The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is paving the way for the world's largest light sculpture. Designed by artist Leo Villareal, more than 25,000 white LED lights will be displayed across the bridge starting on March 5, and will be lit ...
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The 2014 London Toy Fair will take place from January 21st to 23rd, ToyNews has learned. The news comes after Simon Pilling, Head of Toy Fair Operations and Sales, says he was delighted with this year's show. "Toy Fair 2013 was a ...
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In Febuary , Los Angeles will meet its four-year anniversary of the world’s most ambitious LED street light conversion project, as Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and President Bill Clinton announced a partnership On February ...
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Upbeat housing forecasts, including a projected 22-percent increase in single-family housing starts for 2013, made for a giddy International Builders' Show in Las Vegas. Our editors and analysts were among the 60,000 or so attendees there ...
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Matrix System Automotive Finishes will celebrate 30 years in the automotive paint industry this year. Matrix System has announced plans to reveal a throwback label and new commemorative logo. Matrix System, established in 1983 in Walled ...
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ToyNews drew tens of thousands of visitors to its website during Toy Fair 2013, thanks to its unmatched coverage of the big London event this week. With 44 stories being posted by the ToyNew teams during the three-day event (plus more ...
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LAS VEGAS — In celebration of Feizy Rugs' 40th anniversary, company founder and CEO John Feizy will host a 1940s-themed party in the company's showroom here during next week's Las Vegas Market, complete with big band music. The ...
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Focus Lighting is a New York City based architectural lighting design firm founded by Paul Gregory in 1986. Focus Lighting designed the Entel Tower in Santiago, Chile, which was the first automated color-changing exterior lighting display ...
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UK-based Gordian Strapping's parent company, StraPack has launched two automatic strapping machine models extending the existing RQ-8 series: RQ-8x and RQ8000 to mark its 80th anniversary year in 2013. Gordian sales & marketing director ...
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One of the most colorful booths at the International Builders' Show belongs to Formica, the Cincinnati-based inventor of laminate, which celebrates 100 years in 2013. To mark the milestone, the company is unveiling its new Formica Laminate ...
It would seem Subaru has matured nicely as the marque celebrates its 40th anniversary in Australia – the launch of the new Subaru Forester XT is distinguished by the fact that, for the first time, the Forester turbo doesn’t get ...
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Paul Lamond is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who with a DVD board game. The game, which is on show at Toy Fair and launches this summer, contains over 100 clips taken from the sci-fi TV series and thousands of trivia ...
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Underground Toys is to continue making its Star Wars Talking Plush toys (previously a ‘Best Toy’ at the Licensing Awards) after resigning with Lucas Licensing. Also showcasing on the Undergound stand will be the new four-inch ...
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Russian retailer O'Key has seen its like-for-like sales rise during the fourth quarter, which contributed to a 24.5% increase in total revenue. During the period total revenues rose to RUB116bn (US$3.8bn). Gains were primarily driven by ...
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The International OEKO-TEX Association is for the first time presenting an award to companies who have achieved outstanding performance and innovations in the area of sustainability. The "OEKO-TEX Sustainability Award" will be inaugurated ...