Economists at the World Trade Organization (WTO) have downwardly revised their world trade growth estimate for 2015 to 4 percent from the previous estimate of 5.3 percent. For 2014 also, the WTO has reduced its world trade growth ...
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The LED (chips and components) market is forecast to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.5% from 2014 to $42.7bn by 2020, according to a report ‘Global Light Emitting Diode (LED) Market (Technology, Application and ...
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CEO and President Patrick Sandone recently hosted an open house for Net Driven's new headquarters in Scranton, Pa. So much went on at the inaugural meeting of the Automotive Dealer Council that we needed a second Web item to cover it all! ...
Tags: Tire, Social Media, Accessories
The ASBCI (Association of Suppliers to the British Clothing Industry) announces that its major industry conference, ‘Fashion’s New Frontiers – What’s Next?’ will take place on Tuesday 14th October from 10-4pm ...
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WhiteWave Foods, a leading consumer packaged food and beverage company that makes Silk, Horizon, International Delight and Earthbound Farm products, has announced green building certification of its beverage manufacturing facility in ...
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Deal now covers the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice film in 2016 as well as the Justice League movie and Arrow and Flash TV shows. Warner Bros Consumer Products has extended a deal with Mattel for toy lines based around DC Comics' ...
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First Turkey store is expected to open in Mall of Istanbul in June 2014. Build-A-Bear Workshop has signed a deal with Horizon Toy Company of Turkey to open a store in Turkey. Turkey's first Build-A-Bear Workshop store is expected to ...
Tags: Toys
New hicloud system allows clients to have total control and visibility over their products and supply chain partners. Horizon International Cargo has launch its own dedicated supply chain IT system, hicloud. hicloud provides a dashboard ...
Tags: Horizon, Supply Chain IT System
Honeywell announced a major enhancement to its Refinery and Petrochemical Modeling System (RPMS) that will improve model building and maintenance, case management, and optimization to help plants maximize profitability. The new release, ...
Burton's Biscuit, a UK-based biscuit manufacturer, is strengthening its manufacturing operations in the UK, with an investment of £14.75m. The investment will be made at the company's facilities in Llantarnam, Blackpool and ...
Many people consider quinoa to be a vital tool for food security in the era of climate change. But in order to be grown outside its native climate, this crop must be adapted by plant breeders. The challenge is that quinoa's seed is tightly ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Bruce Wayne. The Dark Knight. The Caped Crusader. Adam West. Michael Keaton. Val Kilmer. George Clooney. Christian Bale. Ben Affleck. Batman. The iconic superhero has enjoyed many different faces and even more batsuits in his time, and ...
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Fednav pioneers the use of drones in polar shipping Wednesday, Mar 26, 2014 MONTREAL, March 25, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - Fednav recently became the first shipping company to employ drones, or Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV), for ice reconnaissance ...
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Public companies subject to the SEC’s conflict minerals reporting requirements must file their first Conflict Minerals Report (CMR) by June 2, 2014. During the next several months, companies will need to make decisions concerning the ...
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As we have seen in recent months, energy storage is becoming a pretty big deal. California has the country's first energy storage mandate in place, and plants like Solana in Arizona have started trying to incorporate storage in from the ...
Tags: Salt, Storage, energy storage