The traditional structure by which payments are made in the UK needs to be vastly simplified, with retailers and other merchants dealing directly with customers' banks - not via "merchant acquirers" and other middlemen. The new structure ...
Tags: Payments Loop, Computer Products
Maidenform Brands, Inc., a global intimate apparel company, reported first quarter 2013 net sales of $131.2 million and a loss per share of $(0.05). "First quarter results were as expected. We remain focused on growing our business and ...
Tags: Apparel, Maidenform Brands
In the week from April 29 to May 5, the scrap indexes continued to decrease on the Orbis Steel Index. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index started to decrease following two weeks of upward movement. The flat rolled product indexes ...
Tags: Scrap, Downward Movement
When eBay launched in 1995, the premise was simple: allow consumers to sell their unwanted goods to others via online auctions. Today, the multi-billion dollar business has localised sites in over 30 countries. Over 190,000 businesses ...
Tags: Toy Industry, Toys
Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) has announced the selection of Gemalto to build its mobile wallet, as it moves closer to bringing its mobile commerce solution to the marketplace. According to MCX, it selected Gemalto for its ...
Metal beds vendors said they are seeing mostly positive reaction to their lines the first few days of High Point Market as buyers look to a shrinking number of resources in the category. Hillsdale Furniture, one of the remaining leaders ...
Tags: Metal Beds, Furniture, Furnishing
Sears Holdings has launched Fulfilled By Sears – a turnkey fulfillment service that offers pay-as-you-go pricing for businesses seeking a simple, cost-effective solution to manage storage, picking, packing and shipping of customer ...
In the week from April 15 to April 21, the scrap indexes moved sideways on the Orbis Steel Index. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index started to increase following three weeks of downward movement. While the Black Sea HRC Export ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
NY futures continued to slip this week, as July gave up 126 points to close at 85.48 cents, while December dropped 58 points to close at 85.08 cents. The futures market remained under pressure as hedge funds continued to exit commodity ...
Petaluma, California, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) April 18, 2013 -- PETALUMA, Calif. – CrossCheck, Inc., a leading provider of check guarantee and electronic check processing services to the automotive industry, ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The centers were formed in Beijing, Shanxi, Guangzhou and Suzhou. In the Forbidden City in Beijing (Jing for short), the best craftsmen used the choicest wood to make Jing-styled furniture under the guidance of the emperors. Furniture ...
Tags: Qing Furniture, Furnishing
In China, women had different kinds of clothes in ancient times. Those clothes changed with the revolution of dynasties. For examples, in the 1920s, the Cheongsam was fashionable among socialites and upperclass women; during the 1960s, very ...
Tags: Women's Clothing, Cheongsam, Apparel
Virtual currency Bitcoin,which last month was trading on the order of roughly$30,is now valued at over$230. On Tokyo-based?Mt.Gox,the most popular place online for people to buy and sell Bitcoins with others around the world in their own ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, webservice
Compostable and sustainable bioplastics manufacturer Cereplast has announced that the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Cereplast Italia has added about seven sales agents to promote its products in Italy and neighboring countries. ...
"A silkworm spins all its silk till its death and a candle won't stop its tears until it is fully burnt." This Tang poem accurately describes the property of the silkworm. Despite technological development, a silkworm can only produce a ...