Buoyed by sustained demand for apartments and condominiums, coupled with state and local governments moving ahead with delayed public projects, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) has been positive for seven consecutive months. As a ...
Holiday sales as compared to overall annual retail sales have been trending downward for about a decade. Holiday sales in 2013, at $663.5 billion, were 18.7 percent of overall retail sales, well below the peak of 19.6 percent seen in 2004. ...
Tags: Gifts, Shoppers, Sporting Goods
Red Robin Gourmet will unveil The Cure Burger, whihc will be available by request only at participating restaurants nationwide beginning 1 January. Millions of drinking-age Americans believe food is the key to hangover relief, with almost ...
Tags: eggs, breakfast meats, burgers
The state of the trade continues to be reported as positive, but less so than in the previous two quarters. Confidence has been resolutely positive since the start of 2013, and respondents had previously improved their reports further ...
Tags: actual balance, Office Supplies
A survey by The Economist reveals that Asian women are increasingly empowered financially and they are the one’s driving the explosive growth of e-commerce in the region. The magazine did a detailed survey of 5,500 women across ...
Tags: Ecommerce Trade, Female consumers, Apparel
According to World Instant Noodle Association's survey on 15 countroes' instant noodles intake, one man in Korea ate 74.1 packs of noodles in 2013, ranking first. Vietnam and Indonesia comes after Korea with 60.3 packs and 57.3 packs. ...
Tags: Instant Noodles, Food
Around 48% of all the pizzas surveyed across the UK were found to exceed the recommended limit for an entire day (6g/day), according to a report by the Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) and World Action on Salt and Health (WASH). ...
Tags: Half of Pizzas, Food
Samsung has announced plans to shut down its ChatOn messenger app for good. The South Korean firm previously denied rumours that ChatOn was soon to be binned - speculation that we now know to be true. “Under changes in the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Samsung
Confectionery manufacturers should promote chocolate products as an indulgent treat with natural ingredients and sustainable production in order to tap into the chocolate market, according to market research organisation Canadean. ...
Tags: chocolate products, Food
Cotton production in China has declined by 2.2 per cent year-on-year to 6.161 million tons in 2014, according to a Government survey of the country’s 31 autonomous regions and municipalities on cotton acreage, yield per unit area and ...
Tags: Cotton Production, Cotton
The debate around raw milk continues after dairy company Mountain View Farm recalled its Organic Bath Milk product. The recall came after the product was implicated in the death of a three-year-old child, who had consumed it. ACCC to ...
Tags: milk recall, Food Science, Agriculture
UK smoking rate has been reduced to its lowest ever level since the recording commenced in the 1940s. Official figures are suggesting that the smoking prevalence among older than 18 years old users decreased from 19.8% back in 2012 to 18.7% ...
Tags: Smoking Rate, Consumer Electronics
The American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) today announced a three-year communications effort to educate consumers. The goal is to reach beyond the seed industry to educate the general public about the role of seed and seed improvement in ...
Tags: Seed Improvement, Agriculture
The U.S. department of commerce announced that they would take anti-dumping countervailing investigation on Chinese melamine imports on Nov.3, this investigation may lead the United States imposing punitive tariffs on these products that ...
Tags: Melamine, punitive tariffs
Amazon.com has introduced a ‘Make an Offer’ feature that allows customers to negotiate even lower prices on thousands of items. Expanding on Amazon’s traditional fixed price model, the new pricing feature allows customers ...