The global market for industrial & institutional cleaning products is forecast to exceed $36.7 billion by the year 2015, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
UK oil giant BP has revived the sale of its Alaskan assets after failing to sell them to US oil and gas company Apache in July, according to a report in the Financial Times.
As Americans celebrate Labor Day, the laborers being celebrated are ever fewer in number, with the US economy having lost over 8 million jobs since the recession took hold.
The government of Liberia has embarked upon a $1.6 billion palm oil project with Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), the subsidiary of Singapore palm oil producer Golden VerOleum.
Canadian mining giant Goldcorp has agreed to buy Andean Resources Limited for C$3.6 billion, thereby adding the Cerro Negro gold deposit in Argentina to its assets.
Technip has been awarded by StatoilHydro an EPCI contract for the Hywind Project substructure wind turbine which will be located offshore Karmøy, Norway, at 200-300 meter water depth. It will be the world's first full scale offshore floating wind turbine.
The race is on to find alternative energy sources that are economical and green. WaterFurnace International vice president Bob Brown explains how one very natural source is fueling the company’s growth.
Toyota is investing considerable resources in developing its South African supply chain. VP of Purchasing and Engineering Nigel Ward explains to Gay Sutton the value of collaborative supplier relations and Toyota’s philosophy of respect for people and mutual trust.
Strategic clarity is the key to unlocking the treasures of South Africa’s shallow gold resources for the country’s most dynamic recent market entrant, as Jayne Flannery discovers.
As governments around the world invest in power infrastructure, competition has become rife within this specialist construction sector. Andrew Pelis reports.
Andy Haslam, managing director of iron ore producer Territory Resources, is delighted to be mirroring the growth of Asia’s resurgent economies. Jayne Flannery reports.
What businesses actually want from their sales and operational planning, says Andrew Kinder of Infor, is the ability to explore ‘what if’ scenarios across the business quickly and accurately.
The World Cup didn’t teach us anything we didn’t already know about the England team; but it will provide valuable lessons for CIOs and network managers, says Adrian Thirkill, global customer operations director, Easynet Global Services.
It is tempting to think of supply chain risk in terms of a catastrophic and unpredictable event; but potential threats are often closer and more preventable than many people think, as Andrew Kinder explains.
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