The move by the Government will see the current minimum wage upped from £6.70 per hour to £7.20 this month. But the news has our indie retail panel calling for a reassessment of 'already squeezed margins'. The livng wage ...
Tags: Touhub, The toy store, Kerrison store, Living wages
Apple does its best to keep keynotes simple and free from the gritty details – hence why we’re only just finding out about this. The new 9.7-inch iPad Pro won’t be as fast as last year’s 12.9-inch iPad Pro, despite ...
UK retail footfall in February was 1.1% down on a year ago – lower than the 1.2% rise seen in January and the three-month average rate of -0.8% – according to the latest BRC/Springboard Footfall and Vacancies Monitor. ...
Tags: BRC, Retail football, Goverment support
With just a day until the Samsung Galaxy S7 goes on sale, you’ll want to give this a read. The Samsung Galaxy S7 is very difficult to repair, it turns out. The prolific tinkerers at iFixit have had their way with the new handset, ...
Tags: Samsung Galaxy S7, Iphone 6s, Mobile
Ardagh Group and partnered with Dutch watermark solutions company Filigrade to offer digital features to metal packaging solutions. As part of the deal, Ardagh will offer its customers with smart interactive print technology which ...
Tags: Metal Packaging, print technology
Star Wars was not the only force making a come-back in 2015. The return of generic advertising brought with it a promise of increased profitability for the diamond trade. Even as numerous stories reflecting pain in the industry vied for our ...
The launching ceremony of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games is held on Tuesday, December 15, 2015. [Photo: bjnews.com] China has launched the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 ...
There were over 900 expats participating in the Beijing fair that just concluded last Saturday. [Photo/SAFEA] "Candidates have to be native speakers, with at least two years' teaching experience. And a TEFL certificate is a must," said ...
Tags: Unseasoned Expats, Finding Jobs, China
The December/January US Gulf Coast 3% sulfur fuel oil swap spread moved to a wider contango on Friday, while market sources searched for a fundamental reason to explain the movement. Platts assessed the December/January 3%S spread at a ...
Tags: sulfur fuel oil, USGC fuel oil
The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) has just published a technical memorandum, TM-30-15, that outlines a new system for evaluating the color rendition of light sources. While the International Commission on Illumination's Color ...
Tags: IES, light sources, color rendition
Lumileds today announces a revolutionary approach to achieving flawless color mixing with its high power LUXEON C Color Line of LEDs. “We’ve solved the problems of beam halos and mismatched, unmixed color by designing our ...
An outbreak of cautious optimism in optics and laser markets is fueling the hope that the economic slowdown may be over. Not all vendors are cheerful however, with the order books of some in the materials processing sector continuing to ...
The European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA), one of the most respected collectors of data on solar installations, says that only 7 GW of additional solar power was connected to Europe’s grids in 2014 – down 36 per cent ...
The Xinjiang Uygur Muqam is a term referring to a variety of musical practices widespread among Uygur communities, one of the largest ethnic minorities in China. Born into a musical family, Ablimit Eysa is the 6th generation of the ...
Tags: Cultural Heritage, Xinjiang, Muqam music
Diao, 72, was born in Chengdu, China, but moved to New York City at a very young age. He attended Kenyon College in Ohio and studied philosophy, but soon found the academic world just wasn’t for him. Instead of class, Diao spent most ...
Tags: David Diao, Artist