The Crewe-based business is to be managed by investment firm Sullivan Street Partners, and employs over 100 staff, producing printed cartons, leaflets and labels. The transaction was an undisclosed fee. Medica has a strong heritage of ...
Tags: Medica Packaging, cartons
This year’s gradually improving business outlook looks set to continue into 2015, with the latest survey of Australian firms revealing that an increasing number expect to lift their sales and profits, sell their goods and services at ...
New Taipei has adopted a PFI (private finance initiative) scheme to replace streetlamps with LED models in the northern Taiwanese city. Lite-On Technology and Delta Electronics have both won the city's PFI contracts to install 120,000 and ...
Tags: LED Streetlamp, LED Light
In partnership with Infor, a supplier of business application software, the Institute of Logistics at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) organized a round table conference for the second time last month, under the theme ...
Japan's government and central bank are counting on export growth to help the economy overcome April’s domestic-demand-dampening consumption tax hike. The latest figures show that despite a weak yen, overall shipments remain sluggish, ...
Tags: export growth
Industrial property investment returns peak at 11.7 per cent with facilities 33 per cent bigger than they were in 2010, according to the latest research. Strengthening returns and increasing scale of distribution centres and warehouse ...
Tags: Industrial property
After decades of running their supply chains with internal enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, enterprises have seen the shift to a global economy and supply chain — requiring a myriad of external business processes that their ...
Tags: Supply Chain, Economy, Electronics
Akzo Nobel N.V. has reported positive volume growth and, for the fifth consecutive quarter, an improvement in Return on sales (ROS) – from 8.0 percent to 9.1 percent. Excluding restructuring costs of €55 million, ROS was 10.6 ...
Tags: AkzoNobel, Performance Coatings
VDMA textile machinery association, associated with around 120 manufacturers of textile machinery and accessories from all textile sectors, organized a tour for a high-ranking delegation of 15 well-known German textile machinery and ...
Tags: VDMA, German Firms, Textile
B&G Foods has appointed Robert Cantwell as its next president and chief executive officer, effective 1 January 2015. Cantwell, 57, who currently serves as the company's executive vice president of finance and chief financial officer, will ...
Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has expressed confidence that a low and stable inflation rate would be soon attained. Reacting to the data released for Wholesale Price Index (WPI) and consumer price inflation for September 2014, ...
Tags: inflation rate, food markets
According to the statistics released by the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry, in the January-August period of this year France's basic steel product and ferroalloy exports amounted to a value of €6.28 billion, ...
Tags: Steel Product, ferroalloy
The Federal Government has announced an expansion of EFIC’s loan powers to enable the organisation to support more small and medium-sized Australian exporters. These changes will allow EFIC to support SME exporters more efficiently ...
Tags: Export Finance, EFIC
The exports of fabric and apparel from Vietnam surged by 19.4 percent year-on-year in the first eight months of 2014, according to the preliminary data released by the Customs IT & Statistics Department, General Department of Customs, ...
Over 150 experts across the cotton textile value chain from around 20 countries attended this year's Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) Stakeholder Conference held from September 24–26 in Cologne, Germany. Making African cotton ...