Amer Sports appointed Vincent Wauters, currently general manager of Arc'teryx Inc., as president of Amer Sports apparel business and a member of Amer Sports executive board. Wauters will continue to lead the Arc'teryx brand. He will ...
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South African retailer Woolworths is on a mission to save water and to do so, is changing store designs in its retail store network across the whole African continent. The retailer has set out to drastically reduce the amount of water ...
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Accoding to CIL paint, the color you paint your kitchen can enhance your eating experience. That’s the message of CIL paint in unveiling its digital Culinary Collection of paint colors, featuring what it calls a mouth-watering palette ...
The new flagship Barker and Stonehouse store on Teesside Retail Park is being brought to life through the creation of the first living wall and roof on Teesside. Thousands of colourful plants will soon transform a south-facing wall and ...
Tags: Green features, Insulation, Furniture
The automobile industry has officially become the latest battleground for China's three Internet giants after Tencent Holdings Ltd announced a foray into smart cars. The owner of China's most widely used instant messaging app WeChat has ...
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Schur Pack Germany, makers of folding boxes, is building a 28,000 square metres folding box facility with an investment of around €70m, said to be one of Europe's most modern. The company is making this investment at the future ...
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Although logistics division sales expanded by a massive 66 per cent, overall sales at Li & Fung rose marginally by just 1.4 per cent for the period ended December 31, 2014. Li & Fung said total sales grew 1.4 per cent to US $19,288 ...
Tags: Li&Fung Sales, Global Brands, Apparel
Interbike will expand to fill a new exhibition hall recently completed at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center (MBCC) to accommodate several new amenities, including the addition of a new indoor test track, a new Product Innovation Zone, a ...
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Goodman Fielder CEO departs as sale to Asian giants settles It was announced today that Scott Weitemeyer will be appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Goodman Fielder, replacing Chris Delaney. The announcement ...
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Li Ning widened its loss in 2014 to RMB743.5 million ($125 mm) from RMB359.4 milion a year ago. Revenues rose 15.6 percent to RMB6.73 billion ($1.13 bn) from RMB5.82 billion. Li Ning warned in January that it expected to post a loss for ...
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LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has expanded its $1.5m commitment to provide LED lighting for new homes built in the USA by Habitat for Humanity (a non-profit Christian housing organization founded in 1976 that ...
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Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has appointed Ann Reo as senior VP of product development. Reo has more than 20 years of ...
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Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) is sampling its second-generation tunable SFP+ module operating at very high temperatures of up to 85°C with very low power ...
Tags: Oclaro SFP+transceiver, CDR, Electronics
The computing and telecoms industries are developing systems to store information in the cloud and analyze enormous amounts of data. IBM Research says that it has demonstrated what could be a key step toward commercializing this next ...
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Plastic foodservice and custom thermoformed packaging solutions provider Fabri-Kal is investing $50m in developing a new manufacturing facility in Burley, Idaho. As a part of the investment, the company will construct a new 100,000ft2 ...