Uber has signed a deal with Chinese automaker BYD—Build Your Dream—to let Uber drivers rent or lease BYD's e6 vehicles. They move to potentially challenge Telsa Motors Incand other green-vehicle makers. About 25 BYD cars have ...
China watchers in Washington welcomed the news that the number of small-business registrations in China has risen by almost 50 percent. "Generally, it's a very positive sign," Nicholas Lardy, the Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow at the ...
Tags: China's Legislation Law, taxes
Chicago based Levy Acquisition has agreed to buy Mexican-American fast-food chain Del Taco, in a $500m deal. The blank-check acquisition firm Levy Acquisition, which is controlled by restaurateur Larry Levy, will now change its name to ...
Tags: Levy Acquisition, fast-food
The three North American trade fairs, Texworld USA, International Apparel Sourcing Show and Home Textiles Sourcing Expo, have made it to the just-released Trade Show Executive (TSE) magazine’s Fastest 50 Class of 2014 list. The ...
Tags: Apparel Sourcing Show, Textiles Sourcing Expo, Apparel
Chivas Regal, a brand owned by French wines and spirits producer Pernod Ricard, has expanded its whiskey range with the introduction of new Chivas Regal Extra in the US. Made from Chivas' house whiskies that have matured in Oloroso sherry ...
Tags: French wines, spirits
Toyota has introduced the refreshed version of Toyota Avalon along with special edition of Camry and Corolla at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show. The 2016 version of the Toyota Avalon is a mid-size premium car that features new styling and ...
Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut has agreed to acquire industrial chocolate manufacturing assets from US-based World's Finest Chocolate. Both the companies have signed a new long-term outsourcing agreement to this effect. As per ...
Tags: industrial chocolate, Food
US-based brewery Revolution Brewing is planning to expand its production facility in Chicago, a move that will triple the brewery's production capacity. The expansion will see the installation of a new 120-barrel brewhouse, several ...
Hyundai is planning to showcase HCD-15 Santa Cruz Concept, Tucson Fuel Cell and SEMA vehicles along with new technology and design by the company at the Chicago Auto Show. According to Hyundai, the company will unveil a new version of ...
Winds of change will be blowing into the Chicago Auto Show. Toyota’s Camry mid-size sedan, the best-selling car in America for the past 13 years, and Corolla compact sedan, the world’s best-selling car of all time, will debut ...
Tags: Sporty Camry, Toyota
The all-new 2016 Toyota Tacoma is coming to Chicago along with several eye-popping concepts and specialty vehicles that are sure to keep cameras clicking around the Toyota exhibit at the Chicago Auto Show. Toyota's presentation at McCormick ...
Tags: Toyota Tacoma, Chicago Auto Show, Auto
International Flavors & Fragrances has opened a new facility in Chicago city, in the US state of Illinois. With a culinary center and an advanced application and flavor creation laboratories, the facility will offer flavors which will ...
Tags: fragrances, Flavors
The University of Illinois has entered into an agreement with Traffic Powered Renewable Energy System (TPRES) maker New Energy Innovations to improve new traffic powered sustainable source. The sustainable source of clean energy will be ...
Tags: Traffic Powered Energy, New Energy
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today recognized the accomplishments of organizations and businesses in the Great Lakes region participating in EPA's Food Recovery Challenge program. EPA works with organizations through the Food ...
Tags: supermarket chain, Agriculture
Today, Metromile and Uber announced an innovative partnership to provide variably-priced, pay-per-mile auto insurance for drivers who use Uber's rideshare platform. The two companies have jointly developed the first technology solution that ...
Tags: Pay-Per-Mile Insurance, Auto