Half of consumers around the world say they are actively trying to lose weight, and 75 per cent of them plan to achieve that goal by changing their diet, according to market research organisation Nielsen. However, sales of both ...
Tags: Food Sales, Indulgent Foods
Methanex, the world’s largest producer and supplier of methanol to major international markets, has increased its regional contract price for the Asia-Pacific region for March 2015 contracts. For the Asia-Pacific region, Methanex ...
Automotive component supplier Cooper-Standard has completed the purchase of Huayu Automotive System’s shares in Huayu-Cooper Standard Sealing Systems, the company’s Chinese joint venture. The purchase has made Cooper-Standard ...
Global confectionery company Nestle has announced it will remove artificial flavours and FDA-certified colours, such as Red 40 and Yellow 5, from all of its chocolate confectionery products in the US by the end of 2015. Nestle USA said ...
Global smartphone revenue grew 20% year-on-year to a record $115bn in fourth-quarter 2014 as unit sales rose 19% to almost 346 million (totalling over 1.2bn in full-year 2014), according to market research firm GfK. In Q4/2014, all ...
Tags: Smartphone shipments, Smartphone
Driven mainly by a stronger demand in the Americas, sales in the fourth quarter of 2014 recovered and rose by 6.3 per cent from the year ago quarter, at sports goods and apparel marketer Puma. “In comparison with fourth quarter of ...
Tags: Puma, sports goods
When Bent Serritslev joined Xeikon as managing director Xeikon Asia Pacific (ASPAC) in October 2014, his twenty-nine years of printing industry experience in Asia came with him. "I enjoy working with printers and converters, and want ...
Tags: Xeikon, printing industry
US based Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is planning to construct around 25,000 new electric vehicle charging stations across Northern and Central California over a five-year period. The company has filed an application with the ...
Tags: Pacific Gas, electric vehicle
Global industrial coatings market is expected to witness growth owing to increased importance of corrosion resistance, high temperature performance and enhanced service life in automotive, marine, construction and oil & gas industries. ...
US seafood importer South Pacific Specialties is upgrading its Miami processing operations with modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) technology amid vertical integration push in South America and Asia. The company also expects to ...
Tags: South Pacific, MAP Technology, Packaging
Irrespective of the fine print in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, expected to be signed this year, Vietnam’s apparel industry is likely to benefit at the expense of its South Asian competitors like Bangladesh and Sri ...
Tags: Apparel Industry, Apparel
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, says that Apple has committed $848m for clean ...
Tags: Commercial End-User, Electronics
The U.S. trade deficit in December jumped to the highest level in more than two years as exports fell and Americans bought a record amount of imports — a potentially worrisome development that could weigh on overall economic growth. ...
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After a stronger-than-expected Christmas trading period, retail spending growth will slow heading into 2015, according to the sixteenth edition of the AFGC CHEP Retail Index released late last week. The AFGC CHEP Retail Index is a ...
Tags: Christmas trading, food exports
Methanex, the world’s largest producer and supplier of methanol to major international markets, has decreased its regional contract price for all the regions—Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America—for February 2015 ...
Tags: Methanol Prices, Methanex