Pacepacker Services has developed a new offline, portable Mixed Tray Loader pick-and-place system. It’s designed to quickly generate assorted trays of product for smaller outlets, such as convenience supermarkets and inner-city ...
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Australian wholesaler and distributor of groceries Metcash is attempting to stem recent losses in its Liquor division, entering into an agreement in late February 2015 to purchase Southern Independent Liquor Group (SILG), which trades under ...
Tags: Liquor Sales, Food
Owing to its large population and rising disposable incomes, India continues to be an attractive long-term retail destination, says the Economic Survey 2014-15. Citing AT Kearney’s Global Retail Development Index (GRDI), the ...
Tags: retail destination, Apparel
The share of cotton from more sustainable sources used by furniture and home furnishings retailer, Ikea in its products reached 76 per cent and is on track to reach its goal of 100 per cent by August 2015. Sweden based Ikea Group released ...
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GS1 US, which serves more than 2 million businesses in 25 industries in the United States by facilitating industry initiatives and providing education and support, has unveiled a new guideline called the ‘Tagged Item Performance ...
Online groceries in Australia set to grow, IBISWorld Online groceries sales in Australia are predicted to grow, reaching $2,194 million in 2015, up 14.6 per cent from $1,914.2 million in 2014, according to market research organisation ...
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The retail industry in India is one of the fastest-growing in the world and could see a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10 per cent over 2012-2020, growing from US$ 500 million to $1 trillion in that time frame, says a recent report ...
This was supposed to be the diamond decade. Back in 2010, De Beers executives were touting that the coming 10 years would bring unprecedented demand and growth to the industry. Almost halfway through, it feels anything but, especially for ...
Tags: Diamond Decade, diamond dealers
UK-based RPC Containers Corby has invested in a new Injection Stretch Blow Moulding (ISBM) technology, enabling the company to offer its established high barrier PP/EVOH/PP containers with enhanced transparency. According to the ...
Tags: Injection Stretch Blow Moulding technology, Agriculture
The National Retail Federation has issued a statement from David French, senior vice president for government relations following a news conference with state and local officials who urged Congress to act on sales tax fairness legislation ...
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Japanese retail packaging is as culturally unique to Japan as its language, traditional dress and customs, and it took four days at Tokyo Pack 2014 to begin to make sense of characteristic traits in pack construction and consumer ...
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Serene Furnishings has appointed Alan White as representative for Serene Beds and Serene Living in Scotland. Alan is a widely respected and well-known figure in Scotland’s furniture trade, having worked in the industry for 28 years, ...
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Retail sales remained resilient in the year to November, with the pace of growth expected to accelerate once again in the crucial Christmas run up, according to the CBI’s latest quarterly Distributive Trades Survey. The survey of ...
TXT Retail, one of the leading providers of integrated and collaborative end-to-end planning, PLM, and supply chain collaboration solutions for the luxury, fashion and consumer sectors, has launched TXT AgileFit, a new deployment approach ...
The annual 2014 Specsavers everywoman in Retail Ambassadors have recently been announced at a ceremony in central London attended by Dame Mary Perkins and several hundred leading business figures representing over 50 retail brands. Twelve ...
Tags: Specsavers Everywoman, Furniture