The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) launched its new online data visualization resource that highlights real-time green building data for each state in the U.S. and Washington, D.C. The enhanced state market briefs — highlighting ...
Tags: Green Building, EPA, Certification
Skechers USA, Inc. reported earnings rose nearly five-fold in its first quarter ended Mar. 31, to $31.0 million, or 61 cents a share, from $6.7 million, or 9 cents, a year ago. Revenues rose 21.0 percent to $546.5 million from $451.6 ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has kicked off an additional program to ensure priority testing of lamb dishes from takeaway restaurants across the country, and prosecute the businesses if found to be deliberately mislabeling foods. ...
Tags: Lamb Meat, Substitution Testing
Specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, QuÉbec, Canada has appointed Bertrand Lessard as chief operating officer, effective 28 April. 5N Plus provides specialty purified metals such as bismuth, gallium, ...
Tags: 5N Plus, Electrical, Electronics
Simparel, Inc., a leading developer and marketer of Simparel concept-to-consumer software solutions for apparel and softgoods retailers, top tier brands and manufacturers, announces its participation in the Technology Solutions Pavilion at ...
Consumer goods manufacturer Henkel and Ball have joined forces to introduce a new, lighter weight sustainable aluminum aerosol can for the beauty care brand, Fa. The recyclable extruded aluminum can has been manufactured using metal ...
Tags: Henkel, Aerosol Can
EFI today announced that it has acquired Group Rhapso (Rhapso), a printing and packaging software solutions developer based in Les Ulis, France. While financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, it is not expected to be ...
Malaysian Prime Minister Dato' Sri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak officiated at the groundbreaking of an integrated aroma ingredients complex, set up by BASF and PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG) via their joint venture company BASF ...
Tags: Basf, Construction, Decoration, Chemicals
Wade Kawasaki is the founder and CEO of Avanche Corp, a group of small companies which includes Exports International, the company which his wife Rose Kawasaki still runs today. The Coker Group announced that its Executive Vice President, ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Auto, Transportation
Corn export demand has risen in the last month, and that's likely to push futures prices to a range of about 5 to 15 cents higher than a month ago, according to Wednesday's USDA-NASS World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Corn
The Michelin Premier A/S will be manufactured in North America at Michelin plants in Lexington and Greenville, S.C., Ardmore, Okla., and Pictou County and Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. Michelin North America reports the Michelin Premier A/S ...
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Maple Leaf Foods today announced changes to its organizational structure and leadership that will be effective upon completing the sale of its 90% ownership in Canada Bread Company, Inc. to Grupo Bimbo, S.A.V. de C.V., which is expected to ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Brewers Association (BA), a US-based not-for-profit trade group representing small and independent craft brewers, has reported 49% increase in craft beer export volume to 282,526 barrels in 2013. Of all the markets, exports to Canada ...
Tags: Craft Beer, craft brewers
Medical device contract manufacturer Norman Noble, Inc. today announced Noble S.T.E.A.L.T.H. (System To Enable Ablation Laser Technology Haz-Free), an exclusive, athermal laser machining process that represents an advancement of several ...
Ethical Clothing Australia (ECA) condemns the decision by the Federal Government to cut all funding to ECA and to abandon its ethical procurement guidelines. This decision will harm vulnerable home workers and ethical Australian businesses ...
Tags: Ethical Clothing, Govt Funding, TCF industry