Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 in July, and the unemployment rate edged down to 7.4 percent from 7.6 percent in June, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The unemployment rate in July was the lowest ...
Asahi Kasei Group announces results for 1st quarter fiscal year ending June 30, 2013. Overview of Consolidated Results 1. Consolidated group results Although the US economy showed signs of recovery with improving employment during the ...
Apparel Training & Design Centre, India's largest vocational training provider for apparel Industry, under the aegis of AEPC hosted the ATDC SKILL CONCLAVE with key panelists from Ministry of Textiles, All India Council for Technical ...
Tags: Apparel, AICTE Approved Curriculum
The National Retail Federation issued the following statements from President and CEO Matthew Shay and Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz on the July employment numbers. NRF pegged retail job gains at 37,000 in July, with increases in general ...
Tags: Retail Industry, Apparel
Inside the Winimac, Ind., manufacturing facility for Braun Corporation, there is a real connection between the workers and the work. As makers of wheelchair- and scooter-accessible vans and lifts, the facility's 250 employees recognize they ...
Tags: Transportation
Manufacturing activity in July continued its solid turnaround since dropping to its lowest levels since June 2009 in May, according to the Institute for Supply Management's monthly Manufacturing ISM Report on Business. The PMI, the index ...
Tags: Processing Machinery
After adjusting for seasonal factors, the HSBC Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) posted an eleven-month low of 47.7 in July, down from 48.2 in June, signaling a deterioration of business conditions for the third consecutive month, a company ...
Tags: Business Conditions, HSBC PMI
Blumberg Grain, a US-based multi-national food security firm, has signed a letter of intent with the Nigerian federal government to invest around $250m in the country's agribusiness sector. The investment will be used for the ...
Does your company have a driver retention problem, or is it actually a recruitment issue? Tamara Miller, director of programs and services with Trucking HR Canada said the two causes of turnover should not be lumped together. She noted an ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
Apparel Training & Design Centre, India’s largest vocational training provider for apparel Industry, under the aegis of AEPC hosted the ATDC SKILL CONCLAVE with key panelists from Ministry of Textiles, All India Council for Technical ...
In March 2013 the European Union and Japan began negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement. In the framework of a study entitled: "Economic effects of a free trade agreement between Japan and the EU" researchers from the Ifo ...
The State Resources and Enterprise Development Ministry will re-establish the now defunct cement factory in Kankesanthurai with an investment of Rs. 1.5 billion to make it operational within one year from the date of commencing the project, ...
Tags: KKS, Cement Factory
Protection of consumer rights still varies greatly between EU countries. Only 35% of Europeans are confident buying online from sellers in other EU countries and seven out of ten consumers do not know what do to when they receive products ...
Tags: Single Market, Consumers
The Government of India would soon unveil a modified Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS) with a provision to increase the interest subsidy on power looms from the present 5 percent to 6 percent, Textiles Minister K Sambasiva Rao has ...
Tags: Textile Industry
Few decades ago, African countries, including Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa, were listed in the list of world’s largest textile industries and currently the textile sector in the region is faced with several challenges. ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Textile