Exhibitors at the fall High Point Market's preview event continued to praise its viability on Monday, opening day of the two-day Premarket.By giving suppliers early access to buyers representing about half the retail floors its product gets ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Furniture Brands International's Chapter 11 filing lists the company's 30 largest unsecured claims, headed by the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. The amount of the pension claim isn't given. In its latest financial statement for ...
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GlaxoSmithKline is to sell its drinks brands Lucozade and Ribena to Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd (SBF), the Japanese consumer goods company, for GBP 1.35 billion (AUD 2.4b) in cash. It is expected that the transaction will be completed by ...
Tags: Beverage, Food, Agriculture
Xiaomi paraded its new international figurehead on stage at a press conference late last week in Beijing, signaling to the world that the company is preparing to go global. Hugo Barra, the former Google executive Xiaomi poached last ...
Tags: Xiaomi, Homegrown Strategy
This research service identifies the major industry drivers, restraints, regional trends, and technology segment trends in the global automotive refinish coatings market. The research covers four regions: North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coatings Market
Eurofins Scientific, a global food and pharmaceutical product testing services provider, has acquired an 81% stake in Agrisearch Services and its wholly-owned subsidiaries Agrisearch Analytical and Agrivet Services, for an undisclosed ...
Endurance Specialty Holdings, a Bermuda-based provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, is to expand its Asia Pacific reinsurance business with the addition of its Singapore-based Global Catastrophe Reinsurance (GCR) ...
Vietnam is one of the countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and the agreement throws a challenge for Vietnam’s garment and textile sector which heavily depends on raw material imports for production of finished ...
Tags: Garment Sector, Apparel
Aetna, a US-based medical insurance provider, has teamed up with The Company for Cooperative Insurance (Tawuniya) to offer its Pacific Prime clients in Saudi Arabia with new medical insurance options. The new medical insurance coverage ...
Tags: Medical Insurance
Hartung Glass Industries and the Glass Association of North America (GANA) have announced that Hartung Glass Industries is sponsoring a private tour of the Museum of Glass during the GANA NW Roundtable event in Tacoma, Wash. on October 15. ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration
Growth in worldwide demand for packaging machinery is expected to climb at a 4.6 percent annual pace through 2017 to $41.8 billion. An improved business climate-which will be reflected in expanding fixed investment spending, manufacturing ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Packaging Machinery
Specialty sleep producer Authentic Comfort said Eric Besner has joined the company as executive vice president of sales and marketing. Besner recently held the same position at Louisville Bedding and was previously national accounts ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use
CRAiLAR Technologies Inc., which produces and markets CRAiLAR Flax fiber The Friendliest Fiber On The Planet, announced that it has executed a letter of intent ("LOI") to acquire a European fiber dyeing facility with more than thirty years ...
Tags: Fiber Dyeing, Textile
In 2012, the Asia Pacific region (APAC) consumption value of LED lamps in general lighting reached US$1.45 billion. The consumption value will increase with strongly rising quantity growth partially offset by declining average prices, ...
For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2013 (ended 19 June), optical networking and associated semiconductor technology firm JDSU of Milpitas, CA, USA has reported net revenue of $421.3m, up on $405.3m last quarter but down on $434m a year ago. ...