Blumberg Grain has entered into a partnership with the Government of Egypt to develop an integrated food security system for grain storage. The phase I of the project, which is said to be the world's largest integrated food security ...
Textiles has the lion’s share in India’s exports from labour intensive sectors, according to data from the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S), Kolkata, under the Ministry of Industry and ...
Tags: Labour Intensive, textile sector
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released its air cargo report and outlook. Air freight volumes continue to show solid gains on a year ago, supported by improving growth in trade in some regions, but weakness in load ...
Tags: load factors, yields, Service
Sintex Industries is expecting the phase-I of its textile plant near Pipavav port in Gujarat to become operational by March next year. This was disclosed by Amit Patel, managing director of Sintex. Patel was speaking to mediapersons ...
The beverage industry in the Philippines has opposed a proposal to impose additional tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, claiming that the tax would not tackle the obesity problem. The House Bill 3365, which was authored by Nueva Ecija Rep. ...
Tags: Beverage, Soft Drinks, Agriculture
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced that it has joined the Global Energy Efficiency Accelerator Platform, along with the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE). The Global Energy Efficiency Accelerator Platform is a ...
Welspun India Limited (WIL), part of the US$ 3 billion Welspun Group, has unveiled its new spinning facility at Anjar in Gujarat, which is India’s largest spinning facility under one roof. The new, world-class facility was ...
Tags: Spinning Facility, yarn, Textile
The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published the cumulative results from the first two quarters of its year-long survey of campylobacter on fresh chickens, which showed that 70 per cent of chicken sold in UK supermarkets were ...
Tags: Chicken, Campylobacter Bacteria
China's imports shrank unexpectedly in November while export growth slowed, fuelling concerns that the world's second-largest economy could be facing a sharper slowdown and adding pressure on policymakers to ramp up stimulus measures. ...
Tags: export growth, economy
Economists are calling for more proactive fiscal policies to counter the deepening slowdown in growth, as China's annual Central Economic Work Conference is set to start on Tuesday. The meeting, usually held in early December, sets the ...
The signing of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Korea is expected to result in a structural change in trade patterns between the two counties. The FTA and its consequences thus offer a rare moment for Taiwan to review its ...
Tags: free trade agreement, tariff rates
Textiles Committee, a statutory body under the administrative control of the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, has been conferred as the Best Accessible Website at the National Awards for the Empowerment of Persons with ...
Tags: Textiles Committee, Website, Apparel
China will focus on boosting economic growth quality and efficiency in 2015 and stick to the theme of seeking progress while maintaining stability, according to a high-level meeting of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Friday. China ...
Tags: economic growth, CPC
Stressing the major impact hunting and recreational shooting have on Oregon's economy, a broad group of local and regional leaders representing sporting organizations, small businesses and retailers today announced the launch of Hunting ...
Tags: Hunting Works, Sporting Goods
Zamst, a leader in high-performance sports protective equipment, has renewed its worldwide endorsement deal with professional basketball star Stephen Curry. Considered to be one of today’s best basketball players, Curry has has ...
Tags: Endorsement Deal, Sporting Goods