With the global economy on the mend, Taiwan's machinery exports for the first two months of this year totaled US$2.854 billion, up 7.5% from the same period of last year, according to the latest statistics by Ministry of Economic Affairs ...
Tags: taiwan, Machinery, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery
Germany-based Vion Zeven has unveiled plans to shut its pork slaughter and processing plant in Lingen, as the facility has been incurring higher losses in the recent past. In 2013, the slaughtering operations at the plant dropped by 30% ...
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Recently, the United Nations, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, and other world organization said that will increase global growth expectations, this means the optimistic prospects of the global economic recovery. ...
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The New York Times: Health, Work, Lies On Wednesday, Douglas Elmendorf, the director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, said the obvious: losing your job and choosing to work less aren't the same thing. If you lose your job, ...
Tags: Health, Labor Market, Obamacare, 'Narrow Networks'
Finland-based stainless steel producer Outokumpu has announced that it has completed the strategic review of its thin and precision strip operations in Kloster and Nyby, Sweden and in Dahlerbrück, Germany, launched in June 2013 with ...
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The Ifo Indicator for the world economic climate continued to rise. Assessments of the current economic situation were more positive than three months ago. The six-month economic outlook remains bright. The world economy is expected to gain ...
Tags: Service
The mood of German consumers was notably buoyant at the start of 2014. Both economic and income expectations as well as willingness to buy improved, in part quite considerably. Following a revised value of 7.7 points in January, the overall ...
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Firstly, the very good news. Colorpak is nearing the end of its rationalisation program following its 2011 acquisition of Carter Holt Harvey. Managing director, Alex Commins, stated, "The plant rationalisation activities will be completed ...
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Firstly, the very good news. Colorpak is nearing the end of its rationalisation program following its 2011 acquisition of Carter Holt Harvey. Managing director, Alex Commins, stated, "The plant rationalisation activities will be completed ...
Tags: Colorpak
In the backdrop of a weak economic scenario in Europe, German menswear fashion company Ahelrs AG has posted lower-than-expected preliminary unaudited sales and profit numbers for full year 2012-13. The company, which is one of the ...
Tags: menswear, domestic consumption
U.S. cotton futures could “spend a lot of time” in a trading range between 76 cents and 88 cents a pound for the remainder of the 2013-2014 marketing year, which is not much above the latest close of 86.8 cents per pound (Jan. ...
Mullen Group announced this week its board has approved its 2014 capital budget of $100 million, about $25 million of which will be allocated to its trucking/logistics segment. The funds will be used to buy new trucks, trailers and ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
Amidst a backdrop of a weak economic scenario, Japanese apparel company Daidoh Limited witnessed a slight dip in its sales performance in H1 FY 2013-14. The company, which is mainly engaged in the manufacture and sales of yarns, woolen ...
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The U.S. economy continued to expand at a moderate pace from November to the end of the year, with reports on transportation services generally positive, the Federal Reserve said. The economic outlook is positive in most of 12 Federal ...
As projected, GDP in the Eurozone expanded by a meagre 0.1% in Q3 2013, as export growth fell sharply. Economic activity is expected to accelerate modestly over the forecast horizon (+0.2% in Q4 2013, +0.2% in Q1 2014 and +0.3% in Q2 2014) ...