Online shopping trends in India are expected to continue to ride the waves of popularity, made easier and more convenient by the deep penetration of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Online shopping has increased rapidly in ...
Tags: Online Shopping, CBRE's survey
The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) announced that André Borschberg, one of the pilots and co-developer of the Solar Impulse solar-powered aircraft, will deliver the keynote address during the Opening Session of the 2015 ...
Despite an Australian economy growing at a moderate 2.3 per cent according to March quarter figures released by the ABS this month, the latest data on trade payments reveals that businesses are paying their invoices at the fastest rate on ...
Tags: Australian economy, payment times
The infrared (IR) LED market for surveillance applications will grow from $94m in 2014 to $120m in 2015, according to '2Q15 Gold Member Report - 2015 Global LED Supply and Demand Market' from LEDinside (a division of TrendForce). ...
A newly published study from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows that improving the uniformity of lighting in parking lots can increase the sense of safety and security, as well as provide up to an ...
Tags: Uniform Lighting, HID lighting, LED
China will come out with a five-year plan (2016-20) for the development of its strategic emerging industries and to further boost its innovation efforts, the nation's top economic planner said on Friday. The National Development and ...
Tags: Emerging Industries, Economy
Women are playing a part as important as their male peers in driving the growth of e-commerce in China, a report said on Thursday. As of last year, women were running more than half of the shops on Taobao and Tmall, the two largest online ...
Tags: Online Economy, e-commerce
Chinese stocks and economic growth have long had little to do with each other. Between 2010 and early 2014, when China boasted the world's fastest-growing economy, its stockmarket was consistently among the world's worst performers. Since ...
Tags: Stockmarket, Economy
Consumers in India prefer cleanliness as the most important factor for visiting shopping centers, along with personal safety and security. Value retail is also a favored category for the price conscious Indian consumer. Convenience – ...
Tags: Indian retail market, Economy
Despite significant regional challenges, international retailers are taking the long-term view on investments in developing markets and are persisting in finding solutions, according to global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney. The ...
Tags: Global Retail, Retail
China's service sector activity expanded in May, but at a slower pace, an official monthly survey showed on Monday. The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the non-manufacturing sector fell to 53.2 in May, down from 53.4 for April, ...
Tags: Non-Manufacturing, PMI, Economy
Ma Yingying says women are increasingly making their mark in Chinese business. The 33-year-old chief executive officer and founder of Lux Shine Media Company, which stages modernized performances of Peking Opera, says there is now a ...
Tags: opinion, Chinese business, leadership
Researchers from Switzerland have found that microscopic hay particles play a key role in the formation of holes in cheeses like Emmentaler and Appenzeller. Agroscope Institute for Food Sciences research team has found that tiny hay ...
Tags: Swiss Cheese, Cheese
More than 73% of chickens tested positive for the presence of food poisoning bug campylobacter in the UK, according to the Food Standards Agency. As part of the year-long study, over 4,000 samples of fresh whole chilled chickens from ...
It’s been summer in major China, but the slack sales for China truck markets continues. Sales of light trucks decreased by 20% in the first quarter over last year, and sales of heavy trucks decreased by 30% over last year, and the ...
Tags: Light Trucks, Trailer Tractors