The Beer Institute announced a new initiative that encourages its member companies to display specific consumer information on products, packaging or websites. The Brewers' Voluntary Disclosure Initiative is an important new approach by ...
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Entertainment and character licensing remains the largest category, accounting for $113.2 billion, or 45 per cent of the total global licensing market. Retail sales of licensed products have jumped a significant 4.2 per cent on the ...
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The UK internet retailers have the potential to further improve protection for their brand and customers, according to a new study conducted by UK's Macfarlane Packaging. The company's 'unboxing' study involved assessment of the ...
‘New directions’ in packaging and labelling technology are a strong feature of today’s market – and the latest is digital direct-to-container print. It may, indeed, be a disruptive technology, as the new Direct ...
A recent survey has raised the question of whose lives our autonomous cars will prioritise. What kind of ethical decisions will the first driverless cars make? It might be a funny question, but it's one with serious implications. If a ...
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For a fourth consecutive year, EV Group of St Florian, Austria (a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor applications) has earned all three awards resulting from VLSIresearch Inc's ...
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An investigation by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IRAC) has concluded drinking very hot beverages probably causes cancer of the oesophagus in humans. The investigation did not ...
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Since 2015, Wuhan government has taken a series of actions to regulate muck trucks. Focus on new market demands, Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Company cooperated with Dongfeng Cummins to make survey and analyze the new features of muck trucks ...
New online hub has launched to celebrate the arrival of Mattel's Code-a-Pillar. Fisher-Price has kicked off its extensive marketing push to support the launch of its new Code-a-Pillar with the introduction of an online pre-school ...
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A new joint survey from UBS and the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) has found Australian supermarket suppliers are investing in new product development as a top priority. In releasing the results of the latest ‘UBS-AFGC ...
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The latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey results show that the steady increase in hiring intentions in Australia will continue into the third quarter of 2016. Of the 1,500 public and private employers surveyed, 13 per cent indicated ...
Australian government agency Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is calling for submissions on a proposal to consider changing the standards that regulate the issue of chemical migration from packaging into food. Assessing change ...
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Consumers are expected to spend an average $125.92 for the holiday, up from last year’s $115.57, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey conducted by Prosper Insight and Analytics. Total spending is expected ...
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IATA’s latest quarterly survey of airline CFO and heads of cargo points to further year-on-year gains in profitability during Q1 2016, following a record year in 2015. However, expectations of further gains in profitability over the ...
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Chinese consumer sentiment eased slightly in April, while a range of spending gauges improved thanks to a better outlook for retail sales and consumption expenditure in general, a latest study shows. The Westpac MNI China Consumer ...
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