As tech clichés go, “big data” falls somewhere between “cloud” and “social” on the list of terms you’re probably tired of hearing — ideas so broad they mean hardly anything at all. ...
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The ToyNews Retail Advisory Board gives its views on the first major holiday of this year "Easter is the second biggest selling time behind Christmas," according to some of the UK's leading toy retailers. Traditionally a gifting period ...
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UK retail sales for March were down 1.7% on a like-for-like basis from March 2013, when they had increased 1.9% on the preceding year, according to the latest BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor. On a total basis, sales were down 0.3%, against a ...
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US investment bank Goldman Sachs said Wednesday it has upgraded its three-month and six-month nickel price forecasts on the back of the Indonesian ban on nickel ore exports. The bank notes that following a fragmented Indonesian election ...
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According to the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), 3 billion square feet of green construction space has earned LEED certification around the globe. "This milestone is the result of leaders across our industry making the business and ...
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Vale SA announced Tuesday that it has secured 6.2 billion reais (US$2.8 billion) in funding from Brazil’s state development bank in order to expand its Caraja mine, the world’s largest iron-ore complex. The funds will finance ...
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US service center inventories of steel products contracted in March, while Canadian steel inventories rose to their highest level since June 2013, according to Metals Service Center Institute data published Tuesday. At the end of March, ...
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced that 3 billion square feet of green construction space has earned LEED® certification around the globe. "This milestone is the result of leaders across our industry making the business ...
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Iron ore prices are likely to drop to $115/dry mt CFR China this year, lower than Q1's $120.68/dmt average, forcing as much as 70-80 million mt/year of high-cost Chinese supplies to shut, Standard Bank said Monday. Iron ore reference ...
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Malaysia has approved a 20% increase in natural gas prices for industrial and commercial sectors in the west of the country, effective May 1, in order to reflect the cost of procuring more expensive imported LNG. Domestic natural gas ...
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The near-term supply shortage of ultra low sulfur diesel in Northwest Europe has forced up the forward curve backwardation to an 11-month high, and prompted the barges and cargo swaps to trade at the narrowest spread since October 2013, ...
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The World Steel Association (worldsteel) expects apparent steel consumption in the US to deliver a return to growth and recovery in 2014-2015, after a decrease of 0.6 percent in 2013, according to its short range outlook. Worldsteel ...
Tamper evident packaging supplier Versapak has designed new insulated bag to deliver pizza products for customers in a safe manner. The bag has been specifically designed for Spain-based Telepizza by using insulation technology from its ...
The revival, reconstruction and modernization of the Angolan textile mill AfricaTextil at Benguela, which began in March 2012, is about 85 percent complete, Koichi Nagashima, the director of studies and projects of the contractor told ...
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UK retail sales for March were down 1.7% on a like-for-like basis from March 2013, when they had increased 1.9% on the preceding year, according to the latest BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor. On a total basis, sales were down 0.3%, against a ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, retail sales