Enhanced Retail Solutions (ERS), a top provider of consulting and software solutions to the retail industry and their suppliers for use in analysing their products’ retail sales and trends as well as improving inventory productivity, ...
Tags: retail industry, Textile
Adidas, which had earlier this year announced its 2020 strategic business plan, has now unveiled an additional business plan for three of its key categories, namely, Football, Running and Originals. Within this new framework, each of the ...
Tags: Adidas, Football, Running and Originals products, footwear
The Presidents’ Meeting that took place in Tel Aviv this week highlighted five challenges facing the diamond industry, but the issue of profitability was the most pressing. Constituents of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses ...
Tags: diamond industry, mining
Earlier this year, I blogged about the excitement in China generated by the news that its Dalian Wanda Group planned to invest $1.09 billion to build and operate a luxury hotel in London. At the time of their announcement (made in the ...
According to a recent report one third of all food produced in the world ends up as waste, costing consumers globally more than £259bn per year. In addition, around 200,000 tonnes of the 15 million tonnes of food thrown away in the UK ...
Tags: Packaging
For its fiscal third-quarter 2015 (ended 28 March), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $83m, down 13% on $95.4m a year ago and down 4% on ...
Tags: Oclaro, CFP2 Module
Tesla posted a first-quarter loss of 36 cents per share on $1.10 billion in revenue. Sales rose more than 50 percent from the year-earlier period. The company planned to increase production by about 12% and manufacture 12,500 cars in the ...
Tags: Tesla, electric vehicle
Industry executives forecast the consolidated revenue of machine-tool maker Tongtai Machine & Tool Co., Ltd. of Taiwan to rise over 20 percent year on year to NT$10 billion (US$322.58 million) by the end of this year, basing such optimistic ...
Tags: machine-tool, Tongtai Machine&Tool
In the EU, packaging of consumer products has long been an environmental challenge for manufacturers and retailers. As governments try to meet national recycling and recovery targets, they are questioning manufacturers’ commitment to ...
Australian Made Campaign welcomes delay and more consultation on Country of Origin labels The Australian Made Campaign has welcomed the Government’s decision to consult with stakeholders and undertake consumer research into its ...
Tags: Made Campaign, consumer demand, Agriculture
The world’s top-performing companies are prioritizing sustainability as part of their corporate social responsibility efforts, and a majority of them are using LEED, the world’s premier green building program, to achieve their ...
John Laurie speaks candidly about his company’s growth over the years. As with most companies that have grown, there have been some hard lessons to learn, but those have laid a strong foundation for the Jack Laurie Group, which at one ...
A manufacturing-related reorganization is hoped to boost efficiency for the orthopedic and surgical device firm. Surgical instrument and orthopedic implant maker Symmetry Medical (Warsaw, IN) has announced plans to boost its manufacturing ...
Tags: Symmetry Medical, Layoffs, Medicine
Yakima Products Inc. announced a new go-to-market strategy for 2015 centered on enhancing the quality of interactions and deepening retailer partnerships. The strategy includes a major brand and product showcase event, a revised approach to ...
Tags: Yakima Products, organizational transformation, Sporting Goods