United Parcel Service Inc (UPS.N) and FedEx Corp (FDX.N) are rolling out new pricing systems to curb online retailers' large package sizes, but industry experts warn many small firms are unprepared and could pay up to 50 percent more for ...
Holiday sales as compared to overall annual retail sales have been trending downward for about a decade. Holiday sales in 2013, at $663.5 billion, were 18.7 percent of overall retail sales, well below the peak of 19.6 percent seen in 2004. ...
Tags: Gifts, Shoppers, Sporting Goods
Recently, SINOTRUK Hong Kong Company South Asia and Americas Division began shipping the first batch of bulk to Ecuador, and the first shipment was prepared at the port of Qingdao. The 761 vehicles project is the first time that ...
Cabela's, Nike and Under Armour was among 10 online retailers that earned spots on the Kurt Salmon Santa’s Good List for Holiday Shipping for speedily delivering multi-unit Cyber Monday orders in an average of 2.6 days, more than ...
Tags: Outdoor Brands
Amazon.com, Inc. launched Prime Now in select areas of Manhattan in New York City Thursday. The long anticipated service offers one-hour delivery on tens of thousands of daily essentials to Amazon Prime members through a mobile app. Prime ...
As is known to all, China is a world full of factories that manufacturing products and selling all over the world. And we always encounter products those labeled “Made in China”. Nowadays, the China import scale is larger and ...
US-based Menasha Packaging has acquired a flexographic press to meet the growth in demand for its products. The company provides graphic consumer packaging, merchandising solutions, corrugated packaging, food packaging, shipping ...
Tags: merchandising solutions, corrugated packaging, food packaging
SoftWear Automation, a developer of robotic sewing technologies for the apparel industry said it completed a $3 million Series A round of financing from CTW Venture Partners. Alongside, KP Reddy, partner at CTW Venture has also been ...
Tags: Sewing Technologies, Softwear Bags, Apparel
Mobile chargers are ten-a-penny on crowdfunding sites, but lately we've seen a couple that do things a little differently. The SmartWallet was also a wallet, and now the iPac-Man doubles as a Bluetooth games controller. On the charger ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, iPac
Melbourne-based warehouse business Supply Warehouse has launched an online grocery shopping service in Australia, making its cheap supermarket items available to shoppers across the country. Supply Warehouse Online offers monthly $1 and ...
China-based vendor TCL Communication Technology Holdings has managed to ramp up its smartphone shipments to over five million units a month since October and will reach its goal of shipping 40 million smartphones in 2014, according to the ...
Tags: TCL, Smartphone
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
Specialty jewelry store sales in the U.S. fell 3.9 percent year on year to $2.37 billion in October. The sharp drop was not as obvious in the preliminary jewelry and watch sales total during the month, which Rapaport News reported on ...
Tags: Specialty jewelry, jewelry, watch
Ford has announced that it will be shipping its 2015 Ford Mustang to dealers across the US this week. Since it was launched during winters, the company has introduced heated seats in the front for the driver and front passenger, which ...
Honeywell has launched its hands-free wrist-mounted mobile device for managing the efficiency, productivity and accuracy of warehouse operations like picking, packing and shipping. "Distribution centre operators in Asia Pacific are ...
Tags: mobile device, picking, shipping, Packaging