Xianghe county, Hebei province, lies within the triangle of Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan, and is 50 km from Beijing and 70 km from Tianjin. It is accessible via the Beijing-Shenyang Expressway and several other provincial-level highways. ...
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Financial services firm Old Mutual has been able to improve the service it gets from its IT suppliers, increase IT effectiveness and at the same time lower costs through the creation of an outsourcing strategy that is mutually beneficial to ...
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The Interroll Group, a global player in the fields of conveyor technology, logistics and automation, received a new order from Amway to supply Intelliveyor modules for roller conveyor lines using zero-pressure accumulation. Amway sells ...
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Hugo Boss, international lifestyle concern and world market leader in the premium and luxury segment has commissioned Knapp with the automatization of its new distribution centre in Filderstadt bei Stuttgart. With 400,000 storage ...
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The transport firm Eddie Stobart and Tesco drivers have reached a deal to end their four-month dispute. The row followed Tesco's decision to transfer the running of the Doncaster distribution centre to Eddie Stobart on August 5. The new ...
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Esprit, a leading international fashion brand and the Fiege Group, one of Europe's foremost logistics providers, took up operations of the new, highly-automated Esprit Distribution Center Europe (DCE) located at the Moenchengladbach ...
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Lenovo has announced it will open its first computer manufacturing plant in the U.S., where it will make laptops, PCs and tablets sold under its Think brand. Lenovo will open the factory early next year in Whitsett, North Carolina, where ...
BVG-Airflo, one of the UK’s largest groups of independent specialist mail order companies, has selected Intelecom to manage up to 10,000 calls a day and process around one million orders every year from 850,000 customers. Since ...
How did you come up with the Slow Toy concept? What inspired you? I’ve got a strong feeling about what I would call the ‘slow toy’. It’s a concept that was introduced to me when I went to France and met a lady ...
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Stemcor, the world's largest independent steel trader, has signed a long-term handling and storage agreement with logistics partner Katoen Natie in Antwerp, Belgium. The intention is to consolidate stocks of steel plate into a purpose-built ...
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Poundland, the UK-based single price value retailer, has booked an increase in full-year profits as value-conscious shoppers continued to visit its stores. In the 53 weeks ended 1 April, EBTIDA climbed 26.5% to GBP40.1m (US$62.9m), while ...
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Australian retail distributor Metcash has booked a drop in full-year profit. For the 12 months to the end of April, earnings dropped to A$90m (US$90.4m) from A$241.4m in the prior-year. Metcash blamed the decline on restructuring costs ...
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South African retailer Massmart has booked an increase in annual profits on the back of improved sales. The company, in which Wal-Mart Stores owns a majority stake, yesterday (22 August) filed an 8.9% increase in underlying headline ...
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Oman Observers reported that a team of Vale employees recently left the Sultanate to embark on a two and a half month leadership training program in Brazil which will enhance their professional and managerial skills by gaining first hand ...
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The Large Hadron Collider(LHC),which aims to answer fundamental questions of the universe's existence,is one of CERN's most important projects.But as the LHC produces 1PB of data every second,big data and lack of computing resources were ...
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