At the beginning of the reported week, the turnover in the German cotton market, developed as brisk as it had been the week before. Contracts were primarily closed for standard origins as well as for European varieties whose availability, ...
Tags: Cotton Market, staple cotton
Weak retail traffic and ramped-up discounts to clear merchandise, once again hit profits at denim jeans marketer - Levi Strauss & Co for the third fiscal quarter ended August 24, 2014. In the third fiscal quarter, Levis posted profit of ...
Tags: denim jeans, Levis
Sales of the largest sporting goods retailers reached $86,269 million in 2013 against $81,646 million the prior year, an increase of 5.7% in US$ and 6.8% in local currency compared to an impressive 10.2% growth rate in the prior year. ...
Tags: sporting goods, Developed markets
Blue Nile is being challenged by rising diamond prices, forcing the online jeweler to seek out growth in other areas. As diamond prices rise, eroding Blue Nile’s competitive advantage that its lower online prices offer, consumers will ...
Tags: diamond market, Blue Nile
The decline in cotton price and slowing demand for apparel and other textile products in key North American and European markets have put tremendous pressure on synthetic pricing in the past several months. The global synthetic fiber price ...
Tags: Synthetic Fiber, Cotton
Asia, which had generally led the global growth rate until the recent inventory glut hit China, is showing signs of improvement but remains the weakest region overall. Sales rose 5.4% in weighted currency but fell in US$ to $12,593 million ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Technovaa Packaging Industries, the industrial arm of Darvesh and a major paper products/plastic film producers in the regional packaging industry, has broken ground for a manufacturing facility at Kizad, according to the Abu Dhabi Ports ...
Tags: Technovaa, Manufacturing Facility, Packaging
Mitsubishi is planning to end the production of Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and replace it with an SUV. Autocar reported that Mitsubishi product boss Kanenori Okamoto has confirmed the reports regarding Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution's exit ...
Tags: Mitsubishi
For Chinese solar manufacturers, the fourth quarter is the most important time for solar photovoltaic installations. It is then that Chinese vendors speed up deployment to meet the central government’s annual targets. The Chinese ...
Tags: solar industry, solar PV
Given the predicted 1.8 million tons of surplus cotton production and changes in China’s cotton policy, prices are unlikely to rise to the levels seen in the last two seasons, says a report of the International Cotton Advisory ...
Jamba Juice Company, a leading healthy, active lifestyle brand announced today that the Company has entered into a master franchise development agreement with Quan Hung Gourmet Company to develop 35 Jamba Juice stores in Taiwan over the ...
Tags: Jamba Juice, development agreement, Food
Date: Nov 25th- 28th, 2014 Address: Shanghai New International Expo Center Booth No. for Made-in-China.com: E3 470 2,718 exhibitors from 38 countries and around 180,000 trade visitors from 141 countries: Bauma China set new records ...
Tags: Bauma China 2014, All-Ways Expo Sourcing, construction machinery
When the U.S. is switching to midterm election time, the media's attention is usually focused on domestic issues. It is not that international affairs are not important, but comparatively the public that is overwhelmed by local issues often ...
Tags: Foreign Policy, Policy
Since the October 2013 Central Conference on periphery diplomacy, Chinese diplomacy regarding neighboring countries has followed the new philosophy of "good neighborliness, sincerity, mutual benefits, and inclusiveness," presenting a ...
Tags: Service, Periphery Diplomacy
On Wednesday, after wee-hours bargaining that capped more than a decade of negotiations, Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation announced the signing of a 30-year gs-supply contract, estimated by the parties to be worth $400 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy