McArthurGlen’s Ashford Designer Outlet will welcome American fashion and lifestyle giant Abercrombie & Fitch on 9 May, as they make their designer outlet debut in the European market. Reflecting Abercrombie & Fitch’s all - ...
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France-based pipe manufacturer Vallourec has announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2013. According to Vallourec's report, in the first quarter this year the company registered a net profit of €35 million, ...
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According to Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in March this year industrial producer prices decreased by 0.2 percent in the euro area and in the European Union (EU-27) month on month. Compared to March last ...
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The European Steel Association (EUROFER) has stated that recent data on industrial production and unemployment signal that the EU economy continued to weaken in the first months of 2013, while the performance gap between Germany on the one ...
German manufacturer of aerosol packaging components the Lindal Group has launched its new Global Innovation Center in Briey, France. This facility will tap the company's aerosol expertise and support more customers in development of new ...
The UK’s largest poultry processor Moy Park has announced a strong recovery in trading performance for last year, with pre-profits up to 24.4M for 2012 for 2012, compared with 4.8M in 2011. Moy Park delivered a strong performance in ...
The downturn in the euro zone manufacturing sector deepened at the start of the second quarter of the year. Markit's Eurozone Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) was at 46.7 points in April, down slightly from 46.8 in March but ...
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According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in March this year Turkey's stainless flat steel imports rose by 18.9 percent compared to the previous month and were up 6.8 percent compared to March 2012, ...
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Arkema has commercialised a grade of acrylic resin that is better suited to handle modern LED lighting. Arkema – based in Colombes, France, with U.S. headquarters in Philadelphia — began making Plexiglas Diffuse-brand resins ...
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Chris Bedford, managing director (MD) of Open Technology, which specialises in providing energy-saving lighting solutions, has said businesses should take the lead when it comes to changing our lighting habits, given that they stand to make ...
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Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division), has finalised the ZAR 1,000,000,000(more than $100m) solar ...
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Totem, Meteorite and Abyss may all sound like names from an ancient time or a far away land. ?And truthfully they are, however they also exhibit the magical world of the lighting designer, Mathieu Lustrerie's light collection. Mathieu uses ...
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In the 17th century, which has been called "the century of magnificent beds", the style a la duchesse, with tester and curtains only at the head, replaced the more enclosed beds in France, though they lasted much longer in England. Louis ...
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The ancient Germans lay on the floor on beds of leaves covered with skins, or in a kind of shallow chest filled with leaves and moss. In the early Middle Ages they laid carpets on the floor or on a bench against the wall, placed upon them ...
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Ancient world Early beds were little more than piles of straw or some other natural material (e.g. a heap of palm leaves, animal skins or dried bracken). An important change was raising them off the ground, to avoid drafts, dirt, and ...