While increased offshoring of manufacturing might be hurting the packaging supply chain, there is still “enormous potential growth in the packaging sector both sides of the Tasman”. This is the view of Greg Chapman, managing ...
Wholesale shipments of sports and fitness products increased by 3.5 percent in 2014, propelling the industry to total sales exceeding $84.2 billion, according to the latest State of the Industry Report published by the Sports & Fitness ...
Tags: Wholesale Shipments, Sports Industry, Fitness Industry
The previous design had been centred around Pleepleus, Zane’s monkey, which, though well know by his fans lacked the sophisticated, premium cues and credibility needed for it to thrive in the spirits category. Identica has given ...
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The Australian Government has said the Federal Budget, set to be delivered next week, will include measures to support small business. Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey and Federal Minister for Small Business Bruce Billson have said the Jobs ...
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The tide is slowly starting to turn in favor of the American furniture industry in terms of sales, but manufacturers and retailers continue to face numerous wide-ranging challenges. The American furniture industry is at a turning point. ...
The University of California, Davis researchers have received $5m in grants from US Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to carry out three new research projects. This financial support is part of USDA's ...
Tags: Food Safety Grants, food supply
Following rapid growth in community engagement, scrapbook creation and revenue growth, social discovery platform for women, LimeRoad said it has raised a Series C funding. This new financing ramps up the total funds raised to $45 million ...
Tags: Tiger Global Management, LimeRoad, Apparel
Of the cross section polled, the majority said that they were more positive about their own personal finances and the state of the economy than they were in February. Consumer confidence is at its highest level for 13 years, according to ...
GCiS China Strategic Research estimates that the domestic market of flame retardant chemical in China is valued at nearly RMB 6.8 Bn, or roughly USD 1.1 Bn, as of the year end of 2014. The study finds that the market will continue to thrive ...
Tags: Flame Retardant, Chemicals
Last year, Asia Pulp & Paper installed solar panels in China that are providing 70.5 megawatts of solar power. APP is to add another 200 megawatts across eight of its mill companies in China. That is enough to power more than 500,000 ...
Tags: Pulp, Paper, Solar Rooftop
From April 15th, retailers will no longer have to apply for planning permission for the initiative that allows shoppers to pick up their purchases in stores. All retailers will soon be able to offer click and collect services in-store ...
Tags: Retailers, Click and Collect, Toys
Play: Fun ways to help your child develop in the first five years will be available to purchase from May this year. Founder of the Good Toy Guide and CEO of Fundamentally Children, Dr. Amanda Gummer has partnered with Vermillion to launch ...
Tags: Amazon, Good Toy Guide, Toys
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has introduced two PICs for new optical transport ...
With Samsung having ditched Snapdragon chips in favour of creating its own Exynos offering for the flagship Galaxy S6, Qualcomm has looked for the positives in being shunned. While many would be weeping at the thought of lost profits, ...
Tags: Galaxy S6, Exynos Chip
Career uniform designer and manufacturer, International Uniforms, Inc. has selected NGC’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) fashion Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, NGC ERP XPress. NGC ERP XPress will provide International ...
Tags: Uniform, ERP Solution