No one is predicting a wine supply apocalypse, but when Morgan Stanley analysts believe wine flow is dwindling, the industry gets jittery. Released on Oct. 28, a Morgan Stanley report points to a 2012 wine undersupply: Including non-wine ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Italy-based Santoni S.p.A. reports it has improved its SM8-TOP1V knitting machine increasing its speed factor by 40 percent compared to that of other Santoni knitting machines. The speed increase along with a gauge change to 40 gauge result ...
Tags: Textile
The retro-reflective specialist has launched a new production process which adds embossed motifs to its highly popular fabrics and trimmings and will display at Performance days. The new 3D effect embossed motifs, applied on the ...
Overall orders of textile machinery for the third quarter of 2013 dropped 7% compared to the previous quarter. ACIMIT President Raffaella Carabelli stated "The slowdown in the Chinese market is taking its toll abroad, whereas in Italy a ...
Tags: Textile
Italy-based Trelleborg Coated Systems — a supplier of polymer-coated fabrics for industrial applications, and a business division of engineered polymer solutions provider Trelleborg AB, Sweden — is investing $10.6 million over ...
Tags: Textile, polymer-coated fabrics
Horst J. Kayser has been appointed the new head of strategy at Siemens, effective November 1, 2013. He succeeds Peter Herweck, who is to make Siemens a leader in the process industry. Janina Kugel, head of human resources at Osram, will ...
In September this year, new commercial vehicle registrations grew by 6.1 percent year on year in the European Union, totaling 160,038 units, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA). The month counted on ...
European non-performing loans (NPLs) held by banks have increased to €1.2 trillion (up by nearly € 100 billion in 12 months) driven mainly by reported increases in Italy, Greece, Spain and Ireland, says PwC in its latest market ...
Tags: Non-Performing Loans, Service
Erba the modular LED floor lamp is a 2009 prototype from the designers Simone Mussa and Umberto Rondolino at Mussa + Associates. Made in Turin, Italy this floor lamp explores gigantic blades of grass with LED light and models that are made ...
Tags: LED Grass, Floor Lamp, Lights, Lighting
Privalia, a Spanish online apparel firm, has signed a partnership agreement for creation of a chair at the ISEM Fashion Business School-University of Navarra, the first business school specializing in apparel and fashion companies that ...
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Reversing the trend of recent years, the Americas region is the king of the luxury goods spending hill, estimated to grow at four percent in 2013 versus 2012, surpassing the estimated 2.5 percent growth rate for China, as luxury spending in ...
Tags: Luxury Goods, luxury market
Fiat Group has purchased the remaining half of Italian diesel engine manufacturer VM Motori S.p.A from General Motors for 34.1 million euro ($49.3 million). The acquisition gives Fiat complete ownership of the engine maker, which supplies ...
Tags: Fiat Group, Diesel Makers
From January to September, FAW Jiefang Wuxi Diesel sees growth both in production and sales of engines with growth rates reaching 6.36% and 5.22%. According to analysis on data in recent months, both production and sales volume maintain ...
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In August 2013 compared with July 2013, seasonally adjusted industrial production grew by 1.0% in the euro area (EA17) and by 0.5% in the EU28, according to estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In July ...
Tags: Industrial Production
Internet access in the EU28 is widespread and today people use the internet for a wide range of activities, among others to order goods and services online. In the EU28 in 2012, 75% of individuals aged 16 to 74 had used the internet in the ...
Tags: Online Purchases, Online Shopping