Government's push of e-commerce in rural areas will stimulate online fresh food sales A government-backed drive toward e-commerce can help open up the agricultural sector and generate a rapid increase in incomes for farmers. At a ...
Tags: E-Commerce, Farming, Agricultural
China's new 10-year new-energy vehicle development plan has more objective, practical goals than the one released in 2012, after NEV sales in the first quarter accounted for only 5 percent of this year's original target. The Ministry of ...
More than 73% of chickens tested positive for the presence of food poisoning bug campylobacter in the UK, according to the Food Standards Agency. As part of the year-long study, over 4,000 samples of fresh whole chilled chickens from ...
SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association released a report today titled, “Plastics Market Watch: Plastics in the Fast Lane,” that anticipates an increased use of plastics in automobiles as economic and demographic forces ...
Suntory Beverage & Food (SBF) has signed a basic agreement to buy beverage business of Japan Tobacco (JT) for $1.2bn. According to SBF, the deal also includes acquisition of canned coffee brand Roots and peach-flavored drink brand Momono ...
Tags: Suntory, Japan Tobacco
Global packaging and paper group Mondi has agreed to acquire two extrusion coating facilities from Walki Group for EUR60m. The transaction includes Walki's industrial packaging facilities in Pietarsaari, Finland and Wroclaw, Poland. ...
Tags: paper packaging, Packaging
Overall revenue growth of the global wide format and speciality print community from 2007 to 2015 was about 9 per cent CAGR for the overall business and 7 per cent for digital wide format. This is one among the key findings of the ...
Tags: Format Printer, speciality print
One of the best things you can do to ensure a good night’s sleep is to pick a pillow that suits you. Almost a third of your life is spent sleeping - so it’s a good idea to buy pillows that are right for you and your lifestyle. ...
Tags: Pillows, soft Pillows
Sheets are a textile - designed, fabricated and finished much like any garmen. Picking out bed sheets based solely on color or print is not a good idea. But the first step when deciding to buy bed sheets are picking the best matching color. ...
Tags: Buying Bedding, Thread count, fabric
Australia's 14 million shoppers have shifted their shopping habits over the last decade according to the work of Roy Morgan Research. The key determinants in grocery shopping habits include food safety, location and good value. ...
Tags: shopping habits, food safety, good value
Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed a bill that will allow state breweries to sell beer in the 64-ounce refillable size called “growler” from 1 July The new law would see the end of long standing "growler" war over beer ...
Tags: 64-Ounce Growlers, craft brewers
Glass container manufacturer Owens-Illinois (O-I) is buying Mexican company Vitro's food and beverage glass container business for around $2.15bn, to gain a competitive position in the Mexican glass packaging market. O-I will acquire ...
Tags: Owens-Illinois, Glass Container, Packaging
We recently conducted an Event Tech Survey and exhibitors had a lot of advice and questions on the topic of renting technology vs. buying technology. Some found it more cost effective to own the technology they used in their booth while ...
In a recent survey of inline exhibitors, we discovered that, while Skyline has the largest market share among portable display buyers, there is an interesting split within the whole: New exhibitors are more likely to buy their displays over ...
U.S. jewelry and watch sales across all channels fell 1.7 percent year on year to $5.386 billion in March, as estimated from preliminary government figures. According to Rapaport News calculations, jewelry sales dropped 1.5 percent to ...
Tags: jewelry, watch sales