Gross Domestic Product is a misleading measure of national success, say ANU experts. In a commentary piece for the latest edition of Nature, Crawford School of Public Policy's Professor Robert Costanza and Dr Ida Kubiszewski have urged ...
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Near the end of 2013, the factories all over the world began to restore the vitality. Manufacturing activities had the biggest growth in nearly three years, and global economic recovery will accelerate this year. Some signs that the global ...
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Truck drivers, cleaning-service employees and mechanics are among the most obese groups of workers, new research contends. Not far behind are health-service workers and administrative and clerical personnel, the study out of Washington ...
The European Candy Group (TECG), a private label manufacturer owned by Bencis Capital Partners, has acquired a Dutch liquorice firm Kraepelien & Holm (K&H). This move is part of the group's efforts to obtain a leading position in ...
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Construction employment increased by 122,000 workers in December 2013 versus year-ago levels, the Associated General Contractors said. Construction employment totaled 5.8 million people in December, an increase of 2.1% over year-ago ...
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Image courtesy of Wikimedia. German supermarket chain ALDI is setting its sights on Western Australia, and is inviting local suppliers to learn more about the opportunity of working with ALDI Australia. ALDI Australia is holding a ...
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Yesterday Harrison Spinks – the luxury bed manufacturer which hand tailors mattresses under the Harrison, Somnus and Spink & Edgar brands – was visited by the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg. The purpose of the visit was to ...
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The proposed project of Garments Industrial Zone to be set up in Pakistan’s Punjab province has been renamed as Punjab Apparel Park. Nodding to the proposal for name change during a high level meeting, Punjab Chief Minister ...
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News The U.S. trucking industry added 100 jobs in December compared with November as the overall unemployment rate dropped to 6.7%, the Labor Department reported Jan. 10. December’s increase in trucking ...
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Applying technologies originally developed for high technology government programs to our national energy and economic priorities, Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] is leveraging its expertise in the manufacture of Space Shuttle external tanks to ...
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The global service sector continued to expand at a solid clip during December. Although the J.P.Morgan Global Services Business Activity Index – a composite index produced by J.P.Morgan and Markit in association with ISM and IFPSM ...
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Here are a few things that have stood out for me from the past several days at the Consumer Electronics Show. 5G: The rollout of 4G LTE services may be still a work in progress, but that doesn't mean the folks who develop wireless ...
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Those who closely watch the Canadian transportation mergers and acquisitions scene have been bemoaning a lack of activity thus far in 2013. That silence was shattered in mid-November, beginning with the blockbuster acquisition of Yanke ...
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Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) announced today the opening of its new Unconventional and Reservoir Productivity Technology Center at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) located in Dhahran Techno-Valley. The new center enables ...
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