UK smoking rate has been reduced to its lowest ever level since the recording commenced in the 1940s. Official figures are suggesting that the smoking prevalence among older than 18 years old users decreased from 19.8% back in 2012 to 18.7% ...
Tags: Smoking Rate, Consumer Electronics
Net sales at women’s apparel retailer, Christopher & Banks slipped 6.35 per cent year on year for the thirteen week period ended November 1, 2014, a reflection of its store rationalisation program. Net sales for the third quarter of ...
Stating that the new power tariff rate announced last week by Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) would seriously affect the competitiveness of the textile mills in Tamil Nadu across the value chain, the Southern India ...
Tags: tariff hike, power factor, Textile
In the past two weeks, China's stock market, long the subject of neglect, became a public focus, indicating the likely arrival of a bull market period. From Nov. 24 to Dec.5, 2014, the Shanghai and Shenzhen composite indexes rose by 18.13 ...
Tags: Stock Market, bull market
Prices of both imported and domestically-produced LPG fell another 9-12% in China this week after sliding 10-13% last week amid lower Asian LPG values and weaker demand from the petrochemical sector, trade sources said Friday, December 12. ...
Posted in Regulatory and Compliance by Kristopher Sturgis on December 12, 2014 Bill Maisel, director of science at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, holds CRM devices. Earlier this week the science chief of ...
Tags: Medical Device, Drug Administration, Health
Textiles has the lion’s share in India’s exports from labour intensive sectors, according to data from the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S), Kolkata, under the Ministry of Industry and ...
Tags: Labour Intensive, textile sector
City of Zombies has been sweeping schools, testing children's mental arithmetic stealthily. Zombies have entered schools across the UK and mathematics is fast becoming the new rock n’ roll of the younger generation. But fear not, ...
This week, ToyNews' Rob Hutchins reports from a Christmas themed Board Game Club, an emerging hot bed of inventor relations. Never let it be said that the game inventor community is a dull one. If you aren’t busy cooking up games ...
Jobs from Underground Toys and The Marketing Store available. Are you seeking work within the toy industry? If so, ToyNews has a list of roles now live on our Jobs Board, found here. You can also follow @toynewsonline on Twitter for ...
Tags: toy industry, design roles, Toys
Tomorrow (Friday 12th December) is the deadline for January Furniture Show exhibitors to enter one of their new products or ranges in The Furniture Awards, a new award programme developed by Furniture News magazine in collaboration with the ...
Spot export offers for Chinese magnesium ingot on a FOB basis generally remained steady, supported by stable domestic prices in steady trading volumes, industry sources said Thursday. Platts assessed its weekly magnesium ingot (minimum ...
Tags: Magnesium, magnesium ingot, Mineral
Specialty jewelry store sales in the U.S. fell 3.9 percent year on year to $2.37 billion in October. The sharp drop was not as obvious in the preliminary jewelry and watch sales total during the month, which Rapaport News reported on ...
Tags: Specialty jewelry, jewelry, watch
The beverage industry in the Philippines has opposed a proposal to impose additional tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, claiming that the tax would not tackle the obesity problem. The House Bill 3365, which was authored by Nueva Ecija Rep. ...
Tags: Beverage, Soft Drinks, Agriculture
Major ocean container lines carrying the vast majority of Asian imports to the United States have committed to not impose port congestion surcharges until 2015, according to the Federal Maritime Commission. The Commission, which regulates ...
Tags: ocean container, Asian imports