The UK’s fourth biggest supermarket Morrisons has “lost touch with its core customers”, claimed one leading city analyst, after the retailer reported total sales down by 0.5% over the six weeks to December 30 2012. ...
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Fresh food marketer in the US, Ready Pac Foods has announced that the company’s Ready Pac Bistro Bowl Salads line is set to use more than 56,000,000 recycled plastic beverage bottles in 2013. In 2012, the company launched Ready Pac ...
American Waste Control has joined forces with other businesses for the ‘unboxing Christmas campaign’ in a bid to encourage Oklahomans to recycle Christmas packaging. About four million pounds of recyclable products have been ...
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A study found that at the end of 2012, 51% of secure IT networks were breached from employees using personal devices. While over half of large organisations experienced breaches in security, only 25% of small business experienced the ...
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IDG News Service - Google has taken steps to close potential security holes created by a fraudulent certificate for its google.com domain, discovered in late December. The certificate was erroneously issued by an intermediate certificate ...
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Computerworld - Web traffic on Android tablets from various vendors grew substantially after the Christmas holiday, cutting the iPad's share by more than 7%. Nonetheless, Web traffic on Apple's iPad continues to outdistance the ...
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Over half of the UK’s business IT networks (51 percent) were breached during 2012 due to employees using their personal devices at work, according to research carried out by Virgin Media Business. Some 500 British CIOs were ...
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Tech gadgets have proven to be popular Christmas gifts this year, leading the last week of 2012 to see the most new device activations and app downloads in iOS and Android history, a new report has revealed. Flurry, a mobile analytics ...
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An open letter has been sent to Toys R Us CEO Jerry Storch in the US petitioning to withdraw UFC toys from sale. The petition from the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 was sent to Toys R Us over the Christmas period,reports Five ...
Aluminium recyclers are anticipating a surge in the amount of foil trays and wraps set to be received following the Christmas period, but it is still unclear if the bulk of material is recycled. It is estimated that as much as 4,500 ...
The CIS export market is on the NY and Christmas break now (the Orthodox Christmas is on Jan. 7th). So, there is almost no movement here. However steel billet price lost some points and market got closer to USD 515 per tonne to USD 520 ...
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Bloomberg reported that the Baltic Dry Index, a measure of commodity shipping costs, rose for the first time since November, lifted by gains for the largest vessels as miners sought charters to export iron ore or coal from Australia. ...
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NICKEL is on track to end 2012 as the worst performing base metal and 2013 doesn't look much better. In fact, the only hope for existing nickel producers is that some of the emerging operations strike technical problems in their ...
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Surprise acquisitions,top level exec changes,retail casualties and the London 2012 effect,the continued dominance of LEGO and Moshi Monsters in-store–not to mention some eye-watering charity challenges…the toy business has ...
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Australian miner Fortescue has announced that in December 2012 it loaded 8.5 million mt of iron ore at its Herb Elliott port facility at Port Hedland, Western Australia, achieving a record 100 million mt annualized run rate. Fortescue ...