The results of the quarterly Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI) Business Outlook point to a degree of renewed momentum in manufacturing activity over the next three to six months. The survey's composite index is ...
The online shopping market in Australia continues to grow strongly and in 2013 is expected to account for 7% of total retail sales. Total online spending is forecast to amount to $18.3 billion in 2013, with the average annual spend online ...
Tags: Aussie Retail Sales, Apparel
The ability of OPEC to influence the balance of crude markets is diminishing in the face of growing US oil production, with 2013 expected to be a rare instance of a year-on-year decline in the call on the producer group to maintain balanced ...
Tags: Chemicals
AUSTRALIAN shares have closed slightly higher, boosted by gains from resource companies on the back of record production results from mining heavyweight Rio Tinto. Rio has announced it had increased iron ore production by six per cent to ...
US-based food processing company Wright Foods is set to expand its food processing and packaging operation in Montgomery County, North Carolina, with an investment of $53m over the next five years. The project has been announced by ...
Tags: Wright Foods, food
DENSO Products and Services Americas Inc. has added online claim forms and tracking tools, reward categories, and extra points for enrolling in the My DENSO Rewards program. The program is for distributors and professional technicians who ...
In June 2013, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 1,882.7 billion yuan, up by 13.3 percent year-on-year (nominal growth rate. The real growth rate was 11.7 percent. The follows are nominal growth rates if there’s no ...
Tags: Total Retail Sales, Consumer Goods
A loft bed is a very popular solution for a child's bedroom, because it packs a lot of functionality in a small space. Depending on the child's age, preferences or needs a loft bed can provide study areas, storage, or a place to play. ...
Tags: bed, Furniture, Furnishing, loft bed
The turnover rate at both large and small truckload carriers rose in the first quarter of 2013 due to the improving economy and continued competition for drivers, according to the latest figures from the American Trucking Associations. ...
Tags: turnover rate, Auto Parts
Imagine if in just one year you saw 97 percent of your staff leave. 97 percent. Well, as the American Trucking Associations (ATA) reports, that isn't an imaginary figure any more. In the most recent version of the ATA's Trucking Activity ...
Tags: Transportation, Trucking
Airports and the Aviation industry require specialised security solutions and in an age of elevated threat, the identification of suspicious activity amongst passengers and staff in and surrounding Airports is imperative. Oncam Grandeye ...
Tags: Security, Protection
Samsung's army of Android mobile devices have finally overtaken Apple's iOS in terms of global mobile web usage, according to a survey carried out by web analytics firm StarCounter. In June 2013, claims the survey, Samsung bounded ahead ...
Tags: Mobile Device, Web Use, Samsung
Shale gas production in the UK could boost tax revenues and improve the nation's trade balance, but is unlikely to reduce gas prices, and is no short-term fix for national energy needs, according to Howard Rogers of the Oxford Institute for ...
The opening celebration of the test bay on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 was the crowning event of Wilo s construction project in Hof. In 2011 the company began building a new hall here with a total area of 1500 square metres as a place to test ...
Tags: Processing Machinery
The importance of the textile industry for the growth of fashion and apparel sector was highlighted by Francesc García-Planas, vice president of Texfor, the Confederation of the Spanish Textile Industry, at the first edition of ...
Tags: Fashion Industry, Textile Sector