The worldwide smartphone market will grow in the coming years, but new research suggests its meteoric rise over the past several years will start to slow over sluggishness in China. Smartphone shipments will rise 10.4 percent in 2015 to ...
Tags: smartphone, Android, LTE
Briscoe Group Limited, the New Zealand company making a hostile bid for the 150-store Kathmandu outdoor specialty chain, announced unaudited sales reached NZ$124.2 million ($88 mm) for the 13 week period ended July 26, an increase of 6.47 ...
Tags: sports products, homeware
Axalta Coating Systems has joined Ducks Unlimited as its newest corporate partner. A major developer, manufacturer and seller of industrial coatings in the United States and 130 countries around the world, Axalta continues to make ...
Western dances are increasingly slipping into Chinese fitness routines. Chen Nan gets a feel for the moves, once taboo in China. Belly dancing. Pole dancing. Salsa. Foreign dance styles are twirling into China with nimble steps, ...
Tags: Western dance, Latin dance
US-based start-up Wüd has introduced wooden skins and wraps to turn an ordinary box mods into luxurious boxes for e-cigarettes. Derived from 100% wood veneer, the skins and wraps are hand-finished, crafted and processed in the US. ...
Tags: packaging, packaging material, carriage, wooden wrap
Athletic footwear and apparel maker Adidas has announced an unprecedented partnership with basketball superstar James Harden of the Houston Rockets. One of the NBA's most prolific scorers and recognizable players begins the long-term deal ...
Tags: Athletic footwear, Adidas
Egg and turkey prices in the US will surge more than expected this year as a result of the severe bird flu outbreak in the country. Figures released by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) show that over 48 million chickens and turkeys ...
Tags: poultry industry, chicken, Egg
Bauer Hockey Inc. has signed Buffalo Sabre player Jack Eichel to its roster of athletes. ADVERTISEMENT Eichel, the 2015 Hobey Baker Memorial Award winner and second overall NHL draft choice, will exclusively wear Bauer equipment on ice ...
Tags: sport goods
Shipments of coherent 100G ports for metro regional optical networks grew 145% year-on-year in 2014 and will grow another 118% in 2015, forecasts market research firm IHS. Led by massive purchases in China from China Mobile, 2014 was a ...
COMO Connect in the City of Columbia, Missouri is set to take delivery of its maiden breed of first of four battery electric transit buses from BYD Coach & Bus next month. City Manager of Columbia Mike Matthes said: "This is a historic ...
Tags: Electric Buses, BYD'Battery
Good dynamics across all segments helped sales at German apparel marketer Tom Tailor Group climb 3.8 per cent year over year for the first half ended June 30, 2015. “Sales increased 3.8 per cent €441.5 million in the reporting ...
Tags: apparel, textile industry, fashion industry
Spurred by the summer weather and fixed interest rates, the group is hopeful consumer confidence will 'ride high into August'. Total UK retail sales have seen a 2.2 per cent lift on a like for like basis from July 2014, as improved ...
Using the newly released Ansys 16.2, engineers can now create virtual prototypes of complete systems, enabling them to make strides in innovation and unleash next-generation products within their industries. As products - from automobiles ...
Tags: smartphones, wearable technology
"In the Toys aisles, we’ll remove reference to gender, including the use of pink, blue, yellow or green paper on the back walls of our shelves." US retailer Target has outlines plans to phase out gender-based signage across its toy ...
Tags: Toy Aisles, Toy
Seeka Kiwifruit Industries has agreed to acquire Australian company Bunbartha Fruit Packers in a A$22m($16.1m) deal. The acquisition covers Bunbartha Fruit Packers' kiwifruit and orcharding business and its associated entities including ...