Smithers Pira, in association with Packaging Digest and Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News, will bring together leading brand owners; packaging manufacturers, converters and designers; sustainability leaders and more for the 8th annual ...
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Creganna-Tactx Medical has announced today that Robert B. Hance will join the company as Chief Executive Officer in September 2013, taking over the role from Helen Ryan who has held the position for the last eight years. Robert ...
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In October, Chicago preservationists' fight to save Bertrand Goldberg's historic Prentice Women's Hospital from demolition ended in disappointment. With the blessing of city officials and over the objections of renown architects like Frank ...
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Recent research in the American Marketing Association's Journal of Marketing Research finds that, as the environment becomes more socially crowded, consumers show an increased preference for products with safety connotations. A crowded ...
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Rich Boehne is ready for scorn or doubt from other broadcasters in the face of his unprecedented TV paywall. The president and CEO of the E.W. Scripps Co., which announced on Thursday that it would launch a digital subscription model ...
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Google and Microsoft have introduced software that makes it harder for users to search for child abuse material online, the companies said in a joint announcement Monday. Writing ahead of a British summit on Internet safety, Google's ...
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Imagine a world in which kids make all the decisions. Imagine a time that these decisions include nearly every purchase in the child's household... Perhaps this seems hypothetical, a potential future unrealized. Yet kids have that ...
The recent commercial history of market research organisation Nielsen is a good example of how expectations and capabilities have changed radically in the world of analytics. Retailers employing Nielsen to provide services such as retail ...
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GT Nexus announced that Procter & Gamble (P&G) has renewed and expanded its contract for global supply chain management technology and services. P&G has been using the GT Nexus platform since 2001 to manage its global logistics spend. The ...
Kao Corp. (4452.T), the biggest maker of toiletries in Japan, has been laid far behind by US consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) in the Chinese mainland. It entered the market in August 1993, but always suffered a loss-making ...
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Microsoft is the highest ranked technology company in a study that recognises the top 20 best companies for leadership in the world. The Hay Group study recognises organisations that have the best leadership practices, and the running ...
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SK Capital, a private investment firm with a disciplined focus on the specialty materials, chemicals and healthcare sectors, is expected to close the acquisition of the Textile Chemicals, Paper Specialties and Emulsions businesses from ...
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Goodyear is one of the world's largest tyre companies. It employs approximately 69,000 people and manufactures its products in more than 57 facilities in 23 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centres in Akron, Ohio and ...
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BMW is keeping its M division and i-brand as separate entities, confirming at the launch of the BMW i8 that no M engineers worked on the hybrid supercar project. This is despite the i8 – despite the three-cylinder turbocharged ...
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Capel Rugs has joined forces with Susan Hable Smith and Katharine Hable Sweeney of Hable Construction to create a line of exclusive area rugs featuring whimsical, fun and lighthearted graphics. The initial rollout, scheduled to debut ...
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