United Parcel Service Inc (UPS.N) and FedEx Corp (FDX.N) are rolling out new pricing systems to curb online retailers' large package sizes, but industry experts warn many small firms are unprepared and could pay up to 50 percent more for ...
Guitar Center appointed Darrell Webb, formerly chairman and CEO of The Sports Authority, to be the company’s new president and chief executive officer. Webb replaced former CEO Mike Pratt, who resigned. Webb has more than 30 years ...
Tags: craft retailer, Sporting Goods
Specialty chemical supplier Mayzo Inc. has appointed Van Horn, Metz & Company, Inc. as its North American distributor of additives to the plastics, coatings, inks, adhesives, rubber and lubricants markets. “Van Horn, Metz has been ...
Tags: plastics, coatings, inks, adhesives, Construction
Hong Kong-based Hanergy Thin Film Power Group Ltd says that its subsidiary Beijing Jing Cheng is investing in the construction of a 300MW flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) module production line in ...
Tags: PV Module, Production Line, Electrical
Koch Optics Inc, a subsidiary of Koch Industries Inc of Wichita, KS, USA, has completed its tender offer to purchase all issued and outstanding shares of common stock of optical communications component, module and subsystem maker Oplink ...
Tags: Koch Industries, Oplink
Following its Manufacturing Advanced Functional Materials (MAFuMa) call issued in February, the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded £20m to 10 new research projects that aim to advance the ...
Tags: Functional Materials, Electronics
Altamont Capital Partners has partnered with existing shareholders to lead a strategic investment in Hybrid Apparel (Hybrid), a leading supplier of branded, licensed and private label apparel. Current shareholders, including Hybrid Founder ...
Tags: Hybrid Apparel, Altamont Capital
Apparel brand, Calvin Klein, a brand owned by PVH Corp, said it will expand operations of its ecommerce website to more than 20 countries by end of 2015. Calvin Klein said, individual websites, customized by market, share a consistent ...
Tags: Calvin Klein, Ecommerce Portal
Earlier in December 2014, Australian Food News reported that food manufacturing was one of four manufacturing sub-sectors to expand in November 2014, according to the Australian Industry Group Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index ...
Tags: Food, Beverage, Agriculture
U.S. jewelry and watch sales across all channels rose a preliminary 1.4 percent year on year in November, the month that marks the beginning of the Christmas-shopping season. While the increase was disappointing, compared with the ...
Green Biologics Inc. has announced the successful closing of its acquisition of the assets of Central MN Ethanol Cooperative LLC (CMEC). Green Biologics intends to repurpose the operation, which includes a 21 million gallon per year ethanol ...
Tags: paints, coatings, adhesives, inks, cosmetics, Construction
Union Process, Inc., known globally as a manufacturer of particle size reduction and dispersing equipment as well as related services for a broad range of research and industrial applications, has manufactured and delivered another large ...
Tags: single digit microns, Attritor technology, Construction
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today that XTO Energy, Inc. (XTO), a subsidiary of ExxonMobil and the nation’s largest holder of natural gas reserves, will spend an ...
Frankfort -based Zachary Confections, Inc. announced today a nationwide voluntary recall of one lot of Market Pantry Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds, sold exclusively at Target Stores, because they include peanuts which are not declared on ...
Tags: Dark Chocolate, UPC Code, Agriculture
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today announced the Sensors Marketplace, presented by the MEMs Industry Group, a showcase of the latest innovations in gesture and motion technology, at the 2015 International CES®. Owned ...