REI reported record annual revenues of $2.2 billion, a 9.9 percent increase from 2013, and said it would double its investment in non-profits and new projects to create access to inspirational outdoor places to nearly $8 million. The ...
Tags: REI, Sales, Sporting Goods
Leatherman Tool Group Inc. appointed Bobbie Parisi vice president of marketing for its Leatherman brand effective Feb. 16. Parisi will be located at Leatherman's Portland, OR manufacturing headquarters and report to Leatherman Tool ...
Tags: Leatherman, Parisi, Sporting Goods
Recently, Sinotruk (Hong Kong) secured an export order of 100 trucks which is the second order after Sinotruk (Hong Kong) won the order of 194 trucks. During a month long negotiations, Sinotruk secured the order with high quality product, ...
Tags: Sinotruk export, Internationalization strategy, Auto Parts
Before you start kicking up dust this spring as planting gets rolling, make sure you're not only doing everything right but also avoiding the things you shouldn't be doing, whether it be small-scale agronomic matters or farmwide management ...
Tags: Soil test, Segments of the production equation, Agriculture
Heavy rains in Southern states are keeping farmers out of fields and delaying corn planting. “I can sum up conditions in one word: wet,” says Matt Myers with Myers Agriculture Consulting in Clayton, Louisiana. “We ...
Tags: The USDA NASS, Sorghum, Agriculture
The computing and telecoms industries are developing systems to store information in the cloud and analyze enormous amounts of data. IBM Research says that it has demonstrated what could be a key step toward commercializing this next ...
Tags: IBM, CMOS.Electronics
The firm is championing its prehistoric collection ahead of the release of Jurassic World and The Good Dinosaur. Tobar is expecting big things from its dinosaur collection this year as retailers prepare for the release of Jurassic World ...
Tags: Tobar, The good dinosaur, Toys
Tetra Pak is planning a push in the food packaging market with its cartonboard packaging offering. Tetra Recart was the first retortable carton package which enabled filled product to be sterilized within the package. A direct ...
Clarkson's 3D printable head can be added to Hungry Hungry Hippos in the wake of the Top Gear presenter's 'fracas'. 3D printing firm CEL has created a part resembling Jeremy Clarkson's head that transforms Hungry Hungry Hippos into ...
Tags: 3D Printing, 3D Printable head, Toys
Crows circle around the tract of cleared land that was once Hoya Corp.’s Pentax camera plant in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture. All that’s left is a sign directing employees to a dormitory and gymnasium, both pulled down years ago ...
Tags: Pentax camera, Toyota, Electronics
The Union government has launched a new institution, Handicrafts & Carpet Sector Skill Council to promote skill development among artisans, craft persons and workers at grassroots level. The Council will operate from New Delhi and ...
Tags: Handicrafts, skill development, Carpet
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has cut duty on spirits and cider by 2% and froze duty on wine and slashed the price of beer by a penny a pint for the third year now. In the budget speech presented in the House of ...
Pearl River Delta cities spend big on updating manufacturing model, reports Qiu Quanlin. An increasing number of companies in Dongguan and Foshan - two major manufacturing cities in the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province - have been ...
Tags: Smart Equipment, Robot Technology
Stadium Capital Management, LLC (SCM) said it has notified Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp. that it will nominate three "highly qualified, independent candidates" to serve on the retailer's board at Big 5's 2015 annual meeting expected to be held ...
Tags: Big 5, Proxy Battle
Firm releases a collection of soft play, sensory and activity toys, car and travel toys and sleep aids, all featuring Tiny Tatty Teddy. The Carte Blanche Group has teamed with Suncrest Trading to develop a new range of pre-school lines ...