For the second consecutive year, ZAK Products Inc. has been named to Inc. magazine’s annual “Inc. 500/5000,” a ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The Texas-based specialty automotive fluids ...
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The league table celebrates companies with the fastest growing international sales. Carte Blanche Group is celebrating its debut in the annual Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200 league table. Published this weekend, the table ...
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Capillary Technologies, the market leader in cloud-based retail customer engagement management, announced that it has closed a $14 million Series B round of venture financing. This new investment adds to the $17 million of Series A funding ...
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Glo AB of Lund, Sweden, which provides light source solutions for displays, illumination, and automotive sectors using its proprietary nanowire-based LED (nLED) technology, has been named as one of Europe’s five Cleantech Companies of ...
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack joined Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow to launch a new conservation initiative with an focus on public-private partnership. The new program promises to go beyond traditional ...
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7-Eleven is expanding to Western Australia Convenience store group 7-Eleven has announced it will be expanding into Western Australia in 2014, marking the first time the company has entered a new market in 32 years. With Western ...
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The increase in infrastructure and maintenance spending by the private and public sector in South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya is lending momentum to the industrial paints and coatings market in these countries. Nigeria presents the most ...
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) has loaned Austrian textile company Lezning AG €100 million to help finance research and development (R&D) activities and investment in Tencel fibre production. Lenzing, which specializes in making ...
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China predicted to use 45 billion cubic meters of gas by 2030 As China strives to convert to cleaner energy, its liquefied natural gas production capacity will soar in 2014, with higher profits supporting more projects. Fifty-five ...
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Australia's mid-market businesses are experiencing a sharp increase in confidence and renewed optimism around future performance, according to the Commonwealth Bank Future Business Index. The index reveals confidence reached the highest ...
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Love’s Travel Stops announced it is kicking off its 50th anniversary in 2014 and founder and executive chairman Tom Love announced the company would undergo a record year of building. “I’m humbled every day by our ...
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By Doug Mayo In March of 2013, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Cattle Identification rules were implemented requiring all cattle 18 months old or older be identified for interstate (across state line) transportation. ...
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This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. Two years ago, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote a much-discussed piece on the ...
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As the clock ticks on a May 31 deadline to submit conflict mineral reports to the federal government, some in the plastics industry are wondering how the new law aimed at addressing a humanitarian crisis in Africa applies to them. The ...
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China’s manufacturing activities in private and export-oriented companies grew in December at the slowest pace in three months, the latest evidence that structural reforms have slowed China’s economic growth, a survey showed ...