South Korea's President park geun-hye and New Zealand prime minister John key announced at a press conference in Brisbane, Australia on Nov.15, the free trade agreement negotiations between the two countries has come to an end. The two ...
Tags: FTA, agricultural markets
China's imports shrank unexpectedly in November while export growth slowed, fuelling concerns that the world's second-largest economy could be facing a sharper slowdown and adding pressure on policymakers to ramp up stimulus measures. ...
Tags: export growth, economy
Genesco Inc. announced that James S. Gulmi, senior vice president and chief financial officer, has made the decision to retire from the role of chief financial officer at the end of its current fiscal year. Gulmi, who has served as ...
Tags: Succession Plans
British agribusiness Sundrop Farms has secured $100m in investment from private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co ( KKR ) to ramp up vegetable production. The investment will be used in the expansion of Sundrop Farms' greenhouse ...
Tags: vegetable, Agriculture
The producer of INOTEK, a biomimetic fibre, and technical director at MMT Textiles, a research and development company, Veronika Kapsali, has been named the Innovator of the Year at the ITMA Future Materials Awards ceremony held on 26 ...
Tags: Biomimetic Fibre, Bags Innovator, Textile
Firm's CEO, Richard North, has revealed 'strong profit' for the year, and expects the New Year to prove a success for Wow! Stuff. Wow! Stuff is predicting the New Year to be the second best performing year in the company’s ...
Tags: racing car system, Toys
GW Plastics Supplier in Mexico grow with OEMs. As Mexico's automotive and aerospace industries continue to see rapid growth, suppliers are being encouraged to locate plants near these OEM and Tier 1 facilities to help reduce cost and ...
Tags: Plastics Supplier, Health
The latest ABS Retail Trade figures show that Australian retail turnover rose 0.4 per cent in October 2014, seasonally adjusted, following a rise of 1.3 per cent in September 2014. In seasonally adjusted terms household goods retailing ...
Tags: Retail Turnover, Service
Women are an integral part of the transport and logistics industry (T&L) and have a great deal to offer organisations big and small, in multiple industry sectors and across all levels of management. A new paper prepared by Women In Supply ...
Seoul City Hall in South Korea. Andrew Hudson and Viv Lister Australian exporters are set to benefit from the KAFTA from as early as 12 December 2014, following a last-minute exchange of Diplomatic Notes between Australia and Korea, and ...
Tags: Trade Agreement, exporters, importers, Service
Japanese retail packaging is as culturally unique to Japan as its language, traditional dress and customs, and it took four days at Tokyo Pack 2014 to begin to make sense of characteristic traits in pack construction and consumer ...
Tags: retail packaging, Packaging
The Valspar Corporation has reported fiscal fourth quarter 2014 net sales of $1.2 billion, an increase of 11 percent over the prior year. Reported net income and earnings per diluted share for the current year include nonrecurring items, ...
FDA finalises menu and vending machine calorie labeling rules The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalised two rules requiring that calorie information be listed on menus and menu boards in chain restaurants, similar retail ...
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Driven by a large fall in the area planted to cotton, the production of white gold in Australia is forecast to fall by almost half in 2014-15, according to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES). ...
Tags: Cotton Output, cotton
Besides a 12 per cent fall in acreage, cotton output is expected to plunge 18 per cent in the Southern hemisphere, which covers countries like Brazil, Australia and Southern & Eastern Africa. According to ICAC’s latest report, ...
Tags: Cotton Output, cotton