Deloitte continuing to search for a buyer after chain fell into administration in June. Deloitte has closed a further ten ModelZone stores while continuing to look for a buyer. The toy and hobby specialist collapsed into administration ...
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Spin Master is taking its first solely owned property Paw Patrol to Nickelodeon this fall. The show is based on a concept from Bob the Builder creator Keith Chapman and will premiere in the US in August, then Canada in September, before ...
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The recent crackdown on a major rare earth smuggling case has again raised concerns about China's illegal rare earth mining and trading. In November,customs of Baotou City in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,the world's ...
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Along with red, green is the color of this holiday season. And bright green is showing up in more than just decorations. ?In Guangdong Province in Southern China, ten transgenic piglets have been born this year, six of them since August, ...
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Data from NASA's AIM spacecraft show that noctilucent clouds are like a great "geophysical light bulb." They turn on every year in late spring, reaching almost full intensity over a period of no more than 5 to 10 days. As December ...
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Editor's note: One of our Food Safety News Christmas traditions is to annually recognize those who have been "naughty" and those who have been "nice" – from a strictly food safety perspective, of course. This year, we've opted to ...
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Construction commenced on December 19 on the new sintering plant project of Baosteel Zhanjiang Iron and Steel Co., the Zhanjiang, Guangdong-based subsidiary of Chinese steel giant Baosteel, as announced by Beijing-based state-owned China ...
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Auction allows the industry to bid on airtime, catalogue and online slots donated by the initiative's media sponsors, The Toy Trust Media Auction opened last week, and Flair has kicked off the bidding. The Media Auction allows the ...
Currently, monoclonal antibody agents have been successfully used in the treatment of tumors, cancers and other serious diseases as a heavyweight in the biopharmaceutical industry. In 2009-2012, the market size of monoclonal antibody agents ...
An unusual surge in public construction in October pushed total construction spending to its highest level since May 2009 despite a dip in both private residential and nonresidential activity, according to an analysis of new Census Bureau ...
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North Carolina is famous for its high-tech Research Triangle, but lately it seems that state government IT projects are bound for IT's equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle. As you may remember from an earlier Risk Factor story on state ...
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Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced that its Cherepovets Steel Mill achieved a record pre-painted galvanized iron (PPGI) production volume of 400,000 mt during the January-November period of the current year, up 14.7 percent compared ...
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The mood among consumers in Germany is again remarkably good as 2013 draws to a close. Further increases were recorded in economic expectations and willingness to buy. Income expectations declined slightly from a high level. Following a ...
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Tupelo Furniture Market officials say preregistrations for the Feb. 6-9 trade show are up 63% as of Dec. 17. According to market President Kevin Seddon, nearly 10,000 have registered for the event. "We are extremely satisfied with the ...
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Petrobras announces that the first extension well 3-BRSA-1194-SES (3-SES-178) drilled in the Moita Bonita area, on concession BM-SEAL-10, has confirmed the extension of the gas and light oil discovery, as released to the market on August ...