China-based smartphone vendors have been mostly inclined to adopt fingerprint recognition for their mid-range and high-end models and consequently they will ship an estimated 200-300 smartphones featuring fingerprint-recognizing functions ...
Bed manufacturer Silentnight, a company that has been investing in apprentices for more than 10 years, believes the new shift in the demands on the public sector could lead to cause for concern. As 2015 drew to a close and the targets for ...
The new report from the Smithers Pira has revealed that global smart packaging market is expected to rise at an annual rate of 7.5% to $7.6bn during the next five years. According to the report, smart packaging is the rapidly growing ...
Indian food company LT Foods has entered into an agreement to acquire rice export business of consumer goods producer Hindustan Unilever (HUL) for around Rs250m ($3.76m). Under the deal, LT Foods will acquire two HUL brands - Gold Seal ...
Tags: LT Foods, Aquisition, HUL, Rice export business
Li & Fung Limited, which designs, sources and distributes consumer goods for many of the world's leading consumer brands, reported sales 2.4 percent to $18.8 billion in 2015. “2015 was a challenging year," said Spencer Fung, Group ...
Tags: Li&Fung, Sales, Retail distribution
Employee-owned Packaging Group, Kite Packaging, has been named by London Stock Exchange Group as one of the top ‘1000 companies to inspire Britain in 2016’. 2016 heralds the 3rd edition of London Stock Exchange Groups’ ...
Sainsbury's, Argos and Amazon also took home the gongs at the annual retailer awards earlier this week. Online retailer Shop Direct emerged as the big winner at this year’s Retail Week Awards 2016, taking the gong home in no less ...
Tags: Shop Direct, Retail Week Awards, Amazon, Argos
Packaging firm Sealed Air has launched new protective packaging solution, Bubble Wrap IB, to help companies meet rising e-commerce demand. In particular, the firm announced the worldwide commercially availability of the 'unpoppable' ...
Tags: Sealed Air, Protective packaging solution, IB, E-commerce demand
Crown Beverage Packaging Mexico has introduced two new beverage can sizes to better serve beverage companies in the Latin American region. Two additional beverage can sizes, including 9.1 oz. sleek style and 11 oz. standard format, have ...
Tags: Crown, Beverage, New can sizes
Cargill is cutting back on the amount of antibiotics used on its U.S. cattle supply by 20%. This decision will influence 1.2 million cattle annually, none of which use any type of antibiotics for growth promotion that are important for ...
Tags: Cargill, Antibiotic, Cattle supply, Beef
Toyota has joined a Japanese government initiative to test end-to-end hydrogen fuel supply chain which aim to cut down CO2 emission significantly. This private-public partnership consists of Kanagawa Perfectural Government, municipal ...
Tags: Low-carbon, Hydrogen, Renewable energy
Aldi is working its goal to work with suppliers toward transitioning to a shell egg supply chain that is 100% cage-free by 2025. As a first step toward its goal, all ALDI stores will carry a cage-free shell option by the end of the year. ...
Tags: Aldi, Cage-free shell egg, Supply
At the Light + Building 2016 trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany (13-18 March), UK-based Plessey Semiconductors Ltd is releasing its new LED beam control module. Stellar is the firm's latest GaN-on-silicon LED solution and showcases the ...
General Motors announced that it is acquiring Cruise Automation, a startup company that makes self-driving kits for certain types of cars. With this deal, General Motors will add Cruise Automation's software talent and rapid ...
EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, reports that the global PV market is seeing slowing demand after the Chinese New Year holidays. Peak installation seasons in the U.S. and Japan have passed, and the demand related to China’s ...