Furniture factory orders in May were 6% ahead of May 2012, but were up just 4% for the first five months of the year, according to the latest survey from the accounting and consulting firm Smith Leonard. The survey also showed that May ...
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Manufacturing activity in July continued its solid turnaround since dropping to its lowest levels since June 2009 in May, according to the Institute for Supply Management's monthly Manufacturing ISM Report on Business. The PMI, the index ...
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Dialight, the innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, today announced that it has become an 'Accredited Supplier' in the Carbon Trust's recently launched Green Business Directory. The directory features suppliers which have ...
Three-quarters of the most common ‘crimes against fashion’ committed by women and two-thirds of the outfit offences committed by men result not from poor design or misjudged buying choices, but from poor fit, a survey from ...
Tags: fashion faux, Textile
Are you in the process of redoing your home? You also want to change the flooring of the house. There are different types of flooring from which one can choose. Stone flooring has been in use for a very long time, so is tile flooring. In ...
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China and the US are the top two countries with the greatest potential to drive technology breakthroughs and likely to have a global impact in the next four years, said KPMG that released results of a survey recently. KPMG’s 2013 ...
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Electric bikes and cargo bikes were the stars of the ISPO BIKE show held here last week. Some 5,500 trade visitors attended the show at Munich's expo center and a survey found that 66 percent of visitors said e-bikes and pedelecs were ...
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From January to June, the industrial profits of enterprises above designated size achieved 2,583.66 billion yuan, an increase of 11.1 percent over the same period last year, 1.2 percentage points lower than that in the first five months. Of ...
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The global smartphone market showed healthy growth in the second quarter, but Apple's iPhone was squeezed by competition from Samsung and other Asian manufacturers, surveys showed Friday. Apple's share of the global smartphone market fell ...
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The Chinese Ministry of Commerce is working with various departments to frame measures to boost exports, according to the Ministry’s spokesperson Shen Danyang. Replying to a question, Mr. Shen said the annual foreign trade ...
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Park Systems Corp, headquartered in Suwon, Korea, has introduced the Park NX-HDM, a fully automated automatic defect review and sub-angstrom surface roughness atomic force microscopy (AFM) system for device substrates and disk media. ...
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According to Northcoast Research Holdings LLC research, demand trends for tires at the retail level slowed in June compared to the same period last year. "While we were discouraged to see tire dealers report witnessing lower tire unit ...
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OEMs are now putting Chinese brands on their trucks, further breaking down barriers and quality concerns, says Walt Weller, vice president of CMA A wide range of topics were discussed by industry executives during the featured conference ...
Owens-Illinois (O-I) has partnered with Brazilian pasteurised milk producer Cooper to launch the ´Leite Cooper Premium´ in a one-litre glass bottle. The idea for the bottle arose from a consumer survey which indicated that ...
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Global multi-brand retailers wishing to enter the Indian market through foreign direct investment (FDI) route must comply with the mandatory 30 percent sourcing clause, Mr. KH Muniyappa, Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises ...
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