Johnson & Johnson’s fourth-quarter medical device sales fell by 4.7%, to $6.6 billion, with the biggest drop (7.7%) in the U.S., the company announced this week. Total fourth-quarter sales were down 0.6% year-over-year, to $18.3 ...
Tags: Medical Device Business, Health
PGA Tour Superstore has signed a multi-year national partnership agreement with Golf Channel that includes a brand integration program and a strategic media buy. Among the many programming opportunities, “new product spotlights” ...
Asia-Pacific is home to the second largest number of public companies that rank top among their industry peers in terms of sustainability performance, a new annual report said. The Sustainability Yearbook 2015, published by RobecoSAM, ...
Tags: gold medals, Electrical
McGill University in Canada claims to have created the first electrically injected rolled-up semiconductor tube laser [M. H. T. Dastjerdi et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p021114, 2015]. Although rolled-up heterostructure lasers have been ...
Tags: optical pumping, tube lasers, Electrical
Posted in Regulatory and Compliance by Nancy Crotti on January 21, 2015 Just in time for the next wave of wearable wellness devices appears ready to roll, FDA has issued guidance statements about wellness products and medtech accessories. ...
Tags: type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, Health
In cooperation with international partners, Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland have presented what is claimed to be the first semiconductor laser consisting solely of ...
Tags: Group-IV Lasers, clock signal, Electrical
Deckers Brands, which owns the Ugg, Teva, Sanuk, Ahnu and Hoka One One brands, has appointed David E. Lafitte chief operating officer (COO), effective Feb. 2. Lafitte previously served as the company's general counsel and replaces Zohar ...
Tags: manufacturing, IT, inventory management, Sporting Goods
The European Union (EU) is set to lift the ban on Indian Alphonso mango imports, paving the way to resume trade in the UK and other member states. EU has suspended mango imports from India in May last year after finding fruit flies in ...
Tags: mango imports, fruit flies, Agriculture
Mitchells Family of Stores, an independent, family-owned, and operated luxury, apparel company joined hands with ThoughtWorks, a global retail solutions provider, to reenergize the luxury shopping experience through its ecommerce and ...
Tags: brick-and-mortar channels, responsive-design website, Textile
W&M Watson Packaging has completed acquisition of local polythene product distributor Peter Bryson Packaging (Scotland). The two companies have been working proactively for the past 12 months. With this deal, the original Watson ...
Tags: market share, Labelling, Agriculture
At the 2015 World Future Energy Summit (WFES) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (19-22 January), First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing ...
In an unaudited trading update for 2014, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that it expects full-year revenue to be about £112m (down 11.7% on £126.8m in 2013, but in line with expectations). ...
Sarika Sangar joins from a previous role working in a marketing consultancy. Wow! Stuff has appointed Sarika Sangar as the firm's marketing and video production co-ordinator. Sangar joined Wow! Stuff at the start of the year coming from ...
Tags: video production, role working, Toys
Honest Mum to present ‘How To Turn Your Blog Idea Into A Business’. One of the UK’s most successful bloggers will be sharing her tips on how to turn your blog into a profitable business that brings in serious cash, at ...
Adidas has entered a five year agreement to be the official athletic footwear, apparel and accessory brand of Catawba College, a small liberal arts college in Salisbury, NC that fields 18 NCAA Division II sports teams. Adidas will partner ...
Tags: athletic footwear, Sporting Goods