Ocado plans to develop as a grocery retailer not a logistics firm for hire, insisted its boss, as the firm reported bigger losses in the first half of this year. Ocado is a grocery retailer not a logistics firm for hire, insisted its boss ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Turin-based Italian steel company Tuxor, which is active in the export of construction steel (rebar, mesh, beams, merchant bar, sheet piles) and tubular products, has announced its financial results for 2012. In 2012, the company recorded ...
As of July 1, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 75.28 million mt, indicating an increase of 100,000 mt or 0.13 percent compared to June 24, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. Iron ore inventory at ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Chinese Ports
Shell remains cautious regarding the potential of two onshore oil exploration blocks in Albania despite increasing its stake in the blocks from 50% to 75%, the company said Tuesday. The deal leaves operator, Canada's Petromanas Energy, ...
Tags: Oil Potential, Block Stake Hike
In this fast growing world, people always rush for one work or the other. They forget everything and drive in hurry and sometimes this end up in accidents. In order to avoid such accidents and for one's own safety there are many road safety ...
Tags: Road Safety Devices, Manufacturing&Processing Machinery
Concerns about the global economy and political unrest in Canberra are cruelling appetite for takeovers, with some of the nation's top dealmakers tipping companies to remain on the sidelines until economic clouds clear. In a sign of the ...
Last week, India's export offer of hot dipped galvanized steel products (HDG) fell to US$835~US$839/ton, down by US$5~US$7/ton. However, most buyers are holding a cautious attitude to purchase and Chinese offer for HDG dropped dramatically. ...
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower today as local investors practise caution ahead of expectations the US Federal Reserve could wind back its third round of bond purchases. Despite posting a late surge at the end of last ...
Tags: Investors, Fed Meeting, Sharemarket
Referring to comments made in a conference call covering the supermarket chain's first quarter (Q1) trading performance, Shirley told FoodManufacture.co.uk: "They were talking about the strength of the own-label business, which has ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Retail sales showed positive momentum to varying degrees in May, according to data released today by the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation (NRF). Commerce reported that May retail sales at $421.1 ...
Microsoft today announced it's struck a deal with Best Buy to create 600 stores-within-stores in the U.S. and Canada to sell customers on Windows 8, the Surface tablet line, and new PCs and devices from other OEMs. The move, which ...
Import volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to increase 1.1 percent in June over the same month last year, reflecting modest growth expectations as retailers head toward the back-to-school and holiday ...
Tags: Merchandise Imports, Textile
The Eurozone manufacturing downturn eased for the first time in four months in May. Moreover, all sub indices from the latest survey improved on the earlier flash estimates except suppliers’ delivery times. At a 15-month high of ...
Tags: Manufacturing, May, Eurozone
Europe's refiners are likely to raise production in July because gains in product premiums have recently outpaced crude prices, traders said Thursday. This could mark the end of a period of limited production in Europe that has lasted ...
Tags: European, Chemicals, Production
Non-manufacturing activity continued to remain in growth territory, according to data released by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) today. The ISM's monthly Non-Manufacturing Report on Business said that the index used by the ISM ...