Supplier of uniforms, UniFirst Corporation said its revenues climbed 6.8 per cent and net income 8.6 per cent; both from a year ago quarter for its fiscal 2015 first quarter ended November 29, 2014. First fiscal quarter of 2015 revenues ...
Tags: uniform, workwear programs, facility service programs, Apparel
The United States is set to become an even more dominant market for the diamond industry in 2015. In a reversal of trends that have characterized the industry in the past few years, there has been a shift back from east to west as industry ...
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General Mills - the maker of Cheerios, Betty Crocker and Yoplait – is planning to shut two of its plants in Canada and the US in Ontario and Indiana, respectively. The closure is in line with the company's strategy to save around ...
Devices running the Android 4.4 KitKat operating system continue to jump up in market share, it emerged on Friday. The deliciously-themed update accounted for 39.9 per cent share of all Android devices visiting the Google Play Store in ...
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Apple has reportedly signed up rival tech firm Samsung as the lead manufacturer for its Apple Watch processor chips. According to Digitimes, Samsung is setting up to build several thousand 12-inch wafers per month using a 28nm ...
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Specialty womenswear retailer, The Wet Seal said it was closing 338 retail stores or around 66 per cent of its store count, effective on or about January 7, 2015. The apparel retailer decided to close the stores after assessing its ...
Kuwait-based Equate Petrochemical Company said it has successfully completed turnaround of its plants and also the first phase of the polyethylene plant debottlenecking project. As part of the exercise, all units were shutdown from ...
Tags: ethylene, polyethylene, ethylene glycol, Textile
New reports suggest that Samsung is working on a round-faced smartwatch a la the Moto 360. Until now, Samsung has remained resolutely square in its proliferation of wearables, much to the chagrin of design dons and fashionistas ...
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ntel recently ran a competition to find the best new ideas for wearable tech and the winner was a bizarre device called Nixie, a drone that straps to your wrist and can be flung into the air to take selfies. The user just pulls the device ...
Microsoft has announced it has opened up preview versions of its popular Office productivity apps for Android tablets. Following a limited beta, which began last November, Microsoft is making pre-release versions of Word, Excel and ...
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We’re just a week into 2015, but already you’ve probably seen umpteen articles about the Back to the Future II tech we have and haven’t got yet. To save you unnecessarily visiting Buzzfeed or whatever, here’s the ...
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The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service announced Tuesday it will intervene in labor negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) after the union joined the PMA in ...
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RPM International Inc. reported a 10 percent increase in net income and an 8 percent increase in earnings per diluted share on flat sales for its fiscal 2015 second quarter ended November 30, 2014. Second-Quarter Results Net sales of ...
The US government has finished reviewing tariff rates imposed in 2012 on PV modules imported from China and decided to reduce the anti-dumping rates to an average of 1.82% and anti-subsidization rates to an average of 15.68%. The total ...
U.S. online retail sales for the Christmas season, from November 1 to December 31, rose 15 percent year on year to $53.3 billion, according to comScore Inc. Cyber Monday, December 1, ranked as the heaviest online spending day of the year ...