Two-thirds of the world’s largest companies are reporting exposure to water risks, some of which have potential to limit growth. The news comes amid mounting shareholder concern around the business impacts from water scarcity, ...
Tags: Water Risk, water management data
To celebrate 25 years of furniture shows at the NEC, the all-new January Furniture Show has joined forces with Furniture News magazine to launch The Furniture Awards. The January Furniture Show will feature the UK’s biggest ...
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The new range includes a UK debut for the Karcher High Pressure Cleaner. Trends UK is feeling confident ahead of the New Year thanks to a “very strong line-up” for spring 2015. The firm will boast Bendastix, Color Me Mine, ...
The Crewe-based business is to be managed by investment firm Sullivan Street Partners, and employs over 100 staff, producing printed cartons, leaflets and labels. The transaction was an undisclosed fee. Medica has a strong heritage of ...
Tags: Medica Packaging, cartons
US Steel Canada announced Monday that it will lay off at least 56 workers following its decision last week to idle its Hamilton coke ovens. According to local news reports, the idling will eventually affect about 100 of the plant’s ...
Tags: coke ovens, Metallurgy
This year’s gradually improving business outlook looks set to continue into 2015, with the latest survey of Australian firms revealing that an increasing number expect to lift their sales and profits, sell their goods and services at ...
US tubular prices appear to be settling across the board concurrent with moderating skelp prices and demand, market sources said Monday. "Prices have firmed, but some more than others," one oil country tubular goods trader said. ...
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The JA New York Special Delivery show, designed as a pre-holiday cash-and-carry for retailers, closed Tuesday at the Javits center after three days of buying and selling. A number of retailers in attendance who spoke with National ...
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Spot import premiums for London Metal Exchange-registered brands of copper cathode on a CIF China basis generally remained steady but displayed signs of slipping amid persistent weakness in the physical buying interest, market sources said ...
Chinese conglomerate Evergrande has introduced a new brand of imported infant formula milk powder to cater to the increasing demand for infant formula products in the country. The move comes after the company acquired majority stake in ...
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US-based food processing company Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has temporarily halted cocoa roasting operations at its Schokinag processing plant in Germany due to fire at the plant. Early on 24 October, fire broke out in the roasting ...
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Car designer John Pangilinan has revealed his version of the 2015 Hyundai Sonata ahead of its official debut at SEMA news conference in Las Vegas. The car features 2-liter turbocharged engine which is capable of producing 245 horsepower ...
DBL Group, Bangladesh-based diversified and integrated knit garments manufacturing & composite industry with a strong backward linkage, is set to establish textiles and garment factory at a cost of 765 million Birr in Mekele town, northern ...
Lion milk success after packaging switch to highlight dairy farmers Food and beverage manufacturer Lion has announced that, since switching its Dairy Farmers milk packaging in Far North Queensland to ‘Malanda Original Milk’, ...
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Over half of UK consumers believe energy drinks are bad for ier health, but sales of the drinks are reaching record levels anyway, according to global market research organisation Canadean. Canadean said that to secure the success of this ...
Tags: Energy Drinks, Health Concerns