China's total available crude supply significantly exceeded refinery throughput in December, suggesting 915,000 b/d of crude oil was added to storage during the month, although the total stockbuild during 2014 averaged just over 300,000 ...
GS1 US, which serves more than 2 million businesses in 25 industries in the United States by facilitating industry initiatives and providing education and support, has unveiled a new guideline called the ‘Tagged Item Performance ...
Deckers Brands, which owns the Ugg, Teva, Sanuk, Ahnu and Hoka One One brands, has appointed David E. Lafitte chief operating officer (COO), effective Feb. 2. Lafitte previously served as the company's general counsel and replaces Zohar ...
Tags: manufacturing, IT, inventory management, Sporting Goods
vPersonalize Inc., a pioneer in full custom, design-your-own apparel, and accessories, has launched its next generation design software that provides advanced features for designers to visualize, produce, and deliver products on-demand to ...
Tags: 3D visualization, design software, Textile
Despite a projected 5.4 percent increase in global semiconductor revenue in 2015, this is down from 7.9 percent growth in 2014, according to Gartner Inc. The forecast is also down from the previous quarter’s forecast of 5.8 percent ...
Tags: LED lighting, Electrical
TTI, Inc., the world’s leading specialist distributor of passive, connector, electromechanical and discrete components, now stocks Vishay’s new AY2 series of AEC-Q200-qualified, AC-line-rated ceramic disc safetyClass X ...
Tags: connector, electromechanical, discrete components, Electrical
Journelle, a seller of high-end innerwear and loungewear, and Alton Lane, a maker of men’s custom-tailored clothing, have deployed NetSuite to run their core retail business processes from order management, inventory management, ...
As the world's biggest auto market in 2014, China's auto sales continued to expand to strengthen its position. With 23.49 million units sold approximately, a year on year increase of 6.9 percent, the auto sector seemed to play a big role in ...
Tags: auto market, auto sales
PPG Industries reported fourth quarter 2014 net sales from continuing operations of $3.71 billion, up $207 million, or 6 percent, versus the prior-year figure of $3.5 billion. Net sales in local currencies grew 10 percent year-over-year, ...
Tags: portfolio management, earnings-accretive cash deployment, Construction
CheckPoint Systems, a leading global supplier of merchandise availability solutions for the retail industry, has launched new RFID labels that are certified by ARC at the Auburn University RFID Lab for four apparel categories, in order to ...
Tags: apparel categories, retail industry, Textile
Attune Consulting, a premier global solutions provider to the fashion and lifestyle industries, has launched Attune Fashion Suite, a set of pre-configured solutions that are deployable in the cloud or on premise for omnichannel retail ...
Jamba Juice, a retailer of freshly-squeezed juice, announced today that it is deploying software from ArrowStream, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider for food service supply chains to further improve and optimize the company’s ...
Tags: freshly-squeezed juice, supply chain software, Agriculture
Genesco Inc. announced that comparable sales, including both stores and direct sales, increased 10 percent for the quarter-to-date period ended Jan. 3, from the equivalent period last year. Same store sales increased 9 percent and sales ...
Last year, Mohawk Industries told its aligned dealers with the recession over they needed to “Own the Moment.” For 2015, executives said now it’s time to “Own the Experience” as the industry’s largest ...
Tags: sales, marketing, Construction
The overall PV market price in the first quarter of 2015 is expected to remain constant until the end of the Lunar New Year. Afterwards, shipment demand will decrease and pricing will drop. The beginning of the holiday season in China meets ...
Tags: solar energy, Lights