Global snacking company Mondelez International has launched Belvita breakfast biscuits in China. With this launch, the company aims to meet the growing demand for breakfast biscuits in China. The company has already rolled out the Belvita ...
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BASF has inaugurated its new production plant for concrete admixtures in Lagos, Nigeria. The production site is BASF’s answer to the increasing demand for construction chemicals in western Africa. BASF produces standard and ...
London-based Diageo and Dutch firm Heineken plan to exchange brewing assets in emerging markets, a move which will help Diageo generate a profit of £440m ($671m). Diageo is divesting its stakes in its joint ventures in Jamaica and ...
China’s strategic “One belt, one road” policy has sparked local manufacturers interests of exporting products abroad, but most are afraid to take action. Statistics from different research organizations have varied widely. ...
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The IATA reports that air freight volumes were broadly unchanged in August compared to a year ago, with freight tonne kilometres 0.2% higher. The August data shows a pause in earlier declines in air freight volumes, consistent with ...
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Major regional markets (i.e. China, the U.S. and Japan) and other emerging markets continue to drive the demand growth of this year’s photovoltaic (PV) market. The latest report by EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, says that the ...
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The recent drop in the exchange rate between the Chinese yuan (RMB) and U.S. dollar, the so-called "black Monday" on China's stock market and successive steep fall of the primary commodity market allowed much of the world to accuse China of ...
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2010-2014 China Import and Export Overview (Unit: Billion USD) Year I&E Turnover Export Sales Import Turnover Difference Total YoY ...
Two of the best known Taiwanese personal computer (PC) vendors, Acer Inc. and Asustek Computer Inc. (Asus), are aggressively targeting the mobile-device market, especially the smartphone segment, by launching several new cellphone models in ...
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The UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' (DEFRA) report has supported the use of new video imaging and infrared technology to estimate fat content and meat quality of carcasses in abattoirs. The technology, launched in ...
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Chinese automotive platform maker AVIC Automotive Systems has acquired Henniges Automotive which makes engineered sealing and anti-vibration systems for the automotive market. US based Henniges Automotive is known for designing, ...
Even though China's top 10 largest mobile phone exporters were still the international brands such as Apple and Samsung and their original equipment manufacturers, Chinese mobile phone manufacturers-led by TCL, ZTE and Huawei-saw their ...
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In December 2014, the Chinese government announced it would no longer be encouraging local governments to issue financial subsidies to LED manufacturers. The announcement which could have brought a sigh of relief to foreign competitors, had ...
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India has become the fastest growing photovoltaic (PV) market and replaced the U.K. as one of the top three exports markets for Chinese modules, found EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce. Based on EnergyTrend’s latest report, the ...
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Companies opt to relocate plants to Southeast Asia to cut labor costs, reports Lyu Chang. The label of "made in China", which was synonymous with the global solar industry, is in danger of fading out as a growing number of firms move ...
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