United States Steel Corporation announced Friday that it is currently performing its annual goodwill impairment analysis and that it estimates a total goodwill impairment of approximately $1.8 billion for its North American flat-rolled and ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
The bike industry likely will never tally all the delays and extra costs that resulted from the federal government shutdown that ended Thursday. Many shops lost sales as local federal workers were out of work, and many businesses dependent ...
Tags: bike, Transportation
Entitled ‘Reshoring and Economic Recovery’, the October 17-18 SPESA Executive Conference will feature presentations and discussions from industry leaders, association and government officials on the most important issues, trends ...
Tags: Sewn Products, Textile
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 ...
Tags: Holiday Season, Apparel
For the fifth consecutive year, ASCER has organized a group participation of Tile of Spain - the umbrella brand for the international promotion of Spanish ceramic tiles- in Ace Tech 2013. This international fair will be held October 17-20 ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Tile
In September 2013 economic expectations for Central and Eastern Europe including Turkey (CEE) remained almost unchanged. The ZEW-Erste Group Bank Economic Sentiment Indicator for the CEE region has increased by 2.4 points and now stands at ...
Tags: economy
Combined with a more favourable sterling to euro exchange rate, this “good growth” is projected to lead higher revenue for the period to 30 September, RPC said in its pre-close trading update. The rigid plastics packaging firm ...
Tags: Coffee Capsules, RPC
The third-quarter Transport Capital Partners survey reveals more U.S. carriers are expecting to see volumes and rates grow over the coming months. In this quarter's survey, more carriers are expressing optimism for increases in volumes ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
China's manufacturing activities rose to a six-month high in September, according to a preliminary survey from HSBC. The HSBC Flash Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for September rose to 51.2, the highest level since April ...
Tags: manufacturing activities
China's appetite for coal, once seemingly unlimited, is starting to wane, and the effects are rippling far from the Middle Kingdom. With the world's second-largest economy, China in recent years has been driving demand for all sorts of ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
CGS, a leading global provider of technology solutions, announced that two of its Fashion and Apparel industry thought leaders, Jim Hoerig and Chad Bralley, will participate as featured speakers in the SEAMS and SPESA upcoming Fall ...
Tags: Textile
Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC), India's apex body for apparel export promotion, as part of its on-going export promotion initiatives, has organized a Buyer Seller Meet (BSM) for apparel and related accessories at New York, USA for ...
Chinese exporters will continue to face increasing trade frictions in the second half of 2013 and in 2014 amid escalating trade protectionism moves and an uncertain economic recovery, said a report released on Monday by ...
Tags: trade frictions, economic recovery
The Euro area's recession came to an end. In the second quarter of 2013 GDP increased by 1.1 percent. For the next months we expect a gradual improvement of economic conditions. Our forecast is based on a continued upturn of business and ...
Tags: economy
The exports of synthetic or man-made fibres from India are likely to grow to US$ 6 billion in financial year 2013-14, compared to exports of US$ 5.373 billion made in 2012-13, according to The Synthetic & Rayon Textiles Export Promotion ...
Tags: Synthetic Fibre, Textile