Philips Lighting has sold its Dijon site to the Nordeon Group for an undisclosed sum. The sale will give the Nordeon Group a hub for logistics and customer services in Southern Europe, with staff there highly experienced in these areas. ...
Gap Inc. announced that Sonia Syngal has been promoted to lead the company’s Global Supply Chain division, effective immediately. She succeeds Colin Funnell who will retire from the company, following a nine-year Gap Inc. career ...
Tags: Sonia Syngal, Apparel
Marine Atlantic Inc. recently announced that they will hold a stakeholder meeting in Atlantic Canada to discuss the potential return of a reservation system. Marine Atlantic Inc. shelved their reservation system due to the chaos it ...
Tags: Transportation, shipping, logistics
Europe's energy intensive industries are probably divided on the merits of power savings targets for 2030, but if the right mix of unambiguous and universal targets and measures can be agreed – and explained – opposition could ...
Tags: Construction, Glass, Glass Industry
Scania displays its China 4-compliant G400 4x2 and R440 6x2 heavy trucks at China International Commercial Vehicle Show (CICVS) from October 30 to November 2. Apart from that, it demonstrates the process to operate a "highly effective ...
Tags: Commercial Vehicle, Transportation
A team of journalists of "2013 National Online Media Tour Guangxi Trip" visits Guangxi Yuchai Group on October 28 during which they have in person observation on its engine production lines including heavy duty engine and assembly ...
Tags: Transportation, auto, truck
USFloors has opened a Mainland China office in Shanghai to provide local management and oversight of sourcing, quality, and logistics. The operation will be fully staffed and headed up by Julian Dossche, USFloors' senior manager of global ...
Tags: floor, Construction, Decoration
In a panel discussion on fuel surcharges at the CITT's National Conference on Supply Chain & Logistics today, Lou Smyrlis, editorial director of Truck News, asked shippers, carriers, and oil industry experts to weigh in on the discussion ...
Tags: Transportation, shipping, auto
Sydney Airport has invited members of the public to attend its annual Lost Property Auction on Saturday, 16 November, with proceeds of the auction going to charity. "While we make every effort to return the hundreds of lost items that are ...
Asciano Limited has acquired Newcastle-based integrated logistics company Mountain Industries Pty Ltd. The acquisition is in line with Asciano's aim to further develop the capabilities of its Ports & Stevedoring Division, and extends its ...
Swisslog Asia Pacific will exclusively include PAS technology as part of its solution portfolio following an agreement signed between the two companies. The PAS proprietary system is based on PowerStor, a cart-based automated storage and ...
Tags: Asia Pacific Transport, Transport, logistics, Service
With Australian retailers and suppliers facing increasing challenges from a rapidly changing digital world, a new three-day exhibition for the logistics sector has been announced for Melbourne in March 2014. The 3PL (third party ...
The HSBC purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China rose to a final reading of 50.9 in October from 50.2 in September, unchanged from the flash estimate released previously, HSBC Holdings PLC has announced. The final manufacturing PMI ...
Tags: PMI, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
When Google Apps arrived in 2006, it stood on the cutting edge of Web-hosted email and collaboration suites for businesses, a bold pioneer clearing a path in the new, wild frontier of enterprise cloud computing. Seven years later, ...
Tags: Google Apps, Cloud App
Toll Holdings (Toll Group) has negotiated its second issuance of US Private Placement (USPP) notes for the equivalent of US$250 million, which is anticipated to be drawn down on 4 December 2013. Toll Group chief financial officer Grant ...