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
UK meat firm Cranswick is likely to reap strategic benefit from the merger of China’s largest meat processor and pig producer, Shuanghui International, with the world’s largest pork processor North America’s Smithfield ...
The imports of textiles and apparels by Brazil grew by 25.4 percent year-on-year in value and 17.3 percent year-on-year in volume, amounting to 104,800 tons in April 2013, according to the latest data. In the clothing sub-sector, ...
MOBILE phone pioneer Motorola says it's opening a manufacturing facility that will produce the first smartphone ever assembled in the US - its new flagship device, Moto X. The Texas site was once used by fellow phone manufacturer Nokia, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Motorola, US
Peugeot Brazil has launched an entertaining Wacky Races-inspired advertising campaign for its new Peugeot 208 city car. The 90-second spot stars a five-door version of the French brand’s new hatchback in a race against the ...
Tags: Peugeot 208, Wacky Races
Facing slowdown in exports to traditional Western Europe market, which is passing through financial crisis, Nepali handicraft exporters were hunting for new destinations for exports, and have identified Brazil, East Europe, Mexico and ...
Tags: Nepali Handicraft, Textile Markets
It’s reported that the Brazilian steelmakers may fail to raise prices for steel flat products due to weak steel prices in international market and low-priced imports into the Brazilian market. In the first quarter of ...
Tags: Steelmakers, Prices, Brazilian
According to data released by foreign trade ministry Secex, Brazil's exports of carbon steel wire rod and rebar jumped in April. The country's exports of wire rod surged by 342% from a month ago to 34,685 tons in April. In April, the ...
Tags: Wire Rod, Metallurgy, Mineral
Tons Lightology, which develops commercial LED lighting fixtures for OEM and own-brand sale, aims to increase the proportion of total revenues from own-brand sales from 10% in 2012 to 15% in 2013 through focusing marketing in Japan, China, ...
Tags: Tons Lightology, LED Lighting
German automobile manufacturer Daimler's subsidiary Mercedes-Benz do Brasil has secured a contract to deliver 80 Mercedes-Benz buses in Brazil. Under the contract, Mercedes-Benz do Brasil will supply 50 units of the OF 1721model buses to ...
Tags: Daimler, Mercedes-Benz Buses
World 2013/14 cotton trade is forecast to decline 12 percent from a year ago, to 39.5 million bales, due to a combination of lower exportable supplies and China’s policy-driven lower demand for foreign cotton. The 2013/14 ...
Australia-based iron ore company Centaurus Metals Limited has announced that it will commission its flagship Jambreiro iron ore project in Brazil in mid-2014 instead of at the end of 2013 as originally planned. Centaurus said that it has ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
H.B. Fuller Company has signed an agreement to purchase adhesives company Plexbond Quimica, S/A, a provider of chemical polyurethane specialties and polyester resins. This business generated nearly $20 million in revenue for the 2012 fiscal ...
Tags: Construction, adhesives
According to the statistics provided by Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase), in April this year Brazil's iron ore exports amounted to 19.18 million metric tons, rising by 1.2 percent ...
Laurent Lamothe, the Prime Minister of Haiti, has urged Brazilian companies operating in the textile and garment sector to invest in Haiti. Paying an official visit to Brazil, Prime Minister Lamothe met Mr. Paulo Skaf, president ...
Tags: Haitian PM, Apparel, Brazilian