Ford announced that it will be investing $1.6b in San Luis Potosi in Mexico to build small cars. Construction of this factory is expected to begin in mid-2016 and the production is scheduled to begin in 2018. The American automaker ...
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The move by the Government will see the current minimum wage upped from £6.70 per hour to £7.20 this month. But the news has our indie retail panel calling for a reassessment of 'already squeezed margins'. The livng wage ...
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Yue Yuen reported revenues rose 5.3 percent to $8.43 billion in 2015, led by growth in its network of retail stores. Net pProfits grew 17.9 percent Highlights Revenue up 5.3 percent to US$8.43 billion for the year ended December 31, ...
Robot sales in China are set to almost triple by 2018. Data shows annual robot sales in China may jump to 150-thousand by the end of 2018, up from 57-thousand last year. The country is trying to modernize its industrial production and ...
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China's economy has entered a "new normal" and those fretting over disappointing data in traditional sectors, will have to adapt. The structure of China's economy has changed and traditional measurements, including GDP growth and ...
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he Bank of Japan (BOJ) announced on Friday it would expand the size of its asset purchasing program while maintaining the same size of the monetary base, in a bid to drive wages higher and boost business spending, two mainstays of the ...
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Several large lighting brands have made large scale recalls over the past three months in the North America market, such as Cree, Osram Sylvania and IKEA. Even large lighting brands are not exempt from occasional faulty products. LEDinside ...
China will adjust its income distribution system and narrow the income gap in the next five years, a document from the Communist Party of China (CPC) said Tuesday. China's aims to "significantly" increase the wages of the low-income ...
On October 4, 2015, Ministers of the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries announced conclusion of their negotiations. The summary of the TPP Agreement is as follows: Disclaimer: The Following Summary of the Trans-Pacific ...
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Portland State University has appointed Jennifer Nolfi as the new director of Portland State University’s Athletic and Outdoor Industry Program. Nolfi, whose business experience has spanned the public and private sectors over the last ...
German fine chocolate producer Vivani, which is an arm of EcoFinia, has selected NatureFlex films, developed by Innovia Films, to wrap its iChoc bars. iChoc, stated to be the latest range of Vegan Chocolate, was launched at BioFach and ...
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Bangladesh foreign minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali has urged the western buyers to pay little bit more for Bangladeshi products. The minister said this while speaking to a visiting Parliamentary delegation of Germany. The delegation ...
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the foreign buyers to raise the price of garment products, saying that this money would be spent for further welfare of the country's four million readymade garment (RMG) workers, the ...
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Cambodia’s garment and footwear sector has continued to perform solidly, with exports growing by 10.6 per cent over the year to the first quarter of 2015, according to the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) new bulletin ...
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Credit rating agency India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) has maintained an overall stable outlook for the cotton textile sector for FY16. This is led by stable spinning margins in the cotton yarn segment, range-bound cotton prices and ...
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