A gauge of growth in the dominant U.S. services sector fell short of expectations for December, hitting a six-month low as indexes on employment, orders and business activity all declined. The FTSE 100 index was down 0.4 percent at 1209 ...
Tags: services sector, GDP growth
An image allegedly depicting action figure prototypes for the new movie has emerged. When Disney released its first teaser for its latest installment of the ongoing Star Wars saga, the online rumour mill span into overdrive. Now, Star ...
China's annual economic growth likely slowed to 7.2 percent in the fourth quarter, the weakest since the depths of the global crisis, a Reuters poll showed, which would keep pressure on policymakers to head off a sharper slowdown this year. ...
Tags: economic growth, GDP data
Australian pie franchise Pie Face has made a comeback from voluntary administration, with the appointment of a new CEO and the signing of a Deed of Company Arrangement. Pie Face launched in Sydney in 2003 and now has 89 stores across ...
Tags: savoury pies, pastries, cakes, muffins, coffee, Agriculture
An alliance of Australia’s beverage manufacturers has responded to speculation that New South Wales could introduce a Container Deposit Scheme for beverage packaging, saying recent research has shown such schemes are “many times ...
The new Australian Franchising Code of Conduct has come into effect, as of 1 January 2015. From 1 January 2015, the previous Franchising Code was repealed and replaced with a new Code which will applies to all franchise systems operating ...
The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) anticipates that, despite expected growth in cotton consumption this season, a world production surplus of 1.7 million tons is still expected. This, according to ICAC, will bring 2014/15 ...
Tags: cotton consumption, Textile
Jeep, the SUV brand that is key to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' global expansion plans, narrowly met its goal of selling one million vehicles in 2014, the Jeep brand chief said on Tuesday. Jeep's worldwide sales were 1,017,019 last year, up ...
Six years ago, the 5 Gyres Institute formed to answer a question the world had put in its too hard box. Marcus Eriksen, PhD, director of research for the 5 Gyres Institute, explained, “The 5 Gyres Institute’s work began six ...
The founder and MD of the UK toy wholesaler leaves to pursue new opportunities and develop the Slow Toy Movement. Founder and managing director of Asobi, Thierry Bourret, has stepped down from his role with the company. After six years ...
Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA, which provides compound semiconductor-based optical components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics market, has completed the sale of its tunable laser and transceiver ...
The US government has finished reviewing anti-dumping and anti-subsidization tariff rates imposed in 2012 on PV modules imported from China and decided to reduce the former rates to an average of 1.82% and the latter to an average of ...
Tags: China-Made PV Modules, Lights
Full Tilt Ice Cream in the US is voluntarily recalling all dairy based ice cream flavours as they may have been contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to the US Food and Drug Administration. The products associated with ...
Tags: Ice Creams, Agriculture
Saudi Arabia-based food producing firm Savola Group has agreed to sell its packaging unit Savola Packaging group to Takween for $242.46m (910m Saudi Riyals). The complete purchase price will be financed through a syndicate of Saudi banks, ...
Tags: plastic containers, barrels, bottles, covers, Agriculture
Researchers in Germany have developed gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on silicon carbide (SiC) layers on silicon wafers [Wael Jatal et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online 11 December 2014]. ...
Tags: Cubic Silicon Carbide, Electrical