The latest report on working conditions in Cambodia’s garment factories, compiled by the International Labour Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia Programme (ILO-BFC), has found a slight improvement in factories’ ...
Tags: garment manufacture, BFC, footwear, apparel, clothing
Group revenues climbed 12.9 per cent year over year at UK apparel marketer SuperGroup Plc for the fiscal ended April 25, 2015. According to a press release, Group revenue was up 12.9 per cent to £486.6 million in fiscal 2015 over ...
The Illinois General Assembly has passed a bill requiring pharmacy firms to provide numerical locking device for bottles containing prescribed painkillers, to avoid abuse by children. The bill will be tested in a one-year pilot from ...
Tags: Illinois General Assembly, locking device, packaging machine
Honda has set a new Guinness World Records title for ‘Lowest fuel consumption – all 24 contiguous EU countries (all cars),’ recording an average 2.82 liters per 100km (100.31mpg) over 13,498km (8,387 miles), in a 25 day ...
Tags: automobile manufacture, Honda, New Guinness, auto parts
Japanese automotive giant Honda will adopt a twin-pronged strategy, involving the promotion of a global operation framework across six regions and designing challenging products. This has been disclosed by new Honda president and CEO ...
Tags: green vehciles, auto parts, Honda, Honda's Nigeria unit
While many use meal replacement shakes as a weight loss tool, how effective are they in helping us to shed the kilos? Losing weight can be really, really tough. So it’s no surprise that there’s big money to be made in weight ...
Columbia Sportswear Company portfolio brand Prana is expanding its European distribution network and has also added a new international sales team. As per a Prana press release, for more than 20 years, Prana apparel has had a strong ...
Tags: textile manufacture, Prana, sportswear
Many Taiwan-based ODMs hold the opinion that Windows 10 will not be able to boost large-scale PC replacements and upgrades because a large proportion of consumers mainly use PCs for Web surfing and document processing, and therefore do not ...
Tags: Windows 10, PC Demand
Craft beer is hot right now globally. With little money for traditional advertising, niche brewers are relying on striking packaging designs to win friends and influence beer (and wine) drinkers. The number of craft breweries in the US ...
Tags: beer packaging, new beer design, beverage
North Face announced the final winners of the 2015 Explore Fund $500,000 grants program funding 47 organizations throughout the U.S. The North Face Explore Fund chose projects that use outdoor exploration as the catalyst for positive, ...
Lionsgate has teamed up Hasbro to start development on the film. Lionsgate has teamed with Hasbro to develop a Monopoly movie. An adaptation has been in the works for a while, with Gladiator's Ridley Scott previously linked to the ...
Tags: Toy, Monopoly movie
Awarded in the best Outdoor Toy category, Lil’ Monkey will find out if it has been awarded a Gold, Silver, Bronze or Highly Commended accreditation at the Right Start presentation ceremony in October. TP Toys' Lil’ Monkey Dome ...
Tags: Right Start award, Lil'Monkey, toy
City Sports, the Boston-based specialty sporting goods retailer, has renewed their partnership with the Boston Triathlon. City Sports will co-produce two training clinics for first-time triathletes this summer with ethos, the owner and ...
For branded media tablets, or tablet PCs, the year 2015 is off to a rocky start. For the first time since inception, the popular consumer item experienced its largest quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) decline to date of 35 percent, in the first ...
Tags: Tablet Shipments Acer
A new study reported by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has found increased supply to be the main cause behind global obesity problems. In a report just published in the July 2015 Bulletin of WHO, researchers based in New Zealand ...
Tags: human health, global obesity, food energy supply, fitness equipment