Chinese and Thai venture SAIC Motor-CP will manufacture MG brand eco-cars at a new plant to be built in Thailand next year. Having obtained regulatory approvals earlier this week, the project will witness an investment of Thb30bn in the ...
Toyota Motor will add new adaptive high beam technology to its vehicles that enables more precise control of light distribution through independent LED control. The new LED Array Adaptive High Beam System (LED Array AHS) uses multiple ...
Alice Taylor has been awarded the Rising star accolade at the annual Chicago Toy and Game Group ceremony. The inventor’s community has a new rising star among its ranks. The Chicago Toy and Game Group has crowned the year’s ...
Tags: Game Inventor, Year Awards, Toys
French yogurt maker Danone is contemplating sale of its 20% stake in Tokyo based dairy-drink producer Yakult Honsha, which if materialised, can raise cash for any future acquisitions by Danone. Bloomberg reported that Danone already had ...
Tags: Danone, Yakult, Agriculture
Truett-Hurst announced that Marcus Benedetti has been elected to the Board of Directors, effective 20 November 2014. As previously reported, Truett-Hurst, Inc. held its 2014 Annual Stockholder meeting on November 20, 2014. Among other ...
Tags: Independent Director, Agriculture
The Sierra Club is joining Ford Motor Company and SunPower’s Drive Green for Life program to help more Americans move toward emissions-free driving. Drive Green for Life offers Ford customers who own electrified plug-in vehicles, ...
Tags: emissions-free driving, Drive Green, Auto
The profits of Chinese industrial businesses recorded a drop of 2.1 percent year on year, hitting 575.47 billion yuan (94.34 billion U.S. dollars) in October, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday. Profits rose 0.4 percent in ...
Tags: Industrial Profits, product prices
The laser diode market will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.6% from 2014 to 2020, according to the report ‘Laser Diode Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2014 – ...
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DSW Inc. reported third-quarter earnings declined 9.8 percent to $49.6 million, or 55 cents a share. But earnings came in better than Wall Street estimates and sales in all major categories accelerated compared to the first half. Comparable ...
Tags: women's footwear, Sporting Goods
China-based Xery 3D Printing Science & Technology (Anhui), which was founded in 2013, has an annual production capacity of 50,000 FDM (fused deposition modeling) home-use 3D printers, 20,000 FDM business-use units, 5,000 SLS (selective ...
Tags: 3D Printer, 3D Printing
The hog market has been a good place to be in the last year. Live hog prices in the last few months have trended almost $20 a head higher than the same period in 2013. So, what's the outlook heading into winter? Feed supplies remain low, ...
Tags: hog market, Agriculture
Just like Australia Post, the UK's Royal Mail is experiencing a loss of profitability from the parcel boom and mail bust. It is, however, also looking down the barrel of Amazon’s own delivery network, which threatens future growth ...
Tags: Royal Mail, Parcel Pinch, Service
In July 2014 Huhtamaki announced that as a result of its growing strategic focus on food packaging it had started to evaluate options regarding its films business. The annual net sales of the films segment were €187m in 2013 and the ...
Tags: Films Business, Packaging
Over half (53%) of life sciences and healthcare manufacturers prioritise quality assurance over cost in selecting their supply chain partner, and the industry is on the fence (48% vs. 52%) about whether the pharmaceutical industry will soon ...
Tags: Healthcare, Service
New research by Beyond Zero Emissions, referenced by Ross Garnaut at the recent Melbourne Economic Forum, details what it calls “the vast gap between Australian government projections and the realities of trade in a carbon-constrained ...
Tags: Transport Jobs, Risk