December sales for CE and appliance dealers slipped 1.4 percent year over year to $8.4 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. The preliminary figures, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
In yesterday's BBC consumer affairs programme, Fake Britain, several leading furniture and bed retailers were involved in an investigation into product compliance with the UK's stringent fire safety regulations for furniture. Products ...
Tags: Fake Britain, fire safety regulations for furniture, furniture
Prices paid to U.S. producers rose for first time in three months, increasing 0.4% in December, the Labor Department reported Jan. 15. Last month's producer price index reading followed a dip of 0.1% in November. Economists' forecast ...
Tags: Transportation
In November last year, seasonally-adjusted industrial production increased by 1.8 percent in the euro area and by 1.5 percent in the EU-28 as compared with October, while industrial production in October had decreased by 0.8 percent and by ...
Tags: industrial production, Mineral
As reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in 2013 wholesale selling prices of industrial products in Germany were down 0.5 percent compared to 2012. In December last year, the wholesale selling prices of industrial ...
Tags: Metal Prices, Mineral
In November 2013, IVC US announced its plans to build a brand new luxury vinyl plank and tile (LVT) manufacturing facility in the United States. The company has revealed that it will expand on its current site on IVC Drive in Dalton. ...
Tags: IVC US, luxury vinyl plank and tile, manufacturing facility, IVC Drive
BlackBerry will rededicate itself to physical keyboards as the company tries to regain its footing. Out of the four existing BlackBerry 10 smartphones, only the Q10 and Q5 have physical keyboards, and only the former is available ...
Tags: Blackberry, Physical Keyboard
U.S. farmers produced a record-high 13.9 billion bushels of corn last year, but demand from livestock and ethanol producers is helping support corn prices and may provide modest selling opportunities for producers in the coming months, ...
Tags: corn production, corn crop, ethanol usage, feed
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said Monday that the United States was requesting China to enter into a consultation over Chinese duties on U.S. high-tech steel exports following a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute. In ...
Tags: High-Tech Steel, Mineral
Among the main trading partners of the Philippines, China posted the fastest growth in importing Philippine merchandise in November last year, although it remained as the country's third largest export market, after Japan and the United ...
Tags: Philippine Exports, export market
The Humane Society of the United States recently ranked Colorado's animal-protection laws among the top 10 for overall effectiveness. But, this past Friday, the Weld County Prosecutor's Office determined that timing provisions in those laws ...
The bedding industry's rocky road continued in November, when units dipped 2.5% and the dollar value of bedding shipments declined 1.3%. The November results, which reflect the performance of 14 U.S. mattress producers accounting for a ...
Tags: bedding industry, bedding shipments, decline, Bedding Barometer
According to statistics released by the Japan Iron & Steel Federation (JISF), the country’s exports of steel products totaled 3.393 million tons in November, decreasing by 4.3% year on year and falling by 2.5% from a month ago. The ...
Tags: Japan Iron&Steel Federation, exports, steel products, decrease
According to statistics released by the Korea Iron & Steel Association, the country’s output of hot rolled coils (HRC) totaled 2.96 million tons, up by 0.1% from a month ago and soaring by 13% year on year. It’s analyzed that ...
Tags: Korea Iron&Steel Association, output, hot rolled coils, rise
According to data released by Japan’s Ministry of Finance, the country’s H-beam exports totaled 34,200 tons in November, falling by 8.7% from a month ago and jumping by 89.4% year on year. The country’s export prices of ...
Tags: Japan, H-beam exports, export prices