China's Cabinet is throwing more support behind small and micro-sized businesses by emphasizing more financing innovation and credit for the cash-thirsty private sector. 8 detailed targets have been released by the State Council, ...
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Holden’s Adelaide manufacturing workforce has agreed to revised employment conditions that include a three-year pay freeze to help protect the company’s future as a local manufacturer. The Australian Manufacturing Workers ...
Tags: Holden, Pay Freeze
Manulife Financial has entered into business arrangements to reinsure the travel insurance coverage sold by Canada-based RBC Insurance through travel agencies. The companies, however, have not disclosed financial terms of the ...
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The Mountain Bike Hall of Fame has announced its 2013 inductees and has announced a planned move from Crested Butte to Marin County, California. The Hall was founded in Crested Butte in 1988 and is located in a small storefront along the ...
Tags: Mountain Bike, Marin County
For most of us, a modern lifestyle without polymers is unthinkable…if only we knew what they were. The ordinary hardware-store terms we use for them include "plastics, polyethylene, epoxy resins, paints, adhesives, rubber" -- without ...
United Pulse Trading, a US-based supplier of pulses and special crops, has opened a $30m food processing plant in Minot, North Dakota. The new facility, which is located in Minot's value-added agriculture complex, will process lentils, ...
About 75% of India’s youth spend on cosmetics, apparel and mobile have surpassed Rs. 6,000 per month due to rise in pocket money, growing awareness, intense publicity campaign etc, reveals an ASSOCHAM comprehensive survey released on ...
Tags: cosmetic consumption, apparel
Air Liquide Group, the world's largest industrial gas producer by revenue, has launched the second phase of its investment program, called Tengfei II, in China this year. The program caters to the country's growing demand for oxygen, ...
Tags: Clean Energy Boom
Chile's Grupo CAP will complete in the coming months the launch of two major projects that will significantly increase the volume of sales of the subsidiary CAP Mining, surpassing its current output of 12-18 million metric tons. The ...
June May Increase Rate over Last Month Historical Average in June Non-manufacturing PMI 53.9 54.3 -0.4 57 New Orders Index 50.3 50.1 0.2 ...
Outdoor furniture producer Summer Classics has purchased a 429,000-square-foot building here for its new headquarters and distribution center. The company also said it expects to add jobs because of an increase in sales. With the ...
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Top 100 retailer Havertys said second-quarter profits more than doubled on a 12.9% increase in sales. The company, which has 119 stores in the South and Midwest, said same-store sales rose 11.2% and the average ticket was up 7.7%. Net ...
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The handloom industry is one of the industries which uses labour intensive techniques. The total number of people currently employed in this sector/industry is 43.32 lakhs as per the census of 2009-10. Handloom weaving constitutes one of ...
The improved offer came after talks in Leeds that finished in the early hours of the morning (Friday 9 August) between Unite, the country's largest union, the GMB union and the management under the auspices of the conciliation service Acas. ...
Tags: Packaging machinery, Packaging
Toray Industries, announced its consolidated business results for the three months ended June 30, 2013 of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014. In the period under review, while the European economy continued its downward trend and ...
Tags: Fibre Producer, Toray