Britain's largest cash-and-carry wholesaler the Booker Group has revealed plans to integrate Makro, the business it acquired last year, are on track, claims the firm's interim results announcement. The group's plans to integrate Makro ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Two congressmen have introduced bipartisan legislation that would require the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to write a regulation covering sleep disorders, rather than issue a guidance as it is planning to do. Reps. Larry ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use, sleep products
Adaptive Biotechnologies, a biotechnology company, has secured a $2.5m Phase II small business innovation research (SBIR) award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, a division of the NIH. The award is granted to ...
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Across the country and around the world, the face of retail is changing fast with kiosks and pop-up stores leading the growth trend. The challenge for manufacturers, established brands, small business owners and major retailers is how to ...
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NovelMed Therapeutics has received a combined $1.43m small business innovation research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to further develop its anti-complement antibody for orphan disease. The company will use the ...
Reporting a 34% revenue increase year on year in 2012 and expecting sales for the second half of 2013 to climb from the flat first half, L&L Machinery Industry Co., Ltd., a leading heavy-duty-lathe maker in Taiwan, is moving in a new ...
Graniteville Specialty Fabrics, Graniteville, S.C. — a provider of specialty coatings and custom coated fabrics for tent, awning, marine, military and other applications — has received a 2013 Manufacturer of the Year Award in ...
Some people think that China is not only a country, but also a big factory. Especially in textile production, China has the image of being a land of extremely large companies with tens of thousands of employees in every factory. For the ...
Tags: Textile
Bottled natural spring water manufacturer Nirvana Water has received a $3.2m loan from the New York Business Development. The company used the loan amount to purchase a new bottling line that has the capacity to annually produce eight ...
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Health insurer Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) has deployed hCentive’s exchange integration and private exchange solutions to offer single sales portal. The insurer deployed cloud-based WebInsure Exchange Manager solution to manage its ...
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The Tire Industry Association (TIA) has named Lex Brodie, Robert "Bob" Dunlap and Richard "Dick" Johnson to the TIA Hall of Fame. They will be recognized at TIA's Tire Industry Honors event on Nov. 4, 2013, one day prior to the Global ...
Tags: Auto Parts, tyre
When Microsoft shipped Windows 2000 and Active Directory, Apple didn't really have a solution for identity management or for linking Macs to an enterprise network. The company was just beginning the transition from its classic Mac OS ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Australian businesses are taking longer to pay each other in 2013 compared to a year earlier, in an indication that their level of financial health has not improved. Despite edging down in the June quarter, businesses are taking 54 days ...
Tags: Australian Businesses, economy
Enterprises that rely on cloud-based services are getting more options for falling back on another cloud if necessary. On Tuesday, Nasuni introduced a cloud-to-cloud mirroring option to give customers extra assurance that their data will ...
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Australia- and Greer, S.C.-based specialty chemicals and solutions developer Alexium International Group Ltd. — holder of proprietary patent applications for Reactive Surface Treatment (RST) technology — has developed an ...