadaMark hallmark by Dominion Diamond Corporation is designed to enhance the company’s status as Canada’s primary diamond mining company. While CanadaMark is essentially a business-to-business (B2B) ...
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Two-thirds of the world’s largest companies are reporting exposure to water risks, some of which have potential to limit growth. The news comes amid mounting shareholder concern around the business impacts from water scarcity, ...
Tags: Water Risk, water management data
Australia Post has launched a new service called ShopMate, just in time for Christmas and opening the door to US online stores for local shoppers, and no doubt driving to despair more Australian retailers. ShopMate is said to be “a ...
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Increasing workforce wages and commercial real estate rental fees in main cities of China has led to the emergence of e-commerce, which has the upside of saving about 60% of operating cost. The importance o the E-commerce trend in China can ...
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Marks & Spencer (M&S) has published its financial results for the half year ending 27th September 2014, highlighting growing margin and profit over the period. Group sales rose by 1% to £4.9b. First-half sales were down 6.3%, partly ...
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The electronics specialist has seen 'phenomenal growth' in the toy sector this year. Toys are playing a pivotal role in the future of business for UK electronics specialist Maplin. Over the last year, the retailer – which deals in ...
Tags: toy sector, Toys, electrical equipment
Home furnishing retailer IKEA has announced total sales of £1.4b in the UK for the financial year ending 31st August 2014, an increase of 11.3% on the previous year. Following an ambitious pledge last year by UK country retail ...
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The latest ABS Retail Trade figures show that Australian retail turnover rose 1.2 per cent in September 2014, seasonally adjusted, following a rise of 0.1 per cent in August 2014. In seasonally adjusted terms the largest contributor to ...
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David Atkinson’s lighting scheme for the Sky Gallery at The O2 blends LEDs with traditional technologies to stunning effect. Jill Entwistle asks the 2011 Lighting Designer of the Year how he realised the project There ...
The retailer has launched its first TV advertising campaigning aimed at driving consumer in store this Christmas. Robert Dyas has injected over £1 million in to the launch of its first ever TV advertising campaign in the run up to ...
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