China's economic growth slowed to 7 percent in the first quarter of 2015, down from 7.3 percent in the fourth quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Wednesday. The latest figure was better than the forecasts by ...
Tags: Chinese economy, consumer prices
UK retail sales increased by 3.2% on a like-for-like basis from March 2014, when they had decreased 1.7% on the preceding year. On a total basis, sales were up 4.7%, against a 0.3% fall in March 2014. Adjusted for the BRC-Nielsen Shop Price ...
Tags: UK retail sales, retail sales
In the EU, packaging of consumer products has long been an environmental challenge for manufacturers and retailers. As governments try to meet national recycling and recovery targets, they are questioning manufacturers’ commitment to ...
For fiscal second-quarter 2015 (to end-February 2015), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $4.6m, continuing the rebound from the low of $2.3m in fiscal fourth-quarter 2014 and up 56% on ...
The LED industry is now fully embracing the fast-growing lighting market as (based on revenues) LED lighting has become the largest sector among LED applications, surpassing LCD backlighting in 2014, and is expected to be the major driver ...
Tags: LEDs MOCVD, LED Chip
China's textile and garment industry to explore the transition to 2015 performance expectations.Restructuring of the industry surging, mergers and acquisitions endless: This year cross / number of mergers and acquisitions in the industry ...
Tags: textile industry, garment industry
China's foreign trade remained anaemic in the first quarter of 2015, with exports registering a big slump in March following signs of improvement, official data showed on Monday. Last month, the foreign trade volume dropped by 13.5 ...
Tags: Foreign Trade, GAC, Transportation
In order to meet increasing export demand, Indonesian knitwear producer PT Pelinitra Gunawan has installed a third Montex stenter from A.Monforts Textilmachinen and supplied by its agent DKSH. In the year 2000, the company opened its ...
The middle school and high school teams must launch their rockets at least a mile in the air, deploy onboard science experiments, and land safely using a system of recovery parachutes. This may be a simple task for NASA engineers, but it is ...
Tags: NASA, STEM career, Manufacturing
An increasing number of UK consumers are suffering from stress, sleep deprivation and a lack of energy, and are on the look out for ‘feel-good’ products, which could provide opportunities for food and beverage manufacturers, ...
Canada’s recycling rate of post-consumer plastic packaging has increased by 9% in a single year, according to the Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA). The country reportedly collected over 311 million kilograms of ...
Tags: plastic packaging, used plastics, Packaging
Posted in Medical Device Business by Chris Newmarker on April 3, 2015 Robert Cascella was previously CEO of Hologic. He joins Philips as the Dutch multinational increasingly focuses on what it calls HealthTech. Robert Cascella, who ...
Tags: Philips, LED components, Medicine
Dutch multinational announces sale of its LED components and automotive lighting business as it turns toward new HealthTech focus. Chris Newmarker Royal Philips has set the wheels in motion when it comes to a split-up of the company ...
According to Nielsen's tracking data for more than 1,100 hypermarkets that covers a total of 22 key cities across China, in off-trade channels, the Baijiu market, after an inhibitory decline, got warm again in 2014, when the sales of Baijiu ...
The US liquid refreshment beverage market grew at a noteworthy rate in 2014 after having been essentially flat in 2013, according to newly released preliminary data from beverage market research organisation the Beverage Marketing ...