The Government of Pakistan would make a comprehensive plan, including both long and short term strategies, for the revival of the textile industry in the country, Abbas Khan Afridi, Federal Minister for Textile Industry has said. ...
In 2013, sales of cigarettes rose 0.3% to figure of 21.1bn cigarettes, according to industry data provided by Marlboro maker Philip Morris International and reported in today’s Telegraph. The increase follows four straight years of ...
It's 3am on the first day of 2014. Shanghai's Hengshan Road, an area popular for restaurants and nightclubs, is lit up with what seems like hundreds of bright green taxi lights, inviting the rowdy New Year's crowd to hop in. But the drivers ...
Tags: Taxi Apps, Government Regulations, taxi
Fonterra today announced the launch of the China-New Zealand Dairy Exchange Centre in Beijing. The Centre is a joint initiative between Fonterra and China's National Dairy Industry and Technology System to support the sustainable ...
Tags: Dairy Industry, Agriculture, Food
State-owned PetroChina lost some Yuan 49 billion ($7.9 billion) last year importing natural gas from foreign suppliers and selling it at lower domestic prices in China, the company revealed Thursday when it released its 2013 financial ...
Tags: Natural Gas, PetroChina, pipeline gas
The market has remained undecided as to where it wants to go next, with the last eleven sessions closing in a narrow range of just 166 points. The structure is still more or less the same in current crop futures, with specs and index funds ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, crop futures, on-call sales
ICE Cotton traded slightly higher this week despite the nearby cash market grinding to a virtual standstill. Current crop export sales were just enough to support the market, while the attractiveness of SH 2014 offers at 1000 pts less than ...
Tags: Cotton Trends, cash market, crop export
World-renowned clothing brands such as Zara, United Colors of Benetton, Gruppo Marzoto, Lanerossi, Marchi e Fildi S.P.A, Fratelli Piacenza S.P.A and H&M would be using Kazakhstan wool for manufacturing their apparel products, as a result of ...
Tags: Zara, Benetton, Kazakh Wool, Clothing
Swedish commercial vehicle manufacturer Scania and Ministry for Transport in Ghana have entered into an agreement, under which Scania will supply buses and equipment for the bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Accra. Under this deal, the ...
Tags: commercial vehicle, truck, bus
General Mills today reported results for the third quarter of fiscal 2014. Sales and operating profit for the 13 weeks ended Feb. 23, 2014, reflect lower volumes, consistent with generally weak food industry trends during this period; the ...
PepsiCo believes acting ethically and responsibly is not only the right thing to do, but also the right thing for our business. To build on the policies and programs PepsiCo has already established in a number of areas including supplier ...
Tags: PepsiCo, Land Policy
Scottish government is set to launch a new food safety regulator, Food Standards Scotland (FSS), which will takeover the operations carried out by UK organization, the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The announcement comes as Food (Scotland) ...
Tags: food safety, Food, Agriculture, Drink
General Mills said today that it continues to expect adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) for the fiscal year ending May 25, 2014, to total between $2.87 and $2.90 per share. Adjusted diluted EPS excludes mark-to-market valuation ...
Tags: grain, food, Agriculture
China's refinery crude throughput over January and February dipped 1% year on year to 78.78 million mt, or an average of 9.79 million b/d, according to preliminary data from the country's National Bureau of Statistics released Thursday. ...
The US extended the delivery window on its sale Friday of 5 million barrels of Strategic Petroleum Reserve sour crude to May 10 from the original April 1-30, according to an amendment to the sale posted on the SPR website. A second ...
Tags: imported oil, SPR crude