UK's not-for-profit consumer group The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is calling for the renewal of a beer duty freeze as the government prepares to unveil its latest proposals for the economy. The group is calling for a beer duty freeze ...
Crows circle around the tract of cleared land that was once Hoya Corp.’s Pentax camera plant in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture. All that’s left is a sign directing employees to a dormitory and gymnasium, both pulled down years ago ...
Tags: Pentax camera, Toyota, Electronics
The number of businesses indicating they will hire staff in the months ahead has increased for a third consecutive quarter, supporting a view that underlying economic conditions are stable and that confidence is sound in spite of recent ...
Tags: Service, Employment
About 30 percent of total textile mills in India remained non-operational in 2000-10 leading to huge job losses, a recent study conducted by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) has found. The study ...
Tags: Textile Mills, Apparel
The Foreign Buyers Association of the Philippines (FOBAP) is seeking financial help from the Government to fund three projects aimed at revival of the domestic garment industry. According to FOBAP President Robert M. Young, through ...
Tags: Garment Sector, Apparel
INFORMATION technology start-ups have taken the lion's share of the government's innovation funding pool over the last three years. IT companies, mostly in start-up phase stage or in another early stage of operation, accounted for $77 ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Consumer Electronics, Electronics
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) has called on Australian governments to show more support for the nation's manufacturing sector. The union claims governments are now buying fewer locally-made cars at a time when they ...
Tags: manufacturing, manufacturing sector, Manufacturing Workers
NXP Semiconductors is planning to cut 700 to 900 jobs as part of a reorganization to reduce costs of support services, the company said on Monday. "The job cuts are part of a larger reorganization," said Guido Dierick, country manager of ...
Greenland’s treasure trove of rare earth metals, the largest deposit outside of China, cannot be mined because the elements are connected to restricted radioactive materials. Several reports, such as The Epoch Times’ latest ...
Tags: oil, gas, Greenland, rare earth metals, China
Economic Times reported that employers probably added jobs in December at about the same pace as the prior month, showing the US labour market held up as lawmakers struggled to resolve the fiscal impasse, economists said before a report ...
Tags: US, labour market, December, unemployment rate
Jobs lost despite booming PV shipments in the US 01 Oct 2012 Total PV module shipments in the US grew 43%in 2011 but employment fell by 10%,states a Department of Energy report.US PV module shipments versus price declines. A new report ...
Tags: jobs lost, EIA, photovoltaic cell, module shipments, EPIA
A dairy co-operative in Gwynedd is to spend 10M on a new cheesemaking facility after securing a 50M contract. The new cheesemaking facility will cost 10M South Caernarfon Creameries, which employs 110 workers, will begin supplying ...
Tags: cheesemaking facility, Adams Foods Limited, milk processing
The death knell has rung for pizza manufacturer Paramount Foods,which will close its site in North Wales with the loss of a further 278 jobs. Paramount Foods is to close its site in North Wales with the loss of 279 jobs Staff will work ...
Tags: pizza, Paramount Foods, job losses, Paramount's demise
CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYMENT WILL GO UP -- very slightly -- in 2012, contractors predicted in a survey released Monday by the Associated General Contractors of America. Modest improvements in hiring in 2011 and equally modest forecasts for 2012 ...
Tags: Market View, tool demand, Construction
Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, made it very clear after the Keystone XL pipeline was rejected by the U.S. that Canada would be seeking other markets for its natural resources. Indeed, he has wasted no time pursuing that goal, and ...
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