Sharing experience for the promotion of green jobs can play a key role in helping countries to advance towards a greener and a more sustainable future. This is the aim of the ILO Solution Forum that’s taking place this week in ...
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Greif, Inc., a global industrial packaging products and services company, today announced the company will work with Habitat for Humanity International to distribute 100,000 PackH2O collapsible water backpacks in eight developing countries ...
Tags: Transportable Drinking Water Packaging, Packaging, Printing
Intradeco Apparel, Inc., is the recipient of Sears Holdings Corporation's 2013 Partner of the Year Award for Quality Assurance. Sears Holdings, an integrated retailer with over 3,900 full-line and specialty retail stores in the United ...
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The agency has created a new pack design for the snack nut products. The new flavours include oven baked chilli and lime cashews with peanuts and roasted corn and oven baked salted cashews and peanuts. The Fairtrade firm said that the ...
The exports of apparel from Nicaragua, the largest country in the Central American isthmus, to the US have increased marginally to US$ 788.683 million during the first seven months of the current year, according to the Major Shippers ...
Tags: Apparel Exports, Apparel
Slow-Aged rum of Nicaragua, Flor de Cana has unveiled new bottle design and labels in response to the growing demand for its premium and ultra-premium rums. Flor de Cana global brand development manager Paul Caffrey said the sleek new ...
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Textile industry of Nicaragua may lose tariff preferences in the US, which are up for renewal in 2014, as s senior US official has said that such an extension of tariff preferences is not necessary. The textile industry of Nicaragua ...
A trade agreement between the EU on one side and the Central American nations of Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama on the other has set into motion from August 1, 2013. The trade agreement, which was part of an Association Agreement ...
The countries that have signed CAFTA-DR free trade agreement may lose about 100,000 jobs in the textile industry if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is signed in its current form, which allows Vietnam to import raw materials ...
Tags: CAFTA-DR Textile Sector, Textile
Colombia-based Nutresa has agreed to acquire Chile-based food and beverage producer Tresmontes Lucchetti for $758m, as part of its efforts to expand its international footprint. Tresmontes Lucchetti is involved in the manufacture of ...
DHL Express is celebrating its first year as the official logistics partner of charities Free The Children and Me to We. By providing the charities with free shipping, storage and logistics support, DHL has allowed them to allocate 90% of ...
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Textile Exchange, a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating sustainable practices in the textile industry, released the 2011-12 Farm & Fiber Report. The overall findings demonstrate that organic cotton production dropped 8% from ...
Nicaragua ranked among the 11th largest apparel supplying countries to the United States in terms of volume and the 12th largest in value in 2012, thus becoming an important player in the global textile and apparel industry, according to ...
Cotton Council International (CCI), through its COTTON USA Sourcing Program, will host a pavilion at the Apparel Sourcing Show trade fair from May 21-23 to promote U.S. cotton textiles. The Sourcing Program will coordinate with U.S. mills ...
Cotton Council International (CCI) — the Washington-based export promotion arm of The National Cotton Council, Memphis, Tenn. — has announced it will promote U.S. cotton and cotton textiles through its Cotton USA Sourcing ...
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