Import volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to increase 1.1 percent in June over the same month last year, reflecting modest growth expectations as retailers head toward the back-to-school and holiday ...
Tags: Merchandise Imports, Textile
For the two of you unfamiliar with the term, "showrooming" is the practice of going to a brick-and-mortar retailer to get an eyes-on experience with a product before ultimately buying it online. A new study confirms what many of us had ...
Tags: Best Buy, Walmart, Showrooming
THE days of the Australian dollar soaring above the 100 US cent mark are over. So whether you're despairing that you can no longer afford that holiday in New York or rejoicing that your business is now more competitive, one thing is ...
Tags: Service
LED chipmaker Epistar has reported May revenues of NT$2.223 billion (US$74 million), showing an on-month increase of 15.8% and an on-year increase of 19.42%. The figure was also a record high. Epistar stated demand for AlGaInP LEDs has ...
Tags: LED chipmaker, Epistar
600 sheets of glass measuring 10 mm in thickness to be processed layer by layer to create 6-metre-high work of art In 1993, as part of the celebrations surrounding Venlo´s 650th jubilee, the Jacques & Ellen Scheuten Foundation ...
Tags: Construction, glass
One year after its US toy market launch, the Lexibook Junior Tablet has won an important award from the magazine The Toy Insider - the annual holiday consumer toy guide. In May 2013, the Lexibook Junior Tablet received "The Toy Insider's ...
Tags: Lexibook, Junior Tablet, Toy Insider
AmericasMart Atlanta is where top designers, decorators, retailers and tastemakers from across the nation and the world converge to find the inspirational styles that shape global home décor trends. Featuring an ever-growing ...
Tags: AmericasMart, Home Collection
MICROS Systems, Inc. a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, is pleased to announce its technology partnership with footwear and accessories retailer Steve Madden. The solutions that ...
MooresCloud, a start-up company headquartered in Australia, launched its new product, Holiday by MooresCloud at CeBIT Australia 2013. Holiday by MooresCloud is the world's first connected, intelligent, beautiful and easy-to-use festive ...
Tags: Interactive and Intelligent Christmas Lighting, Lights&Lighting
Americans throw away up to 40 percent of their food says the Environmental Protection Agency. This not only wastes money and energy, but the food decaying in landfills also produces methane, a potent greenhouse gas. To reverse this trend, ...
At Consumer Reports we have long cautioned about the rising and falling prices of mattresses. Little did we know that we'd experience those markups and discounts in our own mattress tests. After checking our mattress Ratings recently, a ...
Demand for LED backlighting rebounded in the first half of 2013, but firms expect demand to slow down after mid-June because China's energy-saving appliance procurement subsidy program is close to an end. Despite the possible demand drop ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Lights, Lighting
At the start of the Memorial Day weekend, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy signed a bill to allow the sale of malt-based beverages in convenient pouch packaging. Public Act 13-27, H.B. 6540, sponsored by Senate Environment Committee ...
Tags: pouch packaging, Packaging, Connecticut
The company that brought us the PadFone, an all-in-one smartphone, tablet and laptop device, is thinking a bit bigger. Taiwan's Asustek Computer has now combined a tablet, smartphone and desktop PC into a single product that it calls the ...
Tags: Asus, Transformer Book Trio
HBA Global, the leading product development source for the beauty and personal care industry, has announced the finalists of its Annual International Package Design Awards (IPDA). The IPDA Finalists will be displayed during the HBA Global ...
Tags: Beauty Packaging, Packaging