In the fourth quarter of 2012, the business investment rate was 19.7% in the euro area, compared with 20.0% in the third quarter of 2012. This fall was the result of investment decreasing (-1.7%) at a higher pace than gross value added ...
Tags: business investment, Euro Area
It will not take much time to define those equipments which are used for material handling, but analysis and implementation of suitable equipments will surely take some time. Broadly, various instruments and huge machines which are used for ...
1. Explanatory Notes China non-manufacturing purchasing manager index system constituted by 10 sub-indices, they are business activity index, new orders index, new export orders index in hand orders index, stock index, intermediate input ...
Industrial Profits Increased from January to March National Bureau of Statistics of China 2013-04-27 16:23:19 From January to March, the industrial profits of enterprises above designated size achieved 1,174.0 billion yuan, an increase of ...
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Ennis, Inc. reported financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended February 28, 2013. Highlights for the quarter include: Consolidated sales increased 1.7% - Print sales increased $7.4 million - Apparel sales declined $5.2 ...
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In March, non-manufacturing purchasing manager index was 55.6 percent, an increase of 1.1 percentage points over the previous month. In view of different industries, non-manufacturing purchasing manager index of construction industry ...
Tags: Non-Manufacturing, PMI
Global packaging company Sonoco has been awarded the primary packaging, retail display assembly and fulfillment of Energizer brands’ segment of battery products. In a bid to streamline operations, the US-based consumer goods company ...
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Bebe stores, inc. reported retail sales of $104.0 million for the third fiscal quarter ended April 6, 2013, a decrease of 3.7% compared to $108.0 million for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2012. Comparable store sales for the fiscal ...
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All goods need to be stored and stacked properly for its easy accessibility and for an organized way of handling it thus making it convenient. Racking is a basic necessity for almost all the manufacturing units. Many industries use pallet ...
Czech-based Evraz Vitkovice Steel, a subsidiary of Russian vertically-integrated steelmaking and mining company Evraz, has halted steel production at its Ostrava plant due to weak demand, according to media reports. Evraz Vitkovice ...
Tags: Evraz Vitkovice Steel, Halts Steel, Mineral
Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) failure in spotting the producers of finished textile goods and collect five percent withholding tax on exports made by them has caused members of the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) to ...
Tags: textile goods, textile, Apparel
QuestaWeb, Inc., a premier provider of Web-based, integrated Global Trade Management (GTM) solutions, announced today that it has entered into an alliance partnership with Chihuahua, Mexico-based AduanaSoft, Inc., a leading provider of IT ...
Tags: Textile.Textile Industry
In an earlier column, we discussed a framework for risk identification. With the understanding that risk lies at the intersection of vulnerability (specific points of weakness in the supply chain) and exposure (financial or production ...
In March, China's manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was 50.9 percent, up by 0.8 percentage point month-on-month, and stayed above the threshold for six consecutive months. In view of the sizes of enterprises, the PMI of ...
Jack Mans, Plant Operatiions Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/1/2013 10:48:05 AM Aerofil Technology Inc. (ATI) began its operations in Sullivan, MO, in the fall of 1988 with two small aerosol lines and less than 50,000 sq ft of space. Since ...