Retailers, encouraged by the housing market rebound and improving sales trends, are headed to the High Point Market with fairly lengthy shopping lists and an eye on some key categories, color and style trends. For some stores, business ...
Tags: Sales Trends, Furniture, Furnishing
Amid signs of gradually improving business conditions, motion furniture and recliner resources are launching an aggressive round of product introductions at the High Point Market as they try to reach a broader range of consumers with the ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
The Chery Alpha 7 concept has been previewed ahead of its unveiling at this weekend's Shanghai auto show. The Chery Alpha 7 concept debuts a new design language for the Chinese manufacturer, sporting an attractive headlight and front ...
Tags: Auto, Transportation
In spite of difficult market conditions in its core fiber business, the Lenzing Group succeeded in achieving the second-best business result in its history in the 2012 financial year. This can be attributed to new record fiber sales volumes ...
Tags: Textile, Textile Industry
Burberry announces results of six months to 31 March 2013. Highlights for the six months to 31 March 2013 -Total revenue £1,116m, up 9% underlying Retail revenue £840m, up 13% underlying - Retail now 75% of group ...
Tags: Burberry Retail, Apparel
An event concerning the energy and electronics sector, Smart Grids Paris, runs from 4 - 6 June at CNIT Paris La Défense. It promises to examing "key issues that affect the industry both up- and down-stream of smart meters", such as ...
Tags: Smart Grid, Consumer Electronics
Ingredients The three main ingredients that contribute to the unique characters of various Chinese alcoholic beverages are the grains, the water, and the liquor starter. Other ingredients that alter the colour or taste of the final ...
Tags: Chinese Wine, Production
SPIE leaders said they were encouraged to see proposed increases in funds for scientific research and development and a greater emphasis on STEM education in President Obama’s 2014 budget proposal released last Wednesday. At the same ...
Tags: SPIE Leaders, Science Funding
The Wool Market The market has turned down since the lift in prices in January, when the AWEX Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) rose by 39¢ to 1111¢. Unfortunately, a series of downturns during March took the EMI back to 1059¢ ...
Tags: Wool Indicator, AWEX Wool, Wool Market
Universal Furniture’s Don Essenberg, Kevin Miller, Jeff Scheffer and Sean O’Connor get in mop top mode for the new video. HIGH POINT — Universal Furniture is putting its musical talent on display again for a worthy ...
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Q: Here are photographs of plates that I hope are valuable. There are 13 of them, but originally there were 16. They are 10 ½ inches in diameter. I look forward to hearing from you, although my dreams of selling the set and retiring ...
Tags: Bohemian Glass Plates, Glass Plates, Glass
In China, women had different kinds of clothes in ancient times. Those clothes changed with the revolution of dynasties. For examples, in the 1920s, the Cheongsam was fashionable among socialites and upperclass women; during the 1960s, very ...
Tags: Women's Clothing, Cheongsam, Apparel
In 2012, Marimekko signed a partnership contract with Hong Kong-based Sidefame with the objective of opening a total of 15 Marimekko stores in China by the end of 2016. The first of these was opened in Hong Kong in May 2012 and this year ...
With embedded control systems, the risk of software defects becomes evermore critical and qualification of test and development tools is a useful approach for designers, writes Jeremy Twaits Oil and water - fire and ice - complexity and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Software
Youth research agency and games development studio, Dubit has bolstered its team with two new appointments. Adam Woodgate (pictured left) joins the firm as research manager. He arrives from BBC Worldwide, where he spent 20 years in ...
Tags: games, Immediate Media