Workers at the Port of Hong Kong have voted to call off their industrial action after accepting an improved wage offer and promises of further negotiations on working conditions – as well as an assurance that there will be no ...
THE sharemarket has closed flat, held back by weakness among the major banks and expectations of a pause on interest rate cuts following the release of encouraging jobs figures. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 1.4 points, or 0.03 ...
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Fiji could become the apparel making hub within the next 10 years and garment exports may become a major income generator for the country, according to Fiji Fashion Council. In an interview with fibre2fashion, chairman of Fiji Fashion ...
UK-based contract bottling company H&A Prestige Packing has announced the opening of a new bottling line at its Chorley facility. The new line, which has been designed to handle various sizes ranging from 187ml to 1.5l, will enable the ...
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China's purchasing managers' index (PMI) for its domestic manufacturing sector was at 50.6 percent in April this year, down 0.3 percentage points compared to March, according to the figures released by China's National Bureau of Statistics ...
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More than 20 percent of data brokers checked by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission allegedly violated a U.S. privacy law when sharing personal data with agency workers posing as companies wanting to purchase information. This week, the FTC ...
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A new study commissioned by the National Retail Federation and other trade associations shows that imported merchandise has considerably lowered the price of consumer goods for American families while creating millions of jobs for American ...
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Furniture Today will broadcast an exclusive webcast on June 5 by Jerry Epperson on the "State of the Industry" in 2013, sponsored by Nationwide Marketing Group. Click here for details. "2013 began with lots of challenges, mostly out of ...
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Anglo–Dutch consumer goods company Unilever has sold its former ice cream plant in Hagerstown, Maryland to a joint venture of New Mill Capital (NMC) and M Davis Group (MDG). The 142,000ft2 plant, which ceased production in the Fall ...
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Australian businesses will keep cutting their spending this year, with expectations for capital investment, employment and new credit set to fall further. The deteriorating outlook for the September quarter suggests that despite pockets ...
A modern textile technology development centre - Centro de Desarrollo Tecnológico Textil (CEDETEX) has been inaugurated by Mario Lopez Valdez, governor of Sinaloa state of Mexico. CEDETEX, established at a cost of approximately ...
Bangladesh’s Textiles and Jute Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui will head the committee constituted by the Government to monitor the working condition and welfare of the workers in the country’s readymade garment (RMG) sector. ...
The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) welcomed the release of “Imports Work for America,” a study by Trade Partnership Worldwide, LLC, that measures the comprehensive net effect of imports on the U.S. economy. In ...
If you are looking for greater career to become well settled in the economic conditions, most of the people would and opt for corporate jobs. But, in these days all over the world, corporate people are very much busy in fighting with ...
Global property and casualty insurer ACE Group has launched new ACE Express Private and ACE Express Not-For-Profit health care protection polices to provide comprehensive management liability coverage for health care organizations. ...