LONDON, Dec. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifty-five percent of private equity (PE) executives cite the growing capital requirements of the oil and gas industry as the foremost driver of their investment activity in the industry, according to a ...
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L'Oreal Paris hosted its eighth annual Women of Worth celebration last night at The Pierre in New York City. The event brought together an esteemed group of notable guests, company executives, business leaders, philanthropists and former ...
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Retail Information Systems (RIS) News released its annual Software LeaderBoard, with ECR Software Corp. (ECRS) finishing in first place among an international group of 87 leading retail software vendors. In addition to its number one rank ...
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NIKE, Inc. revealed another step in the vision NIKE, Inc. President and CEO Mark Parker recently described at its Investor Meeting, as a "manufacturing revolution". NIKE, Inc. celebrated the opening of a waterfree dyeing facility ...
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Rio Tinto will move to suspend alumina production at Gove and focus on its bauxite operations after determining the refinery is no longer a viable business in the current market environment. Rio Tinto will now work on the scope and phased ...
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Anthropologie, the large U.S. brand under the Urban Outfitters retail umbrella, will make a second trip to East Africa in January 2014. The January trip follows on the heels of a very successful visit in September, during which ...
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It's vital for the IT department to get executives on the company board to properly understand security threats if maximum possible security against cyber attacks is going to be achieved. That was the consensus between experts during a ...
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LANXESS, a leading manufacturer of synthetic iron oxide pigments, kicked off its first Pigments Symposium under the topic "Sustainable Technology for a Clean Environment" in Shanghai [Nov 22]. More than 140 participants including ...
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Taiwan is the world’s leader in LED manufacturing with 41 LED fabs representing over 21 percent of the world’s capacity — more than any other region (according to SEMI Opto/LED Fab Forecast report). Meanwhile, worldwide ...
Microsoft is planning end-to-end encryption of its internet traffic following concerns that the company had its network security breached as part of the National Security Agency's (NSA) internet surveillance programme. The revelation, ...
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PivotLink, the leading provider of retail marketing intelligence and analytic applications, introduced its Customer Performance Dashboard for PivotLink Customer PerformanceMETRIX (CPM). This latest CPM release expands PivotLink's suite ...
Shimano's latest entry into the e-bike powertrain market takes aim at Bosch with a center-drive motor that will be introduced in Europe in 2014. Called STEPS—the name given to the first group it launched in 2010—an acronym for ...
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It is not a secret that high-tech supply chains are among the most fluid and complicated as they are faced with myriad challenges in getting their goods from production to purchase. These challenges and ways in which high-tech logistics ...
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Bill Cubberley is showing product geared for the U.S. market at Nathan Furniture USA. John Wampler stands in the High Point Market showroom of his newly launched JGW Furniture. HIGH POINT — Industry veterans don't fade away. ...
Bedding veteran Steve Russo has resigned as CEO from Southerland to pursue other interests, Southerland President Bryan Smith said. "Steve was a good friend and well respected by me and our staff," Smith told Furniture/Today. "We wish ...
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