The unabated volatility in gold price has forced India's middle-class consumers to try out a cheaper option and their obvious choice now is to opt for silver jewellery.After an initial poor performance,last monsoon season in India improved ...
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October retail sales data released this week by the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation (NRF) were down sequentially and up annually. The Department of Commerce reported that October retail sales at ...
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(China Glass Network) On December 6 to 9, 2012, the first International Glass Technical Equipment Exhibition will be held on Pragati Maidan Exhibition Center, New Delhi, India. This is an opportunity for domestic enterprises to broaden the ...
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Government of Canada has launched next phase of the ecoTECHNOLOGY as part of its move to enhance clean vehicle technologies and offer cleaner transportation alternative. Canada Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Minister Denis ...
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A Portland Cement Association (PCA) forecast has predicted a 7.5% growth in 2012's cement consumption, up 50 basis points from its summer forecast. However, the PCA has said that instability in the political landscape makes projecting 2013 ...
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A rendering shows the larger store Ikea plans to build in Burbank, Calif. CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. --- Ikea plans to open a new 470,000-square-foot store in Burbank, Calif., in the fall of 2016, which will be nearly twice the size of the ...
A major China granary attracts one world-leading agricultural machinery manufacturer as it anticipates another record-high autumn harvest. The investment from American company John Deere, worth about 1.6 billion yuan ($253.6 million), has ...
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Heavy equipment makers are pinning their hopes on a stimulus fuelled rebound in China in 2013, after suffering another bruising quarter as the global economy slowed faster than expected with little respite seen before the end of the year. ...
The Weightless wireless standard has this week won the backing by a number of UK companies to try and establish it as the way forward for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. ARM, Vodafone-owned Cable and Wireless Worldwide (C&WW) and ...
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Thai blow molding machinery maker SMC Corp. Ltd. is spending 40 million euros ($51.7 million) on an expansion that will roughly double its capacity, reflecting what it said was demand from increasing population and economic growth in ...
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The head of Deere & Company, the world's largest agricultural machinery manufacturer by revenue, says the US company is to invest further in China over the next few years, as the country strives to update and improve the agricultural sector ...
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San'an Optoelectronics announced in the evening of October 19th that its controlling subsidiary Suncore Photovoltaic Technology Co., Ltd. has received special financial subsidy of 30.8 million yuan from Huainan government, making the total ...
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BT has accelerated its fibre broadband rollout,with the company now saying that two-thirds of the UK will be covered by spring 2014. It's the second time that BT has claimed that it is speeding up its plans,which had an original ...
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The COMPETE Trade Hub recently returned from a high-profile Origin Africa awareness and market linkages campaign in Europe and Asia. The Trade Hub participated in three international trade shows and organized Origin Africa Pavilions in the ...
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Digital skills in the UK must be increased in order to take advantage of the economic benefits of superfast broadband, said communications minister Ed Vaizey. Speaking at the Huawei Broadband Forum event, Vaizey said: "We need to make ...
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