Australian governments have spent unprecedented sums on transport infrastructure in the past decade, and while important projects have been built the overall investment has been poorly directed, according to a new Grattan Institute report. ...
ICTI Care's Mark Robertson outlines how a raft of new legislation, coming into effect today, means toy companies must take a closer look at their supply chain. Modern Day Slavery continues to make the headlines, and for very good reason. ...
Tags: Modern Day Slavery Act, ITCT CARE
When it comes to pricing and market expectations, 2015 was another tough competitive year for packaged LED vendors, with challenges in both backlighting and lighting, comments Jamie Fox (principal analyst for Lighting and LEDs at IHS ...
Tags: LED market, Packaged Led Maker, Samsung
Chinese companies are widely considered as the forerunner for the proposed high-speed railway project linking the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, a local media reported on Sunday. A series of recent investment by Chinese ...
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With only three days left on its crowd-funding campaign, social enterprise Thankyou has announced that a donor will match every dollar raised by the public up to the value of $250,000. The Chapter One crowd-funding campaign, which kicked ...
Coles has been a focus of the TWU’s road transport campaign promoting ‘Safe Rates’. The Transport Workers’ Union has lodged an application at the road safety watchdog to force major retailers to pay transport ...
Tags: TWU, Coles, Safe Rates, Retail front
Kaiser Permanente Colorado is reaffirming its commitment to diminishing the rates of hunger in this state by providing 13 local nonprofits a portion of a $1m grant that aims to increase access to food for all Coloradans. "Hunger is a ...
Coca-Cola South Pacific is now selling a new flavour of Fanta in Australia, ‘Strawberry Sherbet Fizz’. The drink is described as fruity with “extra tingles”. It will only be sold for one year. Strawberry ...
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Scandal-hit Volkswagen has got another jolt, as nearly 300 of its institutional investors have filed a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against the global automobile major. The law firm representing the investors said that the carmaker has ...
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Knit & crochet exports ranked 4th in the list of the highest dollar value in Chinese global shipments during 2014. The export value was USD 92 billion and the percentage share was 3.9%. The analysis is as below. Export Value Trend of ...
Tags: Knit, Crochet Clothing
Taiwan-based Everlight Electronics Co Ltd has updated its range of top-view, white, low- to mid-power LEDs in 2835 form-factor (2.8mm x 3.5mm x 0.7mm) packages by adding versions operating at three voltages 3V, 6V, 9V at 0.5W and two ...
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd of Seoul, South Korea has introduced a full line-up of chip-scale LED packages (CSP), including 0.6W-class and 3W-class packages, CSP arrays, and PoW (Phosphor on Wafer) packages. Samsung says that its CSP ...
In February, Brazil recorded corn exports of 5.37 million tons. According to data from the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, this is almost five times higher than exports for February 2015, which stood at 1.10 million ...
Tags: Corn Export, Corn
Adidas Group reported a narrower loss in the fourth quarter as gross margins expanded and currency-neutral sales jumped 12 percent, driven by accelerated momentum at both Adidas and Reebok. On a currency-neutral basis, sales grew 16 percent ...
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The recovery in air freight volumes from a weak first half of last year continued into 2016, although subdued underlying global trade conditions suggest another modest year for volumes growth, reports the IATA. Ongoing strong capacity ...
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