Australian drinks company Coca-Cola Amatil Ltd’s underlying profit declined by a quarter (25.3%) to AUD375.5m ($292.8m) in the 12 months ending December due to drop in volumes of soft drinks. The firm's core brands saw dip in sales ...
Industrial thread and consumer textile crafts marketer, Coats plc has added David Gosnell as non-executive director, with effect from February 19, 2015, who will also chair the Remuneration Committee. David who retired from Diageo plc as ...
Tags: Industrial thread, Textile
Industry expands as an increasing number of Chinese people opt for healthier lifestyle Even when she was in her 20s, Tiffany Tang says she never felt so full of energy and healthy. Since starting to jog with her family and friends over ...
Tags: Fitness Sector, Exercise Equipment
Gold jewelry demand cooled in China in 2014, in sharp contrast to the frenzied off take in 2013, and plunged 33 percent year-on-year to 624 metric tons, according to data published by the World Gold Council on Thursday India displaced ...
Tags: Gold jewelry, Gold
LED maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA says that, following its complaint filed on 12 January, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) has agreed to open an investigation into unfair trade practices by Feit Electric Company Inc and its ...
Tags: Cree LED, LED Lighting
Valentine's Day brings bonanza for boxed bouquets of blossoms Florists recorded a surge in sales of roses in the week leading up to Valentine's Day, with more people ordering luxurious bouquets of roses packed in boxes. Flower retailers ...
Tags: Valentine's Day Roses, Red Rose
ProPhotonix Ltd of Salem, NH, USA, a designer and manufacturer LED illumination systems and laser diode modules for OEMs and medical equipment companies (as well as a distributor of laser diodes for Panasonic, Ushio, Osram, QSI, and Sony), ...
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Yarn Expo Spring 2015 which exhibits a wide range of fibre and yarn products returns to Shanghai from March 18–20, 2015 in Hall 7.2 at the National Exhibition and Convention Center. Yarn Expo will showcase natural and blended yarns ...
Brand & Retail, the branded apparel segment at textile and denim major, Arvind Ltd witnessed sales surging 21.1 per cent year on year in the third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2014. Net sales for the third quarter of fiscal 2015 in ...
Lower-tier cities will be focal point for expansion this year The fast-moving consumer goods market recorded slower growth last year, although momentum picked up in fourth-tier cities. The FMCG sector expanded 5.4 percent last year, ...
Rare-metal supplier Vital Materials Co Ltd of Guangzhou, China (which focuses on germanium, gallium, bismuth, selenium, cadmium, tellurium and indium) has further increased its production capacity for germanium metal and blanks, now ...
Tags: IR Detection, Electronics
China's central bank seems to have moved to stabilize the yuan despite mounting market sentiment that the currency has been toward the upper limit of its daily trading band for the past week. The reference rate the People's Bank of China ...
UOP LLC, a Honeywell company said its second unit to produce propylene, using its C3 Oleflex process technology has been commissioned in China. Zhejiang Shaoxing Sanjin Petrochemical Co., Ltd. became the second company in China to ...
Tags: propylene, Oleflex Technology
Karen Muircroft joins the firm having been involved in the toy industry for many years. Following a successful London Toy Fair, Kidicraft has appointed Karen Muircroft as its agent to manage Scotland. Having been involved in the toy ...
Tags: toy industry, Toys
A new type of electric power storage unit that combines the best of supercapacitorsUnconventional internal design yields a larger capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and dielectrics which permits the storage of electricity ...