After years of focus on cost reductions and operational efficiencies, executives and producers in the food and beverage industry are feeling confident again, according to the 2013 Grant Thornton Global Food and Beverage study "Hunger for ...
Despite all the negativity on the news, and the uncertainty involving the US debt ceiling, most trends are pointing to a steadily growing economy that bodes well for trucking's future. That was the synopsis from leading economists and ...
Tags: economy
China will continue to pursue reforms to improve the quality and efficiency of economic development, while maintaining macroeconomic stability, said China 's central bank deputy chief on Saturday. "The Chinese economy maintained a ...
Tags: Quality of Growth
"What's the one thing that you need to be really, really worried about over the next two weeks," Eric Starks, president of FTR Associates, asked attendees at the 27th Annual Conference on Transportation Innovation and Technology yesterday. ...
Tags: Ceiling, Port Activity
Investment in equipment and software is expected to grow 3.3% in 2013, according to the Q4 update to the 2013 Equipment Leasing & Finance U.S. Economic Outlook released by the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation. Equipment and software ...
The global apparent steel demand growth expectation for 2013 of worldsteel has been revised upwards today, October 7, to 3.1 percent to 1.475 billion metric tons, up from 2.9 percent in the association's short range outlook published back ...
Tags: Steel Demand, Steel Industry
Russia's President Vladimir Putin warned world leaders at the G20 Summit that economic risks remained. "Our main task is returning the global economy towards steady and balanced growth. This task has unfortunately not been resolved. ...
Tags: Economic Crisis, economy
Sunday Sept. 29 2013, is a new day for China as it marks the official launch of the much anticipated Shanghai Free Trade Zone. Sunday is also International Coffee Day. Just as UK coffee houses in an earlier age were the places where people ...
Tags: Free Trade, Coffee
NSF International, a global independent public health organization that writes standards, and tests and certifies products for the commercial and consumer goods, health sciences, food and water industries, will sponsor the American National ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
I'm at the APICS fall conference in Orlando this week, rubbing shoulders with folks from areas of the supply chain we don't normally talk to in Modern. APICS's roots are in operations and as such there are a number of manufacturing ...
In the past 20 years, the world has become significantly more complex, more unsettled and less predictable. The American military coined the acronym VUCA to describe this trend: "volatile", "uncertain", "complex" and "ambiguous". In this ...
It is reported that IREPAS, International Rebar Producers and Exporters Association, has predicted that global rebar and wire rod demand is growing, with further growth also expected next year. Mr. Marti who was named as the new chairman of ...
Boskalis acquires EUR 130 million port dredging project in St Petersburg, Russia Wednesday Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has been awarded a contract by CJSC Baltstroy for the dredging and construction of the Bronka Port ...
Tags: Transportation, Service
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) today released its “Cities as a Lab: Designing the Innovation Economy” report that demonstrates how design can foster innovative approaches to American cities’ changing needs. ...
Zumbotel 1Q13 Financial Result Highlights: Dynamic growth with LED products continues (+49.7%) First-quarter revenues 4.4% down at EUR 309.3 million (prior year: EUR 323.4 million) Adjusted EBIT rises 40.7% to EUR 17.7 million (prior ...
Tags: LED, LED lighting, Lights, Lighting