Mergers and acquisitions in the UK food and drink industry hit a 10-year low at just 73 deals in the first half of this year, revealed figures from information services company Experian. Could AG Barr's acquisition of GSK's Lucozade and ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The Australian dollar rose after US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said the tapering of economic stimulus was not on a pre-set course. At 7am AEST the local unit was trading at 92.37 US cents, up from 92.08 cents at ...
The Chinese economy is capable of withstanding shocks, although its facing downside risks from both external and domestic uncertainties, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday. China's economy "is expected to grow at ...
Design Museum is collaborating with the UK’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, to deliver a major new exhibition about the sweeping changes in manufacturing that are transforming our world. New manufacturing ...
Tags: Design Museum, Textile Sector
Speaking this afternoon at a U.S. House Small Business Committee Hearing on worldwide American competitiveness, CEO of Alice Manufacturing, Smyth McKissick, urged lawmakers to endorse textile and apparel trading rules in the Trans-Pacific ...
Tags: Textile
Australia's government is to speed up the country's transition to a carbon emissions trading system by dropping its fixed-price carbon tax in 2014, a year earlier than planned, Australian treasurer Chris Bowen said over the weekend. From ...
China's apparent oil demand in June surged 11.7% year on year to 40.89 million mt, or an average 9.99 million b/d, according to Platts' estimates Monday, based on the latest preliminary government data. This is the highest growth rate ...
Tags: Chemicals, oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
“It’s been a very productive week”, said EU Chief Negotiator Ignacio Garcia-Bercero coming out of the talks. “We have been striving already for many months to prepare the ground for an ambitious trade and investment ...
Tags: TTIP Negotiations
Today, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim and the Fudan University in Shanghai publish the results of the first "China Economic Panel" (CEP). CEP is a panel of experts focused on China. It serves to investigate the ...
THE Australian dollar is lower today despite a modest bounce from China's latest economic growth figures. At 5pm, the local unit was trading at 90.87 US cents, down from 91.67 cents on Friday. The Australian dollar briefly dropped below ...
ENCOURAGING signs for the housing sector have driven a rise in banking shares, which pushed the market to a fifth straight day of gains. The release of China's latest economic growth figure of 7.5 per cent - in line with expectations - ...
Tags: housing sector, economy
RGA Reinsurance Company has been granted a preparatory license by the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) to operate a licensed life reinsurance branch in Shanghai, China, which is likely to be fully operational within one year. ...
Construction materials prices decreased 0.1 percent in June and are virtually unchanged for the quarter, according to the July 12 Producer Price Index report by the U.S. Labor Department. Year over year, construction materials prices are ...
Figures from China's statistics bureau released Monday show a decline in urban household disposable income growth and domestic consumption's share of China's economic growth, The Wall Street Journal reported. In the first half of 2013, ...
Tags: Domestic Consumption, Economy
In the first half of 2013, faced with the complicated and volatile economic environment at home and abroad, the Central Party Committee and the State Council have committed to the general tone of making progress while ensuring the ...