The Chinese market represents a high potential market for premium clothing made in Mexico, because the Chinese consumers with high purchasing power now prefer American and European brands. The growing middle and upper classes in China ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
Japan-based underwriter Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance is engaged in advance negotiations to acquire a 15% stake in Thai Life Insurance, for nearly $700m. People familiar with the matter were quoted by Reuters as saying that the proposed ...
Tags: Service, Insurance, Life Insurance
International home sales in the U.S. declined in the past year, but are at their second highest level in recent years and are over six percent of total existing-home sales in value. According to the National Association of Realtors 2013 ...
Tags: International home, profitable investment, major foreign economies
A delegation of company owners from Spanish community of Valencia will participate in a trade mission to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), from June 11-14, 2013. The trade mission is organized by the Internationalization and Textile ...
Tags: Textile
Peru's exporters' association (Adex) forecast, jewelry production for the domestic market in 2013 will grow by 15%, thanks to the rise of the purchasing power of the residents. Adex association - jewelry and silver branch President, Julio ...
The rise of the "hybrid consumer" is an emerging trend with significant implications for food companies, food retailers and foodservice companies. According to a new report from Rabobank, consumers are becoming less interested in ...
Tags: Packaging, hybrid consumer, food
British real estate developer Barratt Homes has cast eye on Chinese clients. People close to it said recently that a building in the Canary Wharf, London drew rising attention of it because up to 75 percent of the owners of apartments ...
Tags: Service, real estate
Laurent Lamothe, the Prime Minister of Haiti, has urged Brazilian companies operating in the textile and garment sector to invest in Haiti. Paying an official visit to Brazil, Prime Minister Lamothe met Mr. Paulo Skaf, president ...
Tags: Haitian PM, Apparel, Brazilian
In any automobile, lighting is a very essential component. With continuous developments in LED and adaptive lighting technologies, many automotive manufacturers have ended up lowering the level of energy consumption in various lighting ...
The most sensible shopper? The premium-value food retailing trend will be driven partly by 'more objective' women enjoying greater purshasing power Consumers are becoming less interested in mid-market products, preferring to trade down ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
In the EU27, household electricity prices rose by 6.6% between the second half of 2011 and the second half of 2012, after an increase of 6.3% between the second half of 2010 and 2011. Household gas prices increased by 10.3% in the EU27 ...
Stage Stores, Inc. reported financial results for the first fiscal quarter ended May 4, 2013. Total sales for the quarter increased 3.5% to $379 million from $366 million in the prior year first quarter ended April 28, 2012. Comparable ...
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This newly renovated National Park Service building at Grand Canyon National Park is on track to receive a platinum LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. In 2009, in the wake of the country's economic ...
Tags: Office Furniture, Furnishing
Cairo Chamber of Commerce garment Minister Muhammad Deol said that despite all kinds of festive celebrations held in the spring and summer is coming, Egypt garment market downward trend throughout the country, especially in the central ...
Tags: Garment Prices, Garment
Beger Company, a Thai maker and distributor of wood coatings and industrial paint products, plans to set up its first foreign plant in Indonesia in the next five years to tap demand there. Vice-president Worawat Chaiyosburana said the ...
Tags: Paint Maker, Paint