Lindt & Spruengli has booked a 14% rise in first-half net profit in the face of weak consumer sentiment in the chocolate-maker's largest markets, the US and Europe. The Swiss chocolatier said today (21 August) net profit rose to CHF36.6m ...
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Said Furniture Trade, had to put music from, and bring music from, you have to talk about the Louvre. Louvre International Furniture Exhibition Center, construction area of more than 20 million square meters, is the world's largest single ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard is readying three new software capabilities that are designed to help enterprises pool their computing and storage resources across a network. The advances should make it easier for IT departments to ...
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The Industrial Designers Society of America(IDSA)has honoured Fluke Corporation with a Gold Award in its International Design Excellence Awards(IDEA®)program,the premier international competition honouring design excellence in ...
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Calavo Growers has completed the expansion of its fresh avocado packing operations at its facility in Uruapan,Michoacán,Mexico,positioning the company to address the strong consumer demand in that produce category. Calavo Growers ...
In the last three years, Fall River-based Philips Lightolier has increased its LED products to 20 percent of the company's sales, making it a leader in renewable lighting technology. Zia Eftekhar, chairman of Philips Lighting North ...
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Fall River-based Philips Lightolier has increased its LED products to 20%of the company's sales,making it a leader in renewable lighting technology within 3 years. The chairman of Philips Lighting North America,Zia Eftekhar,said it's the ...
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SmartTruckRoute app has been updated to include text to speech voice instructions and a navigation panel for turn by turn navigation promoting the app to be able to used as a primary means of navigation for truck drivers. BOSTON, MA, ...
Tags: navigation panel, GPS, Android application, Global Positioning Systems
Elekta has entered into a collaboration agreement to integrate Brainlab's ExacTrac patient positioning system into its radiation therapy machines. Field-proven ExacTrac system, which is designed for supporting frameless stereotactic ...
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IDG News Service - , which Microsoft is positioning as a reinvention of its Hotmail and of competing consumer webmail services, appears at first glance more evolutionary than groundbreaking, according to several industry analysts. "This ...
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Weyerhaeuser Co., one of the industry’s largest supplier of wood products, reported net sales from continuing operations of $1.8 billion for its second fiscal quarter, a 12.5% increase over net sales from continuing operations of $1.6 ...
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Aquafresh Ultimate,the new''Whole Tooth Protection''flagship brand for GlaxoSmithKline(GSK),is the result of a close collaboration between GSK in-house PacXperience&Consumer Healthcare Futures and strategic brand innovation&design ...
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Hochiki Europe,a leading manufacturer and supplier of fire detection and emergency lighting systems,has announced the publication of a free A6 guide to BS5266,the code of practice for emergency lighting. UK fire safety legislation states ...
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The theatre at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts has been upgraded with shimmering gold balcony facades that are backlit by linear LED fixtures. Details of the lighting design are provided in a new case study. Muriel Kauffman ...
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Toshiba to start mass production of GaN-on-Si white LEDs in October Tokyo-based semiconductor manufacturer Toshiba Corp says that in October it will start mass production of white LEDs on a new production line that it will construct in ...
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