Jennifer Adams, award winning interior designer, TV personality, and founder of JENNIFER ADAMS WORLDWIDE announces the appointment of Michael Marchi to President, COO and Board Member, effective October 8, 2013. Marchi has previously held ...
Tags: Home Decor, Textile
Wolverine Worldwide reported record financial results for its third fiscal quarter ended September 7, 2013. The quarter included a full 12 weeks contribution from the Company's October 2012 acquisition of the Sperry Top-Sider, Saucony, ...
During the third quarter of 2013, end-market demand from the global solar PV industry reached a new record of 9GW. This record demand is up 6% on quarter and almost 20% on year, according to Solarbuzz. Both mid-year quarters, ...
The area of plantation for cotton in Australia, in the 2013-14 harvest season, is forecast to fall by 2 percent to around 434,000 hectares, according to the Australian Crop Report—September 2013 edition, released by the Australian ...
Bauer Performance Sports Ltd. announced its interim financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2014 ended August 31, 2013. Bauer's overall revenues increased by 4% in the first quarter of fiscal 2014. This increase was fueled ...
Tags: lifestyle apparel, clothes
All-stock transaction creating a new company as a merger of equals with combined market capitalization of approximately US$29 billion (¥2.8 trillion) Accelerates development of breakthrough products to address future technology ...
Tags: Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron
The Textile Industry Division, Government of Pakistan, has divided 1,250 acres of industrial land at the Pakistan Textile City into 277 plots of varying sizes ranging from 0.5 acres to 5 acres, APP reported. Of the 277 plots, 14 are to ...
Tags: Textile City, Textile Industry
Walmart announced two new centers dedicated to filling online orders, including one in Texas and one in Pennsylvania that will be its largest ever. These two new online fulfillment centers are just part of a next-generation fulfillment ...
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The garment industry of India is expected to achieve the target of US$ 17 billion in exports for the current fiscal year as the outbound shipments of apparel have already touched US$ 5 billion during the first four months of 2013-14, ...
Tags: Apparel Exports, garment industry
NRF expects sales in the months of November and December to marginally increase 3.9 percent to $602.1 billion, over 2012’s actual 3.5 percent holiday season sales growth. The forecast is higher than the 10-year average holiday sales ...
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The global apparent steel demand growth expectation for 2013 of worldsteel has been revised upwards today, October 7, to 3.1 percent to 1.475 billion metric tons, up from 2.9 percent in the association's short range outlook published back ...
Tags: Steel Demand, Steel Industry
After six consecutive quarters of decline, GDP in the Eurozone increased by 0.3% in Q2 2013. Economic activity is projected to expand further over the forecast horizon (+0.1% in Q3, +0.3% in Q4 2013 and +0.4% in Q1 2014) mainly on the back ...
With home prices and household formations rising and household balance sheets healing, the ongoing housing recovery is expected to gain momentum next year even as several challenges remain, according to economists who participated in the ...
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MHI receives order from JAMSTEC for wide-area seabed research vessel to be equipped with numerous state-of-the-art research capabilities Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order for construction of a wide-area seabed ...
Tags: MHI, Transportation, vessels
There are no ifs, ands or buts about it - the High Point Market is a key component in the economic machinery of North Carolina. In a release issued today by the High Point Market Authority, Duke University's Center on Globalization, ...
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