Dutch retailer Ahold has said it will step up its moves to cut costs in a bid to fuel further investment in the business. Ahead of a meeting with analysts in the US, the group said it will up its cost savings from EUR350m (US$454.7m) to ...
Tags: fuel investment, Giant Food, Food, convenience stores
Italy-based Marchesini Group will be present at Emballage 2012, the international packaging trade show from 19-22 November at Paris. The Group will present a bottlepack line (for pharmaceutical and cosmetic products) at the exhibition, ...
Tags: bottlepack, labels, packaging
Trimble has introduced its new cBin solution which consists of a remote sensor in a container and sends fill level and asset status information through wireless communications to a web portal that can be accessed to manage container ...
Plastic packaging manufacturer Petainer's kegs are helping Brewster's maintain their taste and quality. Made of PET, Petainer 30l kegs are resistant to oxygen pick-up, and they are lighter in weight than metal containers, said the ...
Tags: packaging, PET, less storage space, design
U.K. distributor 2x2 Worldwide has added Roux Bicycles to its portfolio and will begin delivery later this month. Roux road bikes are designed in the U.K. with a focus on various 700c models including touring, racing and cyclocross ...
Tags: Roux Bicycles, commuter bike, road bikes
Reuters reported that finnish nickel miner Talvivaara postponed the restart of mining at its site in the east of the country by six months due to rain-related problems, raising fresh concerns over its future metals production. One analyst ...
Tags: mining, nickel miner, Talvivaara, nickel output
Qingyang City is located at the easternmost of Gansu Province and located at the Loess Plateau of central and upper reaches of Yellow River. It is at the intersection of three provinces: Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia. It was called Beidi ...
Tags: Qingyang sachet, three-dimensional shaping and plane embroidery
Cape Town Tragedy - A woman died, and 19 others were injured, after scaffolding collapsed outside a Linkin Park concert in Cape Town, South Africa. The temporary scaffolding outside Green Point stadium came down in high winds just before ...
Tags: Linkin Park concert, music concert, injure, accident
Nonresidential fixed investment fell 4.4 percent in the third quarter of this year, according to the U.S. Commerce Department's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) report. This quarter's decline precedes a 0.6 percent increase in the second ...
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) may enter into a strategic alliance with Zurich-headquartered Swiss Re to set up a health insurance joint venture (JV) in India. Sources familiar with the matter told Moneycontrol.com: "Swiss Re will pick up 26% ...
Tags: L&T, health insurance, Swiss Re
Hawkins Architectural Products is investing in about $100,000 worth of equipment for its insulating glass line, according to an October 31 Fredericksburg.com report. The fabricator, which Grey Mountain Partners purchased in February of this ...
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Water-Splashing Festival is the most ceremonious traditional festival of the Dai minority. It usually takes place in mid-April of the solar calendar, often ten days before or after the Tomb-sweeping Day, and lasts three to seven days. ...
Tags: Water-Splashing Festival, Dai minority, Dai People, splash water
Overcapacity, a decline in pricing as well as slowing growth in key worldwide markets will serve to keep the global market for solar modules depressed for the rest of the year, with recovery not expected until well in the second half of ...
Tags: solar module prices, signs of recovery, IHS
Canada-based Global Vision has launched its new ScanTVS for the pharma industry, which can be combined with Contex wide format scanners for the inspection of proofs, labels, cartons, inserts and nested press sheets. The new proofreading ...
Over the past more than 5,000 years' evolution of the Chinese civilization, the wedding ceremony in China is still commonly referred to as "ru dongfang" (literally, entering cave chamber; i.e. the bridal chamber). Though mankind has moved ...
Tags: wedding ceremony, ru dongfang, Yellow Emperor, marriage system