Class 8 truck orders finished 2013 up 17% compared to 2012, while medium-duty orders were up 10%. The year was closed out on a high note, with December Class 8 orders up 50%, representing the strongest month for orders since March 2006. ...
Tags: Transportation, Truck
The Home Furnishings Temporary Exhibits located on the second floor of Building B at the World Market Center in Las Vegas will feature the largest-ever roster of exhibitors at the Winter 2014 Las Vegas Market, running January 26 to 30. ...
Tags: exhibition, wood furniture
Thursday, January 16, 2014: International Market Centers has reported the highest-ever occupancy in its furniture and mattress space leading up to the Winter Las Vegas Market, fueled by a growing demand among its existing base of tenants ...
US-based Merrell Food Group, along with its manufacturing partner Rise’n Roll Specialties, is recalling ‘Crunch’N Nutter Mixed Nut’ candy due to presence of undeclared peanut allergen. The company has issued ...
Tags: Merrell Food, Candy, Peanut Allergen
While the Japanese government struck a more upbeat chord in its January economic report, measures of consumer confidence paint a grimmer picture of things further on, as a tax hike in April threatens to put the breaks on household spending. ...
Tags: economic report, Japan's Economy
Kaiser Health News staff writer Anna Gorman, working in collaboration with USA Today, reports: "On a recent winter morning, health outreach worker Christopher Mack walked through the streets and alleys of the city's Skid Row, passing a man ...
The personal data of at least 20 million bank and credit card users in South Korea has been leaked, state regulators said Sunday, one of the country's biggest ever breaches. Many major firms in the South have seen customers' data leaked ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
International Market Centers officials say the Las Vegas Market has reached 96% occupancy for the Jan. 26-Jan. 30 show. The 96.4% occupancy on 21 floors is the highest level for permanent floors since Building C opened in 2008. A floor of ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Today's headlines include reports about the announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services that people who get their health insurance through high-risk insurance pools will have an extra two months before this program ends. ...
Tags: high-risk insurance, White House, Obamacare, Health Law
US-based medical device company Acumed has launched scapho-lunate inter carpal (SLIC) screw system, a new device for stabilizing the bones during the repair and healing of the scapho-lunate interosseous ligament. Acumed SLIC screw ...
Tags: Inter Carpal Screw, Screw System
Over the last few months, fuel prices have been quite different in Western and Easter Canada, the Manitoba Trucking Association (MTA) claims. Fuel prices are rising at a rapid pace and over the past several months, trucking companies have ...
After day-long testimony very similar to last October’s hearing examiner proceedings for a state ground water discharge permit, a state judgesaid Monday that he would issue an order Friday on whether to lift a temporary restraining ...
Tags: slaughter horses, temporary restraining order, Valley Meat, Court Judge
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 ...
Solid wood case goods producer Copeland Furniture is returning to the Las Vegas Market this month in a 2,200-square-foot showroom. The new showroom, World Market Center B-726, will help the company reach more designers and furniture ...
Tags: Copeland Furniture, Las Vegas Market, return, World Market Center B-726
Scientists have made an important advance in understanding how a subset of bacterial cells escape being killed by many antibiotics. Cells become "persisters" by entering a state in which they stop replicating and are able to tolerate ...
Tags: Bacterial Cells, Antibiotics, Subset of Bacterial Cells