The results from Dun & Bradstreet’s March Business Expectations Survey have highlighted a second consecutive decline in expectations, with businesses issuing subdued forecasts for the three-month period to June 2016, despite reporting ...
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This year's conference is focusing on the economic, social, psychological and physical benefits of play. Execs from LEGO, Google, Amazon are heading to the Sandbox@MIT conference next week to discuss 'The ROI of Play'. Taking place ...
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In order to examine how the architectural community is evolving in regards to sustainable design practices, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE) undertook an in-depth study of nearly 200 COTE Top ...
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An innovative research project has received a share from UK government’s £38.2m prize to include Formula 1 technology to make family cars lighter, more fuel efficient and help plug-in vehicles to improve mileage. A consortium ...
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will provide over $90m grant to strengthen local and regional food systems and for specialty crop development. Specialty crops include fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, flowers and nursery crops. ...
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Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC), in collaboration with SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association (SPI), have launched a multi-hospital plastics recycling project in Chicago. Focused on non-infectious plastic packaging and ...
The United States is expected to be the most competitive manufacturing nation, moving China into the number two position by 2020, according to the 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index report from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited ...
GfK’s long-running Consumer Confidence Index remained at zero in March, perhaps signalling Brexit fears. Two of the measures used to calculate it saw decreases this month, with one measure showing an increase and the remaining two ...
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BPI Sports, a sports nutrition company, has announced that it will no longer be utilizing the services of 3rd party distributors. BPI Sports will instead be utilizing their own current infrastructure to distribute straight to retail. This ...
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An award-winning independent bed retailer has backed calls for a national sleep strategy and 'slumber number' to guide the public on how much sleep they should be aiming to get. The Royal Society for Public Health’s report Waking Up ...
Chinese and U.S. representatives expressed optimism for the future of the China-U.S. Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) negotiations during a session at this year's Boao Forum for Asia annual conference. Against the backdrop of a global ...
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has urged solid efforts from the country's financial and taxation authorities to deliver the value-added tax (VAT) reform as part of efforts to invigorate the real economy during a visit to the State ...
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China's economy may have just come back for a recovery, recent economic indicators signaled. Latest data showed that China's manufacturing activity rebounded in March to its highest level since last August while non-manufacturing sector ...
The Architecture Billings Index saw a dip into negative terrain for the first time in five months in January, but inched back up in February with a small increase in demand for design services. As a leading economic indicator of ...
“Night of Shandong Province” theme activity of 2016 China Development High-level Forum host by the provincial government of Shandong Province and Development and Research Center of State Council was held in Diaoyutai State ...