The global apparent steel demand for 2014 will increase by two percent to 1.56 billion metric tons, following a growth of 3.8 percent in 2013, according to the short range outlook presented at the 48th annual meeting of the World Steel ...
Tags: Steel Demand, Chinese Demand
Speaking at the 48th annual meeting of worldsteel (World Steel Association) held in Moscow on October 6, Hans Jürgen Kerkhoff, chairman of the worldsteel Economics Committee said that with a seven percent negative GDP growth expected ...
Tags: steel demand, real estate sector
The FlipKart Diwali offer in which consumers could not access juicy deals, due to massive response and in turn and led to jamming the online retailer’s website, should not be used as a ploy to over-regulate the fledgling ecommerce ...
Australian automotive component manufacturers remain steadfastly opposed to the federal government’s intention to cut $500 million of funding from the Automotive Transformation Scheme over the next three years and the proposed early ...
Tags: Automotive Bill, Automotive
ORLANDO, Fla. — Gartner, Inc. on Thursday highlighted the top 10 technology trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2015. Analysts presented their findings during the sold out Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, which started ...
Tags: Gartner, Technology Trends, Electrical
Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Fall Conference & 71st IREPAS Meeting in Berlin, Ioannis Meimaroglu from Helveco Intertrade, the chairman of the raw materials suppliers committee, stated that the increasing volume of exports from China due ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Raw Material
In welcoming industry efforts to develop a code of conduct to address unfair practices in the grocery sector, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has called for issues around enforceability and coverage to be addressed before ...
Tags: grocery sector, Service
Interim Victorian Transport Association (VTA) CEO Peter Anderson has urged political parties to ‘take the blinkers off” and look at the bigger picture rather than focusing on just one piece of the puzzle. Mr Anderson said the ...
Tags: Melbourne Traffic
The Indian home-grown men’s lifestyle brand Grasim Suiting unveiled a new festive fabric range made from the environment friendly jute fibre. Replete with an ultra comfy soft feeling fabric structure, each fabric from the collection ...
Tags: Grasim, Festive Fabric Collection, Textile
At the recently held World Retail Congress, Swedish apparel retailer H&M and Japanese garment marketer Fast Retailing bagged the 'International Retailer of the Year’ award and ‘Retailer of the Year’ award, respectively. ...
Tags: Fast Retailing, H&M, Accessories
Twin textile trade shows Yarnex- India International Yarn Exhibition and TexIndia- Textile Sourcing Fair which was held in Tirupur earlier this month witnessed a 25 percent increase in visitor numbers, who came from India as well as foreign ...
On Wednesday, after wee-hours bargaining that capped more than a decade of negotiations, Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation announced the signing of a 30-year gs-supply contract, estimated by the parties to be worth $400 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
There is a saying about how soccer is perceived in three big nations: Americans are not interested in watching soccer games but are good at playing it; Chinese like watching it but are poor players; Indians are neither fond of it nor able ...
Tags: World Cup, Sporting, China Sporting
During his presentation at the SteelOrbis 2014 Fall Conference & 71st IREPAS Meeting being held in Berlin on September 28-30, Bernd Neuenkirchen from international steel trading company C&F International commented on both current and ...
Tags: US Producers, Turkish Rebar, Energy
Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Fall Conference & 71st IREPAS Meeting in Berlin, Kim Marti, international sales director of Spanish steel producer CELSA Group, said that the key risks to the global economy, such as geopolitical tensions ...