The changing political situations in the Middle East are focusing attention on possibly significant increases in energy production, but countries that could produce that energy still face significant hurdles, according to a panel of Middle ...
Tags: energy production, Mineral
The German IT and communications sector is set to return to growth in 2014 driven by smartphones and tablet computers but still trail a booming global market, an industry lobby said Sunday. On the eve of the world's biggest hi-tech fair, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, smartphones, tablet computers
Plastic beverage caps and closures are now more popular than metal closures, according to a new report from market research organisation Canadean. According to the report, plastic closures (49 per cent) overtook metal closures (48 per ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The oil complex settled sharply higher Monday as a Russian military intervention in the Ukraine heightened concerns over global oil supplies from Russia -- one of the top oil producers in the world. NYMEX April crude settled $2.33 higher ...
Tags: Oil Futures, Oil
The Riverside Company has acquired Optima srl and its related companies (dba Mec3), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of ingredients for gelato, pastry and other foods. Based in San Clemente, Italy, Mec3 sells internationally and ...
Tags: Riverside, Ingredients
In less than ten years, firm has more than quadrupled its revenue. LEGO Group has this morning confirmed that it increased sales in 2013 by 11 per cent. Evergreen product lines such as LEGO City, LEGO Duplo, LEGO Technic and LEGO ...
Tags: Lego, Toys, Sales Increase
Succinity GmbH, the joint venture between Corbion Purac and BASF for the production and commercialization of biobased succinic acid, has announced the successful start-up of its first commercial production facility. The plant, located at ...
New Whole-Farm EncircaSM service Offerings Unveiled MIAMI, Feb. 27, 2014 – DuPont Executive Vice President James C. Borel outlined growth drivers across the seed, crop protection and nutrition and health businesses today at the ...
Tags: DuPont, Health Segments
In order to develop the garment industry of Kyrgyzstan, apparel enterprises operating in the sector need to expand business contacts with international firms and need to increase competitiveness amongst them, for competing in global ...
Tags: Kyrgyz Garment, Apparel, Accessories
The 30 largest engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies in the global photovoltaic (PV) industry installed 30% of the world's non-residential PV capacity in 2013, up 5pp from 2012, according to IHS. "We see integrators in ...
The past week has seen the equivalent of the total world’s annual coffee product traded in a five-day period, creating panic buying. Origin producers have also begun withdrawing from the market in anticipation of higher prices ...
Once the mobile world's pioneers, Nokia, Motorola and BlackBerry are now the industry's sorry laggards, searching for lost glory. Analysts hold out little hope for them as they struggle to get back in a game now lorded over by Samsung and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Nokia, Blackberry, Motorola, Samsung, smatrphone
Haier has claimed a 9.7 per cent global market share in home appliances during 2013, up from 8.6 per cent in 2012, to retain its Number One ranking for the fifth consecutive year, according to UK-based research firm Euromonitor ...
Tags: Haier, local market, cut-through consumer, diverse product range
The Central Asian country of Tajikistan can increase production of organic cotton fibre and also find an industry that could process it, says Simon Ferrigno, International Trade Centre (ITC) international consultant on organic cotton, ...
Tags: Organic Cotton, Textile
Guinness Peat Group plc released its preliminary financial results for the year ended 31 December 2013, incorporating the 2013 preliminary results for Coats plc, the world’s leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts ...
Tags: Guinness Peat, Threads Maker