Finland-based Oy Roberts has appointed DB Schenker Logistics for the storage and distribution of their food products such as jams, marmalades, fillings, dessert sauces and flavors as well as raw materials and semi-manufactured product ...
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In April, the consumer price index (CPI) went up by 2.4 percent year-on-year. The prices grew by 2.4 percent both in cities and in rural areas. The food prices went up by 4.0 percent, while the non-food prices increased by 1.6 percent. The ...
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A growing trend among industrial companies is to develop strategies for giving priority to specific customer sectors rather than types of products. European companies offering both coatings and speciality chemicals have been becoming ...
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A new study commissioned by the National Retail Federation and other trade associations shows that imported merchandise has considerably lowered the price of consumer goods for American families while creating millions of jobs for American ...
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Centric Software, Inc. has earned a spot as a finalist for the 2013 Red Herring Top 100 North America Awards. The Top 100 is a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures. It represents “the ...
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Anglo–Dutch consumer goods company Unilever has sold its former ice cream plant in Hagerstown, Maryland to a joint venture of New Mill Capital (NMC) and M Davis Group (MDG). The 142,000ft2 plant, which ceased production in the Fall ...
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High street baker Greggs has won approval to build a new frozen savouries factory in the Midlands, as the firm pursues its store expansion plan and continues its move into packaged supermarket retail. The UK’s biggest bakery ...
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Brazil's national statistics agency reported Friday that industrial output in the country increased 0.7 percent in March, following a 2.4 percent drop in February. Production was also down 3.3 percent from March 2012. After falling in ...
According to Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in March this year industrial producer prices decreased by 0.2 percent in the euro area and in the European Union (EU-27) month on month. Compared to March last ...
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The release of the new ISO standards for Consumer Product Safety (ISO 10377) and Consumer Product Recall (ISO 10393) has been greeted with enthusiasm from the grocery sector. These two new ISO standards, developed in parallel and with the ...
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Dutch consumer goods company Unilever has announced a voluntary open offer to increase its stake in its Indian subsidiary Hindustan Unilever (HUL) from 52.48% to up to 75%. Under the terms of the deal, Unilever agreed to pay INR600 ...
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With so much of iPhone cases selling in the market, it is important that the iPhone cases makers are making these products in the right manner. By doing so, the customers are able to get the right fit for their particular handset. The ...
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Bad weather and the pressures of the high street have hit Greggs’ sales, leading the retail baker to issue a profits warning. In its interim management statement issued to the stockmarket today (April 29), the company said its own ...
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In April this year, the seasonally adjusted confidence index in the Italian manufacturing sector declined by 1.12 percent month on month to 87.6, after minimal month-on-month growth in the preceding two months, as announced by the Italian ...
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North American robotics companies shattered previous opening quarter records for robots ordered and shipped in the first quarter of 2013, according to new statistics released from Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry’s ...