Independent retailer of solid hardwood furniture, Oak Furniture Land, has invested in two senior recruits in customer service and retail, as part of its continued growth strategy this year. Sara Bird joins the company in a newly-created ...
Tags: Furniture, Oak, Sara, Line management, infrastructure
A Scottish family-owned furniture retail chain has secured vital new storage space that will increase its delivery capacity and pave the way for growth in online sales, thanks to Clydesdale Bank. Furniture Mountain – which formerly ...
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Nearly 180 yarn and fibre exhibitors will participate at the Yarn Expo Pavilion, a designated fibre and yarn exhibition area within Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics – Spring Edition 2014 from 3 to 5 March 2014. The fast growing ...
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc., announced plans to develop Tanger Outlets Savannah in partnership with Georgia development firm Ben Carter Enterprises. Tanger Outlets Savannah will be a first-class destination for shoppers seeking ...
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A new study from the University of Copenhagen's OPUS Research Centre reports that being overweight makes children less active. The findings underscore that parents of overweight children have an obligation to keep their children active, as ...
Spectrum Brands, distributor of Russell Hobbs and George Foreman small appliances, has unveiled its Mother’s Day product line-ups for the two brands, with a strong focus on colour and healthy eating underpinning the range. Spanning ...
Tags: Mother's Day product, a new flagship grill, healthy eating
Back in the Middle Ages, Central Europeans were already capable of digesting milk, yoghurt and cheese just as well as us today. Researchers at the University of Zurich's Centre for Evolutionary Medicine have discovered that the population ...
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A new long-range wireless tag detection system, with potential applications in health care, environmental protection and goods tracking, can pinpoint items with near 100 per cent accuracy over a much wider range than current systems. The ...
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The 10 percent rebate available on purchase of yarn to the handicrafts sector, has now been extended to the purchase of woolen yarn as well as to promote handloom sector in India, Textiles Minister K Sambasiva Rao has said, Business ...
Tags: Woolen Yarn, Indian Govt
Logistics automation, warehousing, materials handling and storage systems company Dematic has introduced the FlexSort SC3 Cross-belt Sorter, a high-rate, high-accuracy sorting system for distribution and warehousing operations. FlexSort ...
Bing has barely any market share in China, but Microsoft hopes to change that in the next year or two by investing more resources into the local version of the search engine. The U.S. software giant is bringing more brain power to Bing ...
Tags: Microsoft, Chinese Bing, Windows Azure
The Government of Indonesia is laying emphasis on human resource development in the textile industry, as the industry is one of the mainstays of commodity manufacturing industries and an important component of national economic development, ...
Tags: Textile Industry, garments
Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. announced its CS3 Touring tire has earned a 2013 Good Design Award for innovation and quality. The company introduced the mid-range touring tire in June 2013. The award was presented by the Chicago Anthenaeum: ...
Tags: Tyre, Tire, Auto Parts
A doctoral dissertation by a Professor at the Catholic University of Valencia "San Vicente Mártir" (UCV) finds that every cigarette a mother smokes a day during the third quarter of pregnancy reduces the baby's birth weight in 20 ...
Tags: Maternal Smoking, Cum Laude, Alzira-Valencia, pregnancy
Major currents in the North Atlantic Ocean seem to be slowing down, according to new research from the University of Reading. The findings show that a recently measured slowdown of 10-15% may be part of larger decline that began in the ...
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