Results from a recent survey suggest that the industrial sector is generally optimistic about its growth prospects for the coming year, but sees an array of regulatory and policy-related issues as threats to its continued recovery. These ...
Tags: Processing Machinery
International home sales in the U.S. declined in the past year, but are at their second highest level in recent years and are over six percent of total existing-home sales in value. According to the National Association of Realtors 2013 ...
Tags: International home, profitable investment, major foreign economies
In this era of consolidation, instant gratification and mobile-savvy shoppers, it's getting more difficult for the independent furniture retailers to compete, let alone prosper. But it's not impossible, as many of the retailers on ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
China's state-owned refiners plan to run their refineries at around 81% of capacity in June, a rise of three percentage points from 78% in May, Platts monthly survey showed Monday. The survey this month covered 11 Sinopec refineries, ...
Tags: China Refiners, Sinopec, PetroChina
The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s (ELFA) Monthly Leasing and Finance Index, which reports economic activity from 25 companies representing a cross section of the $725 billion equipment finance sector, showed their ...
Almost 70 per cent of Australians would pay more for their clothes if they knew overseas workers were paid a decent wage and that garment factories had safe working conditions, according to a new Oxfam Australia survey. The survey, which ...
OPEC's role in supplying global oil markets has not been diminished by the surge in oil production in the United States, though trade patterns willshift as a result of the shale boom in North America, the head of the International Energy ...
Companies put themselves at risk by not giving staff the right communication tools to do their jobs properly, a study by video conferencing service provider, UCi2i, has found. The claim, based on a poll of 1,000 office employees in the ...
Home builders and lumber dealers are reporting significant shortages of key home building materials such as lumber and wall board, according to recent surveys by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and the National Lumber and ...
Research by show organiser easyFairs, published ahead of its Packaging Innovations London 2013 show in October, has found that 77% of packaging specifiers and marketers believe females are the most likely to be influenced by new pack ...
Tags: Women, Pack Gimmicks, Packaging&Printing
With Y2K long behind us, the greatest threat to mankind appears to be the zombie apocalypse, if "The Walking Dead" and "World War Z" are to be believed. And it is clear from studying those survival training "documentaries" that having the ...
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Existing-home sales improved in May and remain solidly above a year ago, while the median price continued to rise by double-digit rates from a year earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors. Total existing-home sales, ...
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Textiles contributed US$ 621.8 million or 76 percent of the overall US$ 818 million increase in Pakistan’s exports during the first ten months of the current fiscal year over the corresponding period of previous fiscal, according to ...
Tags: Textiles, Pakistan's Export
Commercial crude stocks in Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery point for the NYMEX crude contract, dropped for the third consecutive week, hitting its lowest level yet in 2013, US Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday. ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, oil
Intelligrated, a leading North American-based automated material handling solutions provider, has been recognized as a top workplace in the greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area by the Cincinnati Enquirer for 2013. Intelligrated ...
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