NYMEX parent CME Group has dropped a lawsuit in which it sought to prevent the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission from enacting certain swap reporting rules. In a Thursday filing with the US District Court for the District of ...
Center for Advanced Studies on Applied Economics (CEPEA) reported that Conab’s (National Company for Food Supply) forecast that the cotton area in Brazil might shrink between 20.2% and 27.4% has led producers to refrain from closing ...
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Private equity firm Permira has cancelled its plans to both refinance and sell the frozen food company Iglo. Permira had planned a dividend recapitalization with Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank and was expecting to raise ...
Italian and European food group Barilla has launched its Italian cookie line-Mulino Bianco in the US. The new cookie range will be available in five new varieties which include Baiocchi,Cuoricini,Galletti,Girotondi and Pan di Stelle. ...
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Checkpoint Systems Inc. reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 23, 2012. Net revenues decreased 12.5%, 7.8% on a constant currency basis, to $188.2 million from $215.1 million in the third quarter 2011. The ...
Bremen CIF Index reports that the indices of the reported week have considerably decreased after the weather conditions had improved in the major cotton planting areas and larger crop losses were no more predicted. General economic ...
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The UK Government has stepped forward to back an industry-led scheme aimed at reviving the textile manufacturing industry in the country through generation of around 200,000 new job opportunities over the next five years. As ...
Tags: textile market, textile industry, textile manufacturing industry, textile
After several years as the last remaining maker of rear-projection TVs, Mitsubishi has finally told its dealers that it will no longer make the DLP sets, essentially ending the era of rear-projection television technology. The decision, ...
Tags: LCD, rear-projection televisions, screen size, CRT technology
Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) has reported a net income of $123.32m, or $1.67 diluted earnings per share, for the first quarter of 2012, compared to $148.92m, or $2.02 diluted earnings per share, for the same period in 2011. The ...
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Center for Advanced Studies on Applied Economics (CEPEA) reported that after increasing for little more than one month, cotton prices resumed dropping in the second week of September, mainly because of the wider gap between export parity ...
Switzerland’s Zurich Insurance Group has reported that its net profit attributable to shareholders after taxes for the third quarter of 2012 has declined by 62% to $477m from $1.2bn during the same period a year ago. Total business ...
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Netherlands-based Contimeta has launched the new strapping machine Contistrap 280. The Contistrap 280, which is said to have the lightest battery strapping tool in its class, has high torque. Due to the positioning of the motor on the ...
Tags: strapping machine, lightest battery, strapping tool, high torque
UK supermarket chain Tesco has announced to drop labeling of all its products with carbon footprint, a few years after promising to label all 70,000 of its products. The chain will now phase out the label, co-developed with the UK-based ...
I mentioned last time the debate at BLC and beyond: Are flat bike sales for the past 35 years a good thing or a bad thing? Well, I'm a good-thing, glass-half-full kinda guy, as those who know me would confirm. There are SO many positive ...
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Not long ago, I discussed the advantages of integrating natural elements in your home office. Along with better productivity and less stress, a natural setting can also stimulate creativity. Tropical Home Office design by San Francisco ...
Tags: outdoor office, working outside, Tropical Home Office design