Brazil Fast Food Corp, one of the largest food service groups in Brazil with 1,235 points of sale, operating under (i) the Bob's brand, (ii) the Yoggi brand, (iii) KFC and Pizza Hut São Paulo as franchisee of Yum! Brands, and (iv) ...
Tags: Brazil Fast Food, Agriculture, Food
The National Retail Federation announced that Senator Mark Warner, D-Va. and Representative John Kline, R-Minn., have been recognized as NRF’s Legislators of the Year. The awards presentation was made during the Retail Advocates ...
Tags: NRF, Legislators of The Year, Apparel
Russian steel giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that its Turkey-based subsidiary MMK Metalurji's finished steel output decreased by 3.5 percent year on year to 334,000 mt in the first half of this year. In the ...
Tags: MMK Metalurji's Finished Steel Output, Decreased, Russian
With a new government in power in India following last month's elections, Chinese iron ore importers are waiting to see if any policy changes will be forthcoming that could lead to a hike in their imports. India was China's third-largest ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron Ore
Brazil’s civil construction union SindusCon-SP sees a lower increase in the sector’s gross domestic product (GDP), it said, adding the growth in 2014 would be between 1 and 2 percent, year on year. The forecast is below the 2.8 ...
Sentiment in India following the general elections appears bullish, boding well for the Indonesian thermal coal market, but there is no near-term catalyst being seen to drive Chinese demand up, sources said Friday. "It would still require ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Mineral
Production cuts at Indonesian thermal coal mines could only at best help stabilize prices but further gains would be capped by sagging demand from both India and China in the spot market, sources said Wednesday. A Singapore-based trader ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, thermal coal mines
Indonesian thermal coal prices were stable to higher on Monday with very few deals reported as the market awaits direction from India after the end of its month-long elections later this week, sources said. "Prices have been more or less ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Indian demand
We had the opportunity to speak with Kim Marti Subirana from Celsa Group, the president of IREPAS, during the SteelOrbis Spring 2014 Conference & 70th IREPAS Meeting held on March 30-April 1 in Barcelona. Mr. Marti, how do you view the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel
The UK is forecast to be the largest solar photovoltaic (PV) market in Europe in 2014, fuelled by the rapid growth in ground-mounted solar PV farms. More than 120 large-scale solar PV farms in the UK have recently received project-planning ...
Tags: PV Solarbuzz, Lights, Lighting, PV, Solar
Russian steel giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that its Turkey-based subsidiary MMK Metalurji's finished steel output decreased by 16 percent year on year to 149,000 mt in the first quarter this year. In the given ...
Tags: steel giant, Iron, Steel
India's natural gas demand is forecast to more than double to 516.97 million cubic meters/day in fiscal 2021-22, according to a report commissioned by an oil ministry regulatory body. Demand in fiscal 2016-17 is forecast at 378.06 million ...
Tags: Natural Gas, natural gas demand
UK onshore explorer Egdon Resources said Friday it could have 18 Tcf of gas initially in place in shale gas reserves in its licenses within the Bowland-Hodder shale sequence in northern England. That is equivalent to around 510 billion ...
Tags: shale gas, UK gas consumption
In a move that did not entirely come as a surprise, India's Election Commission earlier this week asked the incumbent government to defer a hike in the wellhead price of natural gas that was due to be implemented on April 1. But analysts ...
Tags: Natural Gas, gas pricing, OIL's production
The changing political situations in the Middle East are focusing attention on possibly significant increases in energy production, but countries that could produce that energy still face significant hurdles, according to a panel of Middle ...
Tags: energy production, Mineral