The overall market for lamps will rise from $17.9bn now to peak at $21.2bn in 2018 before shrinking to $16bn by 2022, forecasts market research firm Strategies Unlimited in its latest annual report ‘The Worldwide Market for ...
Tags: LEDs Lighting, Lamp Market
Gildan Activewear Inc., which is the largest supplier of branded athletic socks in the United States, reported record fourth quarter adjusted earnings per share of $1.00, up 20.5 percent compared to last year, but projected a loss for the ...
China's non-manufacturing sector activity showed a slight improvement in November, as new export orders and employment added stabilizers to the economy. The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the non-manufacturing sector came in at 53.9 ...
Tags: Service Sector, PMI
Women are an integral part of the transport and logistics industry (T&L) and have a great deal to offer organisations big and small, in multiple industry sectors and across all levels of management. A new paper prepared by Women In Supply ...
Driven by a large fall in the area planted to cotton, the production of white gold in Australia is forecast to fall by almost half in 2014-15, according to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES). ...
Tags: Cotton Output, cotton
Besides a 12 per cent fall in acreage, cotton output is expected to plunge 18 per cent in the Southern hemisphere, which covers countries like Brazil, Australia and Southern & Eastern Africa. According to ICAC’s latest report, ...
Tags: Cotton Output, cotton
According to foreign media’s report, IDC predicts worldwide smartphone shipments will reach almost 1.3 billion units in 201, up 26.3% on year. And Android Smartphones shipment units will reach 1.06 billion, accounting for 82.3%. By ...
Tags: Smartphone, Apple, Andriod
British upholstery group Sofa Brands International has today launched research showing that almost half of the UK population wrongly believe that Britain’s manufacturing industry is on the decline. The research also shows that one in ...
Tags: Goods, Sofa Brands, Furniture
Global beverage giant The Coca-Cola Company has made a deal with South African multinational brewing and beverage company SABMiller to acquire its Appletiser drinks brands on a worldwide basis, and acquire or be licensed rights to a further ...
Tags: Coca-Cola, Sabmiller, Agriculture
Australian wholesaler and distributor of groceries and hardware products Metcash Limited (Metcash) has announced a drop in its Underlying Profit after Tax of 9 per cent, to $101.7 million, which it said was due to “ongoing operating ...
Tags: hardware products, groceries, Agriculture
The Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers & Exporters Association (PRGMEA) has urged the Government of Pakistan to increase gas and power supply to the textile industry, in order to help exporters cut their energy costs and release ...
Tags: power supply, gas supply, Textile
Austria based, Lenzing said looking at the challenging conditions, it will not undertake any new expansion projects at any of its viscose staple fibre (VSF) production sites across the world. Although Lenzing continues to anticipate good ...
Tags: viscose staple fibre, Textile
EBITDA at the largest down apparel company in China, Bosideng International rose 11.9 percent from a year ago period, but operating profit slipped 10.7 per cent in the six months to September 30, 2014 period. Bosideng said, as a result of ...
Global in 2015 will double those in 2014, but the corresponding production value will increase only 30% due to estimated price drops of 30-35%, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers. Europe will account for 23% of the global LED ...
Tags: LED lighting, shipments, Lights
Sales grew by just 1.5 per cent in the thirteen weeks to November 1, 2004 period from a year ago quarter, at NYSE listed and omni-channel retailer of women's clothing, Chico's FAS. For the third quarter of 2014, Chico’s reported net ...
Tags: omni-channel retailer, net sales, Apparel