Based on expectations of a healthy economic climate, Vardhman Textiles, one of India's largest integrated textile manufacturing companies, has raised its capital expenditure outlay for 2012-13 from 2011-12's Rs. 3.1 billion to Rs. 7.5 ...
Tags: Textiles, integrated textile, fibre, yarn, sewing thread and fabrics
Even in the midst of uncertain global economic climate,Indonesia's leading apparel producing firm PT Pan Brothers Tbk managed to post positive export growth during the first half of the current year. The publically-listed company's ...
Tags: PT Pan Brothers, export growth, Economic Slowdown, net sales
The Russian glass manufacturers remained untouched by the global economic slowdown and the current Euro crisis because of increasing internal demand for glass. The macro scenario of the industry looks bright. The growth of the Russian glass ...
Tags: industry trends, glass, Russia
STOCKHOLM -- Ikea will accelerate its store opening pace over the next few years, as it aims for a bigger share on the market in the face of the global economic slowdown, according to reports by The Wall Street Journal and Reuters news ...
Heavy equipment arm of Swedish giant grows Chinese market share as nation becomes part of company's DNA Born to a blue-collar family, Patrick Olney, president and chief executive officer of Volvo Construction Equipment, a subsidiary of ...
Tags: market views, heavy equipment
IT budgets will continue to prioritise security for the next four years at least,despite the economic slowdown,with$60bn to be spent on security technologies this year. According to Gartner research,this is 8.4%higher than in 2011 and it ...
Tags: Security Spending, IT budgets, web security appliances, Gartner CIO
Manufacturing growth in August remained as it had been in the previous two months—sluggish. The PMI,the index used by the Institute for Supply Management(ISM)to measure manufacturing activity,was 49.6 in August,which is 0.2 ...
Tags: ISM, manufacturing, production index, economy
Quick reaction to market fluctuations and flexible manufacturing capabilities have helped many Taiwanese manufacturers of machining centers to escape the impact of economic recession in major markets.Those markets include mainland ...
The employment of IT professionals will grow twice as fast as the average across sectors up to 2020 with 129,000 new recruits needed every year to meet demand for IT and telecoms workers. Research from e-Skills UK found that last year ...
Foreign holdings in U. S. Forests and farmland rose by 6.7% in the last 10 months of 2010, encompassing an area roughly the size of Indiana, according to a new report by the Department of Agriculture. The report, containing the most recent ...
Tags: market view, forest
NEMA's Electroindustry Business Confidence Index(EBCI)for current North American conditions slipped to 52.4 in June from 54.2 in May and has retreated more than 20 points since reaching a post-recession high in February.Despite its recent ...
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Fred Bass,managing director of Neonlite International,the brand owner of Megaman Megaman has highlighted its successful expansion into Latin America with the announcement that sales in the region during the first quarter of 2012 equalled ...
Tags: Sale, Latin America, Market
Mainly buoyed by growing exports, Taiwan’s hand tool industry achieved output of NT$61.3 billion in 2011 for an year-on-year (YoY) growth of 5.15%, according to the report by Dr. Arthur Hsu, an industrial analyst at the Industrial ...
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Portland cement production involves the chemical combination of calcium (generally from limestone), iron ore, silica, alumina, and other materials. It will benefit from rebounding growth in construction expenditures. Advances in Portland ...
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This week's research round-up includes a clutch of reports looking at innovation in savoury snacks, biscuits in Israel and dairy NPD. NPD/INNOVATION Dairy NPD and Successes Innovation in dairy is crucial. Being one of the largest, ...