'Fun gift for boys' sign has been removed from all Tesco stores, after Maggie Cole spotted the poster in her local store in Dorset. The fight for gender neutrality in toy shops may have itself a new face, as Tesco felt the wrath of a ...
The Gaza Ministry of Agriculture is set to impose a ban on fruit imports from Israel, in a move to pressure Israel to allow vegetable exports from Gaza. Earlier this week, Israel stopped the vegetable produce from Gaza entering the ...
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US Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a senior member at the US Congress Homeland Security, has appreciated Bangladesh for being a role model for encouraging women working in the readymade garment (RMG) sector, while talking to Bangladesh ...
Tags: Role Model, women empowerment, Apparel
The backlash against sugar has changed consumer attitudes is effecting global markets, according to a new report from global market research organisation Euromonitor International. The report identifies 34 global markets, all of which saw ...
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Entries are steadily being submitted by exhibitors of the new January Furniture Show for The Furniture Awards, a new industry programme designed to give the stand-out releases of 2015 the recognition they deserve. Furniture News, working ...
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BBC News has reported that the Home Retail Group (HRG) has sold its Homebase store in Battersea to a residential property developer for £57m. The group plans to close 25 Homebase stores by early March 2015, citing the pressure of ...
Argos has teamed up with Transport for London (TfL) to launch its first Underground store at Cannon Street Tube station. The new Argos Collect store, which officially opened today, has been designed to give customers convenient access to ...
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Speaking to Packaging News, chief executive Wim Maes was upbeat and said that while the labels sector had accepted digital print technology, there was still work to be done in cartons. Maes was speaking as the digital press manufacturer ...
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Philippines Government officials have seized 150kg of frozen meat products worth P20,000 ($444) from Quezon City. GMA News reported citing radio dzBB's James Agustin that the National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) captured the meat from ...
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Russia’s veterinary and phytosanitary watchdog has banned the import of meat and dairy products from eight Belarussian companies. The banned companies include Agrokombinat Skidelsky, Vitebsk Broiler Poultry Plant, Servolux Agro, ...
Tags: Meat, dairy imports, Agriculture
The deadline for the United States Department of Commerce's preliminary determination in its countervailing duty investigation of passenger and light truck tires from the People’s Republic of China came and went on Friday, Nov. 21, ...
Tags: Tire Tariff, Auto
Mother Nature has the Midwest on a seesaw, and the ride is taking a cold turn this week after a weekend when warmer temperatures melted much of the snow on the ground from the previous weekend. Now expectations are for that ride to turn ...
Tags: seesaw, Weather Starter, Agriculture
Pie Face collapses into voluntary administration Australian food franchise Pie Face has collapsed into voluntary administration. In a media statement, the Pie Face Group confirmed Jirsch Sutherland has been appointed as administrators. ...
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ALDI Australia announces new CEO and structure change German-based supermarket group ALDI has announced a structural adjustment to its senior leadership organisation in Australia. ALDI said the change will support the ...
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Retail Food Group acquisition of La Porchetta collapses Australia’s largest multi-brand retail food franchisor and leading wholesale coffee roaster, Retail Food Group Limited (RFG) has announced that a deal to acquire the 70 ...
Tags: Retail Food, casual dining, Agriculture