Insurance Australia Group (IAG) is seeking to expand its foothold in the Indonesian underwriting market with an acquisition of A$100m ($102m) in Indonesia. IAG's Asia CEO Justin Breheny said the insurer has decided to partner with a bank ...
Tags: IAG, Indonesian underwriting market, acquisition, insurance
Efforts to manufacture sustainably have buoyed Sri Lanka's textile and apparel exports in recent months,according to a report in the latest issue of Global Apparel Markets which is published quarterly by the business information company ...
Tags: textile, apparel, exports, Brandix Group
The buyers of today on the hunt for price competitive production sites must take more than just price and the ability to supply into account:sustainability is needed in all aspects of production including the local working conditions,whilst ...
Tags: buyer, manufacturer, total process control, capacity
The exports of textiles,including apparels,from Japan dropped six percent year-on-year to US$781.49 million in September 2012,according to the statistics compiled by the Japan Textiles Exporters Association based on the data made available ...
Tags: textiles, exports, Japan, statistics
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — High-end American mattress manufacturer E.S. Kluft & Co. says it has opened three more stores in China, for a total of six, and plans two more before the end of this year. Those stores are just the ...
Tags: Mattress, American mattress manufacturer, American luxury mattresses
Sun Life Financial's US business group has signed an agreement with benefitsCONNECT to help expand its online enrollment capacity in group and voluntary benefits programs. As part of the agreement, the brokers and HR executives who offer ...
Tags: Sun Life Financial, CONNECT, online enrollment, benefits program
American agribusiness company Cargill has extended its sustainable cocoa program to South Sulawesi province,Indonesia,as a part of its strategy to develop sustainable cocoa production and increase the yields of farmers in the country. ...
Tags: cocoa, farmer, certification
Mediterranea, a distributor of in vitro diagnostic (IVD) equipments, has entered into an agreement to market and sell DiaSys' Parasys Parasite Analyser and RS 2005 Urine Sediment Workstation, and Midi Parasep SF Faecal Parasite Concentrator ...
Tags: medical equipement, company cooperation, vitro diagnostic
Nestlé UK & Ireland has gained Fairtrade certification for its 2-finger Kit Kat, as a result of which, the company will now buy an additional 5,300 tons of sustainable cocoa from Fairtrade farmer co-operatives in the Ivory Coast. ...
Pharmaceutical company in the US, Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD) has opened a new $21m packaging facility in Pandaan, Pasuruan, Indonesia, in an effort to step up its production for the Indonesian and Asian markets. The plant, which was ...
Tags: Medicine Packaging, Pharmaceutical, packaging facility
This year’s Australian International Sourcing Fair (AISF), co-located with the China Chamber of Clothing & Textiles, is all about making business easier. Bigger than ever before with more products in each category and many previous ...
Tags: Sourcing Fair, Clothing, textiles, home wares, sporting gear products
According to report, Swiss special steelmaker and distributor Schmolz+Bickenbach said that it sees the steel growth will be outside of EU as European economies remains week and slow recovery from downturn. The company aims on ...
U.S. cotton industry leaders met this week with senior U.S. government officials to discuss the serious financial losses accruing in all industry segments as a result of massive defaults on cotton export contracts. Industry leaders ...
Tags: cotton industry, cotton market, Cotton Council, cotton associations
According to International Cotton Advisory Committee's(ICAC)general outlook for cotton supply and use for 2012/13 is bleak:global cotton production and mill use are forecast at 25.9 million tons and 23.4 million tons respectively,resulting ...
Tags: cotton, International Cotton Advisory Committee, lobal cotton production
India Itme 2012, the 9th in the series and the most prestigious and anticipated textile machinery show in India and neighboring countries is scheduled from 2nd – 7th December 2012 at Bombay Convention & Exhibition Centre, Mumbai. ...
Tags: textile machinery show, Macchine Tessili, textile industry