The cold spring and problems in emerging markets are likely to put a chill on Unilever's second-quarter and half-year results, predicts City analyst Investec. The cold spring in the northern hemisphere threatened to put the chill on ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, ice cream
Georg Fischer generated sales of CHF 1,837 million during the first half-year of 2013, slightly lower than in the previous year. Adjusted for currency effects, divestments and acquisitions, the figure is equivalent to last year?s first ...
Tags: Processing Machinery
Stephen Balaban, the 24-year-old founder of Lambda Labs, has created "an alternative operating system that runs on Glass but is not controlled by Google," he told NPR's Steve Henn. Though Google has banned facial recognition software ...
Tags: Glass, Google Glass, Consumer Electronics, google
Amazon is offering to cover 95 percent of the cost of vocational training courses to help its warehouse staff pursue jobs in other careers,including many that Amazon does not offer,the company said Monday in a letter posted on its home ...
Tags: Amazon, fulfillment center, customer, vocational training
The infant formula industry is in the spotlight again after the launch of a price-fixing investigation into foreign and domestic milk powder makers and intensified government efforts to consolidate a nationwide hodgepodge of producers. ...
Tags: Dairy Industry, infant formula
Europe's competition chief confirmed Wednesday that he has written to Google Chairman Eric Schmidt to ask for better assurances from the company in an ongoing antitrust investigation. "After the analysis of the market test that was ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Google has once again been told by the European Union that it must do more to allay fears that it is attempting to squeeze rivals from the web search market, after competitors - including Microsoft - voiced concerns that the concessions ...
Tags: Computer Products, google, web search
The government is to review Huawei's Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (the Cell) and will report its findings later in the year. The Chinese telecommunications firm, which has flourished on a global scale in recent years, has been ...
Tags: Computer Products, huawei
Carefour has recalled boxes of ‘beng-beng’ Chocolate Bars from Asian grocery stores in Australia due to the presence of undeclared milk and soy, according to the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ). The product, a ...
Tags: Chocolate Bars, Allergy Concerns
US-based Craft Brew Alliance subsidiary Square Mile Cider (SMCC) has voluntarily recalled 2,500 cases of Square Mile Original Hard Apple Cider and Square Mile Spur & Vine Hopped Apple Cider. The company has recalled two products, which ...
Cider manufacturer Square Mile Cider (SMCC) has announced the voluntary recall of 2,500 cases of its products due to concerns that cider from its first production run may be refermenting in the bottle. Refermentation is expected to cause ...
The countries that have signed CAFTA-DR free trade agreement may lose about 100,000 jobs in the textile industry if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is signed in its current form, which allows Vietnam to import raw materials ...
Tags: CAFTA-DR Textile Sector, Textile
The National Development Corporation (NDC) of Tanzania is looking for US$ 500 million to set up the soda ash factory, which would enable it to exploit over one million metric tons of soda ash deposits in Lake Natron, bordering Kenya. ...
Tags: Soda Ash Plant, Tanzanian Firm
The Australian financial services sector could be a major beneficiary if the Labor government is able to finalise the long-awaited free trade agreement with China. Analysts in Beijing believe China would be willing to allow Australian ...
Zact, the industry's first smart mobile service provider, today released details from a recent U.S. consumer survey looking at some of the hot topics and concerns parents are facing when it comes to mobile technology and their children. In ...
Tags: Smartphone, Consumer Electronics