Frozen and Loom Bands may be topping the Christmas predictions lists this year, but flexibility is the real key to a successful festive period, says our Retail Advisory Board. While it’s no surprise that planning for the festive ...
Tags: toy market, Toys
The International Casual Furnishings Association has named Jackie Hirschhaut as its new executive director following the retirement of long-time head Joseph Logan. Hirschhaut is the vice president of public relations and marketing for the ...
Tags: ICFA, New Executive Director, Furniture
This month, we take an in-depth look at how Minecraft is making a splash in the toy space. The August issue of ToyNews is now available to read online, and on your iPad, here. This month, we take an in-depth look at how Minecraft is ...
Tags: ToyNews Online, Issue, Toys
Pixelligent Technologies, the global manufacturer of PixClear high index materials and nanocrystal dispersions for the solid state lighting and flat panel display industries, announced today that it has joined the Smart Lighting Engineering ...
The International Photovoltaic Equipment Association (IPVEA), the premiere trade organization supporting and enabling Upstream Solar and energy storage professionals worldwide, has announced a new initiative – "IPVEA study on ...
Tags: Global Solar PV Supply Chain, Solar PV, Solar, Energy
The ToyNews Retail Advisory Board gives its views on the first major holiday of this year "Easter is the second biggest selling time behind Christmas," according to some of the UK's leading toy retailers. Traditionally a gifting period ...
Tags: Toys, Easter Toys
The Adidas Group has appointed Mark King, who had been TaylorMade-Adidas Golf's CEO, as president of Adidas Group North America effective June 1, 2014. King succeeds Patrik Nilsson, who has decided to leave the company for personal reasons ...
Tags: Adidas, Sporting Goods, Recreation
SA8000 is an auditable certification standard that encourages organizations to develop, maintain, and apply socially acceptable practices in the workplace. It was developed in 1997 by Social Accountability International (SAI), formerly the ...
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NSF follows the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards development process. Standards are developed by joint committees (balanced stakeholder groups of public health, industry and user representatives). The NSF Council of ...
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The panel of judges for the third Dal-Tile Interior Design Scholarship, presented by the ASID Foundation, have been announced. This year's scholarship competition, titled "Operation Renovation," challenges students to find a residential ...
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At the end of 2013, Consumer Reports made national headlines by reporting that 97 percent of retail chicken breasts were contaminated with some form of gut bacteria. Granted, not all of those bacteria are likely to make consumers sick, but ...
Tags: Chicken, Apples, Oranges, gut bacteria, Salmonella, Food Safety
Add AT&T to the list of high tech companies seeking to increase their visibility in the medical device industry: The Dallas–based telecommunications giant has appointed digital health notable Eric Topol, MD, as its new chief medical ...
Tags: health
If Nuvilex can use the Cell-in-a-Box technology to develop marijuana-based treatments for cancer with the same success it has seen in two independent clinical trials to develop a treatment for advanced inoperable pancreatic cancer, then the ...
Nuvilex has announced that its subsidiary, Medical Marijuana Sciences, plans to use the proprietary cellulose-based live-cell encapsulation technology known as Cell-in-a-Box to develop treatments for serious and deadly forms of cancer. ...
In its endeavor to showcase and promote the country’s upcoming talent, Lakmé Fashion Week is all set to give the young designers the perfect platform they need to unleash their fresh and exciting collections. Introducing ...