Beef prices are stacking up to all-time highs. Consumers are not only paying more for beef at the grocery store, they are willing to pay premium prices for USDA graded prime beef. Only 3% of all carcasses grade prime on a national average, ...
Few things illustrate our country’s packaging problem as acutely as the post-Christmas cleanup. New electronics toys, of course, can be blamed for a good part of the clutter. Heaps of boxes and plastic packs — often impossibly ...
This year is proving to be a pretty good year for many medtech companies. The majority of the largest 40 have seen their stock prices rise by double-digit percentages in 2014, according to a Qmed analysis. Meanwhile, only eight have seen ...
Tags: Medtech Companies, Medical device
Dairy Crest Group, Britain's largest dairy food company, plans to slash about 260 jobs and close its Hanworth glass bottling dairy and Chard facility, owing to lower demand for glass bottles and financial viability. As part of the plan, ...
Tags: Chard Facilities, Food
The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) should once again be asked to play the price stabilization role, in addition to the support price role, The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council of India (Texprocil) has said. Addressing a press ...
Tags: CCI, Price Stabilization Role, Textile
Chinese Sporting Goods Market could accelerate with a professional approach, according to a report released last week by the Social Sciences Academic Press and Beijing Sports College. During the first nine months of 2013, it said ...
Sales also expected to outperform market in second half reflecting strength of brand, says chairman John Lewis Partnership has reported its interim results for the half year ending July 26th, 2014. Partnership sales grew by six per ...
Tags: John Lewis, Toys
In its interim results for the first six months ending July 31, 2014, UK-based fashion retailer NEXT said it had a good first half, achieving sales and profits ahead of its original expectations. Led primarily by retail stores sales ...
Tags: Apparel, Fashion Apparel
It is learned that China auto parts sales were increased a lot in the first half year. And the sales revenues were 140.9 billion Yuan for the 20 surveyed list auto parts makers in the first half year, up 9.2% over last year and their net ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Weichai Power
Global meat packing company Hilton Food Group has witnessed a decline in revenue in the first half of its financial year. For the 28 weeks to 13 July 2014, revenue was £592.3m, a 0.3%, decline from £593.8m in the first half of ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Meat
The Australian Ministry of Finance has announced that the 30 percent Minerals Resources Rent Tax (MRRT) on coal and iron ore has been finally repealed. The repeal bill is now moving to the House of Representatives where it is expected to ...
Tags: Mining Tax, Mineral
Order visibility for Taiwan-based PC and notebook related IC vendors for the third quarter of 2014 is better than expected due to a rebound in demand for notebooks and other PC products, according to industry sources. However, suppliers ...
Brazilian miner Vale has been freed from paying taxes on profits made overseas, according to a Reuters report. This is expected to provide an opportunity for Vale to demand a $10 billion refund on a settlement payment. According to media ...
Tags: Tax Dispute, Mineral, miner
The China Association of Metalscrap Utilization has been lobbying the central government to lower the 17% tax on steel scrap sales to help increase its utilization in steelmaking, CAMU Secretary General Li Shubin said at the 7th China ...
Tags: Steel Scrap, Metal, Mineral
The economic recovery may be continuing to gather momentum, however the latest information from the BDRC Continental SME Finance Monitor highlights the Forum of Private Business's ongoing concern that distrust of the banking sector is ...
Tags: Economy