Harrison Spinks, one of Great Britain’s most established and innovative bed makers, has won the Family Business of the Year award at the prestigious UK Private Business Awards. The UK Private Business Awards, sponsored by PwC, ...
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says that several of its semiconductor solutions (including its SkyHi multimode modules and switches) are powering LG Electronics Inc' ...
Tags: Skyworks, OCU, LG Electronics
One of Great Britain’s most established and innovative bed makers, Harrison Spinks, has appointed a finance and business expert as head of business change, in order to drive the company forward and achieve its vision to double its ...
Robots are no longer the unyielding, one-task giants doing humans' dull and dangerous work. The new breed can perform more than one task and work alongside humans without being a physical threat. As a result, manufacturers across industries ...
Tags: Next-Gen Robots, Robots
Myanmar authorities announced Wednesday that a consortium of six foreign group companies, led by China's CITIC, has won the bid for implementing two projects of the country's newly planned special economic zone (SEZ) in Kyaukphyu, western ...
Tags: Six-Company, Implementing SEZ
As a victim of cybercrime in recent years, China chooses not to suffer in silence, but actively fight cybercrime and help govern the cyber community together with the rest of the world. As host of the Second World Internet Conference ...
Tags: Cyberspace, cybercrime, e-business
Italian fashion retailer Benetton said it has contributed an additional $1.1 million to the Rana Plaza Trust Fund, doubling the sum recommended in an independent assessment of its contribution by PwC. “This payment of $1.1 ...
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PwC is planning to aid governments and food companies to address the major issues of food safety, security and quality by declaring open its global food supply and integrity services business—established, developed and run from New ...
Tags: integrity services, political issue, Food
Chief executive officers have less confidence in growth prospects for their businesses amid China's economic restructuring, even as most of them continued to remain bullish on the size and strength of the Chinese economy, a survey said on ...
To succeed, electronics manufacturers need to stay ahead of quickly accelerating technology trends. To find out how this acceleration in high-tech manufacturing is affecting TE Connectivity’s supply chain planning, we interviewed Jim ...
Tags: network, advanced product, Electrical
As online shopping continues to grow at the expense of store visits, the premium in the future will be on creating unique, brand-defining experiences that keep customers coming back— whatever the channel, says global consultancy firm ...
Tags: Retail Stores, Apparel
China is likely to see 60 percent more initial public offerings in 2015 as the securities regulator improves capital market operations, said international auditor PwC on Monday. Lin Yizhong, managing partner of PwC ...
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Online apparel sales continue to capture a greater share of India retail ecommerce sales, said an ASSOCHAM-PwC study. The apparel category, along with computers and consumer electronics, helped fuel the overall market growth, through ...
Tags: ecommerce sales, retail ecommerce, Apparel
The retail industry in India is one of the fastest-growing in the world and could see a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10 per cent over 2012-2020, growing from US$ 500 million to $1 trillion in that time frame, says a recent report ...
For the first time since 2011, automotive supplier merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is expected to increase. PwC estimates about 211 deals for the year, a 13 percent increase over 2013, according to PwC's seventh annual Consolidation ...