In a three-year period, the small island nation of Mauritius was the highest foreign direct investor in the Indian textile and apparel sector, accounting for a little less than 50 percent of the FDI inflows into the Indian textile sector. ...
ATLANTA – Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $150,000 in supplemental funding to help clean up contaminated Brownfields properties In North Carolina. The Revolving Loan Funds (RLF) will help the Land-of-Sky ...
Tags: EPA, Brownfields Properties, Protection, Certfication
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing a total of $300,000 in grants and low-interest loans to the City of New York to clean up abandoned and contaminated properties. The funding is being awarded under the ...
Tags: EPA, Certfication
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing a $331,000 low-interest loan to the City of Rochester, New York to clean up abandoned and contaminated properties. The funding is being awarded under the EPA’s ...
Tags: EPA, Contaminated Soil, Protection
On its outlook for the third quarter of 2014, CRAiLAR Technologies Inc. said that although capacity will be constrained by a customary three-week shutdown and equipment installation during the third quarter, it expects third quarter 2014 ...
NASDAQ-listed and a branded uniform and facility services programs provider G&K Services, Inc said its full year adjusted operating income touched a record high in its fiscal year ending June 28, 2014. Full year adjusted operating income ...
Tags: G&K, Apparel, Accessories
ATLANTA – Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $150,000 in supplemental funding to help clean up contaminated Brownfields properties In North Carolina. The Revolving Loan Funds (RLF) will help the carry out ...
Tags: EPA, Brownfields Properties, Protection
Return on invested capital (ROIC) for the 12 months ended August 2, 2014 at garment retailer and NYSE-listed Nordstrom stood at 13.2 percent, down from 14.4 percent from same period last year. Nordstrom said, this decrease reflects ...
Tags: ROIC, Apparel, Accessories
PHILADELPHIA – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is announcing its award of $250,000 in additional brownfields funding to support revitalization efforts underway in Charles Town, W. Va. Today’s funding, through ...
Tags: EPA, Redevelopment, Service
International demand on the rise, especially in Asia, says VDMA survey, but domestic markets still drag. The European machine vision (MV) industry is in “an excellent condition”, according to the German VDMA’s latest ...
Tags: machine vision, MV industry, Machinery
Kinderhook Industries, a private equity firm based in New York, has purchased The Schawbel Corporation, maker of the zone mosquito defense brand, Thermacell. William Schawbel, founder and owner of The Schawbel Corporation, will continue to ...
Tags: Kinderhook Industries, Schawbel Corporation, Sporting Goods
Brunswick Corporation has agreed to sell its Retail Bowling business to Bowlmor AMF for $270 million, contingent upon customary closing procedures. Brunswick also announced its intention to divest its Bowling Products business. Brunswick is ...
Tags: Brunswick Corporation, AMF, Sporting Goods
AVEX, makers of performance water bottles and travel mugs, announced an acquisition by Newell Rubbermaid. Newell Rubbermaid has signed a $308 million deal with North Castle Partners, set to take effect in September, to purchase Ignite ...
Tags: AVEX, Newell Rubbermaid, Sporting Goods
Warren Buffett popularized the notion of investing in "cigarette butt" stocks. That is, extracting one last "puff" of value out of discarded stocks trading below liquidation value. Well, get ready to put a new spin on the term. Based on ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, e Cigarettes, e-Cigarettes
On Wednesday, July 9 Governance Studies hosted the 3rd annual John White, Jr. Forum on Public Policy. The topic was Regional Manufacturing Hubs in the US, and we heard from a number of different experts. As noted in a recent White House ...
Tags: Governance, Electrical, Electronics