John Lewis' Home directorate had a record sales week and this was reflected in its year-on-year increase of +0.6%. With the final few shopping days before Christmas still to come, last week John Lewis achieved sales of £160.6m +6.5% ...
Tags: retail director, Christmas trade, Furniture
Flowers, bushes, and flowering shrubs add eye appeal to any home's outdoor space. If you would like to feature ornamental plantings in your garden, you'll achieve the best results when you choose species that are suitable for the local ...
Tags: Grow Flowers, Bushes, Garden Climate
If you're looking for presents for the holiday season, host/ess gifts, or housewarming offerings, why not look to feng shui? Green and affordable, feng shui-inspired gifts bring positive energy into any setting and will enhance your ...
Tags: Feng Shui, Feng Shui Gifts, Construction
Ellsworth Adhesives, a global distributor of adhesives, specialty chemicals and dispensing equipment, is pleased to announce that its Spain, France, and Germany facilities are now certified to ISO 9001:2008 for the distribution of adhesives ...
Northline, one of Australia’s largest privately-owned logistics operations, has officially started operating from its new $21 million Brisbane transport and logistics facility at Redbank. The new facility, located within the Goodman ...
Tags: logistics operations, Service
This week saw sales at John Lewis of £108.8m, breaking the £100m barrier for the first time this year and matching the retailer's 2013 record for the earliest week to have reached this milestone. Lighting had its best-ever sales ...
Tags: John Lewis, pre-Christmas
ThyssenKrupp Stahl-Service-Center has invested in a blanking line, enabling the company to produce very small blanks. With the new machine, ThyssenKrupp will be able to cut slit strips measuring 0.4 to 3 millimeter thick and lengths ...
Tags: Thyssenkrupp, Blanking Line, Printing
Long before China became the go-to destination for foreign manufacturing, there was Hong Kong. During the 1960s and 1970s Hong Kong was a low-cost center for manufacturing and the electronics industry’s window into the vast market ...
Tags: electronics industry, Supply Chain
Analytiqa The UK Post Office is changing, undertaking the biggest modernisation programme in retail history and introducing longer opening hours across its network. Almost 2,000 of its branches are now open on Sundays, and over 5,000 ...
Tags: Australia Post, retail history
Technovaa Packaging Industries, the industrial arm of Darvesh and a major paper products/plastic film producers in the regional packaging industry, has broken ground for a manufacturing facility at Kizad, according to the Abu Dhabi Ports ...
Tags: Technovaa, Manufacturing Facility, Packaging
US-based packaging company Atlantic Packaging will acquire the three largest paperboard converting facilities of International Paper (IP) for an undisclosed amount. Acquisition of the facilities in Greensboro, Hazelton and Sturgis is ...
Tags: Atlantic Packaging, Acquire, Packaging
Japanese companies TDK and Toray Industries are streamlining their fund transfers to and from China to cut costs, a move many other businesses are expected to follow now that the Chinese government has eased financial regulations. ...
Tags: TDK, Toray Industries
For the second time, Brazilian denim fabric producer - Vicunha will be exhibiting at ‘Denimandjeans’ being held in Bangladesh from October 15 to 16, 2014. Vicunha will be mainly concentrating on 35 denim styles from 200 items ...
Tags: Denim Fabric, Denimandjeans
Analysts predict that by the end of 2015 that 15 billion devices will form the framework for the IoT, and this will increase by 235% to 50 billion devices by 2020. In the near-term, the majority of these connected devices will be wireless ...
Tags: IoT, Capacitor, Electrical
You must have a fantasy about you live in a forest with many trees. That scene is really let a person very yearning! This shadow pendant lamp (Forms in Nature) is designed by Hilden & Diaz. The lampshade is a very elegant sculpture, ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Pendant Lamp