According to the survey jointly conducted by LEDinside and AVANTI, the proportion that Chinese consumers can cognitive LED bulbs clear is only 25%, enhancing consumer awareness is still the key for the popularization of LED lighting. In ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Consumer Awareness
LDK Solar, a China-based solar firm reported its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013. According to the firm, first-quarter net sales were US$104.3 million compared to US$135.9 million for the fourth ...
Oil futures accelerated a bullish climb shortly ahead of the 2:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT) NYMEX market settle to close Thursday sharply higher amid rising equities and a weaker dollar. ICE July Brent expired up 76 cents at $104.25/b, after ...
Tags: Oil Futures, Chemicals
The average bicycle retail store earns annual pre-tax profit of 5.5 percent, but the top 25 percent bring home nearly three times that. Is this really possible? If so, how do they do it? Aggressive marketing? Super staff training? ...
Tags: Bike Stores, Profit
While the curious are looking to get their hands on a pair of Google's Glass, companies also may be looking to weave the computerized eyeglasses into their businesses. "We see wearables as the logical next step at work," said Kelly ...
Tags: Google Glass, Wearable Computers
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has launched the Materials Sustainability Index (MSI) web tool as a new component to the Higg Index suite of sustainability tools for the apparel and footwear industries. This interactive new platform ...
Tags: SAC, Apparel Sector
First Flight Bicycles —a bike retailer that also manufactures Mountain Goat Cycles and operates an online and brick-and-mortar mountain bike history museum —?has added the legendary Hi-E component brand to its offerings. First ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
The next summer blockbuster out of 20th Century Fox might be called "The Incredible Shrinking Data Center." The entertainment giant is taking about 9,000 square feet of data center space, spread in three data centers, and shrinking it ...
Tags: IT, Data Center
Microsoft today announced it's struck a deal with Best Buy to create 600 stores-within-stores in the U.S. and Canada to sell customers on Windows 8, the Surface tablet line, and new PCs and devices from other OEMs. The move, which ...
lululemon athletica inc. announced financial results for the first quarter ended May 5, 2013. lululemon also announced that after a five and half year tenure Christine Day will step down as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer when a ...
Tags: lululemon athletica, Apparel
According to report, Turkey's flat steel prices will expect to decline further due to the market demand sluggish. Currently, hot Rolled Coil(HRC) quoted US$ 570-575/ton (ex-works) at local mills, but the transaction list price lower about ...
Tags: Flat Steel, Construction
The Fashion Institute of Technology's (FIT) beauty industry think tank unveiled "disruptive" visions for the future of consumer product marketing in three key areas of the digital sphere when they presented Beauty in a Digital World, on ...
Tags: FIT, Beauty Industry
The Eurozone manufacturing downturn eased for the first time in four months in May. Moreover, all sub indices from the latest survey improved on the earlier flash estimates except suppliers’ delivery times. At a 15-month high of ...
Tags: Manufacturing, May, Eurozone
We may live and do a lot business in a virtual world today, but there's nothing like a little face time. EastPack, to be held June 18-20 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, will provide plenty of opportunities for ...
Tags: Smorgasbord, Packaging&Printing
Alliance Pharmaceuticals Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Alliance Pharma, has purchased all the existing rights to obstetric drug Syntometrine from Novartis for $11.5m. The total consideration for acquiring the rights will be funded ...
Tags: Obstetric Drug, Medicine