The traditionally low-cost pasture-based dairying regions, such as Australia, have lost their cost advantage as input prices have risen, and now compete on the global market with a similar cost of production to producers with more intensive ...
Tags: Milk, Agriculture, Food
CFOs are frustrated with "excessive IT costs" and limited insights into their business despite IT investments, acccording to joint research from Oxford Economics and consulting firm AlixPartners. The two organisations initially brought in ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
NetSuite Inc., the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP and omnichannel commerce software suites, announced the top reasons businesses, in a recent survey conducted by market research agency YouGov, would replace ...
Tags: Switching ERP Providers, Textile
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Compliance, Safety, Accountability program is unreliable and does not effectively evaluate trucking companies' safety, the American Trucking Associations said in a white paper. ...
Tags: Transportation, truck, Auto
Worldwide, 14 million people developed cancer last year up from 12.7 million cases in 2008, the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Switzerland said. David Forman, bead of the IARC Section of Cancer Information, the group that ...
Tags: Breast Cancer, women health
Philips Lighting blogger Monique Cousineau publishes an interesting Christmas lights trivia article on the lighting giant’s website. How many questions can you get right? Below is the full blog entry: Christmas light decorations. ...
Tags: Lighting, Christmas Lights
ICE Cotton had its best week since August, gaining almost 400 pts to settle at 83.22 c/lbs basis H4. The USDA WASDE release on Tuesday was a non-event – failing to include an increase in US exports as had been expected by many – ...
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Google said its data centres in Taiwan and Singapore have gone online to cater to the growing number of Internet users in Asia. The Internet giant said in 2011 that it planned its first Asian data centres in Hong Kong, Taiwan and ...
Tags: Google, data centres, Asia, Asian traffic
After several rounds of meeting with the relevant stakeholders, the Supreme Council for Wages (CSS) has fixed the minimum wage for Category C employees, which include those working in the apparel export sector, at 225 gourdes (about US$ ...
The problems faced by the Indian textile industry can be broadly categorised as under:- - Lack of modernisation - Paucity of skilled manpower - Inadequate infrastructure According to the Report of the Working Group for Textiles and ...
Tags: Textile Sector, textile industry
Indian textile and apparel manufacturers need to adopt new and advanced software for improving efficiency, productivity as well as transparency in supply chain, according to industry representatives. In a conversation with fibre2fashion, ...
Tags: Higher Output, Textile Sector
Zhenghe Group has successfully carried out hydrogen desulfurization recycling for its gasoline and diesel hydrogenation unit during unit overhauls. There was a large quantity of hydrogen sulfide in the recycled hydrogen from the ...
Tags: Zhenghe Group, hydrogen desulfurization, recycling, hydrogenation unit
China Petrochemical Corp, Asia's top refiner, is expanding in Africa through investment and social involvement, Du Juan reports As Africa becomes increasingly important in the global energy structure, with growing proven reserves of oil ...
Tags: Sinopec, China Petrochemical
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released the final version of a voluntary plan to phase out the use of certain antibiotics in food animals. Antibiotics are added to the feed or drinking water of cattle, hogs, poultry and other ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Oil demand growth in the US this year is likely to exceed that of China's for the first time since the 1990s, skewing overall global demand in favor of developed markets, investment bank Goldman Sachs said in a new report released Friday. ...
Tags: US, China, oil demand