In 2012, 15.2 million foreign citizens worked in the EU27, accounting for 7% of total employment. Among these foreign citizens, 6.6 million were citizens of another EU Member State and 8.6 million were citizens of a country outside the EU. ...
Tags: EU, Labour Force, Foreign Citizens
Gazprom is conducting a new round of gas talks with a number of its key European clients, including Italy's Eni and France's GDF, to revise down prices under long-term oil-indexed contracts, deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev said Tuesday, ...
The Valspar Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Inver Holding S.r.l., a leading industrial coatings manufacturer in Europe. The transaction is expected to close in the fiscal fourth quarter, subject to regulatory ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Italy-based Master S.r.l. reports it has combined its IndigoRope rope-dyeing machine with the new Genius/C integrated dyeing module to create the IndigoRope Genius/C dyeing machine for ecological indigo dyeing. The new technology improves ...
Tags: Textile, Master Indigorope Genius, Eco-Friendly Indigo
Italy-based Marzoli S.p.A., a manufacturer of complete spinning lines, reports it has committed to Marzoli Green Innovation — a continuous process undertaken by the company's research and development department to monitor and analyze ...
Tags: Marzoli, Green Innovation Project, Textile
Italy-based underwriter Generali Group has entered into an agreement to dispose of its US life reinsurance business to SCOR, in a deal valued at nearly $920m in a grouping of cash and collateral. Under the terms of the transaction, nearly ...
Tags: Generali, Life Reinsurance
Fairphone has received enough orders to start production on what it says is a smartphone that will be built according to ethical standards, designed and produced with minimal harm to people and the planet. The Amsterdam-based company ...
Tags: Fairphone, Smartphone
Powerlift has released to the Australian market the Sprint, designed for stock picking/stock replenishment applications involving light loads at low levels. The Powerlift Sprint has a platform height of 3.3m, enabling stock to be picked ...
Tags: Powerlift Sprint, Packaging&Printing, Sprint
Building on the success of the 2012 edition, this year’s Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics will boast 15 halls, with over 3,500 international and domestic exhibitors featured across more than 170,000 sqm from October 21 to 24, ...
Tags: Textile, Strong European
The Executive Committee and the General Assembly of the European Textile Collectivities Association (ACTE) is holding a meeting in Biella, an important wool processing and textile centre in Italy, to discuss the revival of the textile ...
After a hugely successful first year, the International Woolmark Prize (IWP) continues to gain momentum globally as more partners, retailers and designers align themselves and their brands to help promote outstanding and emerging talent ...
Tags: Apparel&Accessories, Woolmark
Dutch food firm Wessanen has completed the acquisition of organic and fair-trade food manufacturer France Alter Eco from a group of private investors for an undisclosed amount. France Alter Eco is involved in the manufacture of organic ...
Tags: Agriculture&Food, Organic Food, Wessanen
Safety Glass Experts (SGE) launches its 2nd Glass Processing Technical Seminar to be held at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Milan on the same week as the Vitrum 2013 Exhibition. The Glass Processing Technical Seminar is a continuation of the ...
Tetra Pak has launched a global marketing campaign, ‘The Pack that Grows Back’ in a bid to educate consumers about renewable packaging. The campaign offers insight to the importance of responsible resource management. The ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, Renewable Packaging
Mobile payments startup Payleven has struck a deal that calls for Apple to start selling chip-and-PIN readers in its retail stores across Europe. Payleven's chip-and-PIN reader can be connected to an iPhone, iPad or Android device via ...
Tags: Computer Products, Mobile payments