Monthly Archives: September 2011

Sears Holdings has announced that Raj Penkar will be joining the US retail group on September 15 as senior vice president and president, supply chain.

Increase in tendering could push the impact of purchasing scams on the public sector past the current £1.3 billion estimate.

The three-year framework agreement, which covers mechanical and electrical maintenance, is believed to be a first for the sector.

Little over a quarter of the 477 global companies quizzed by the CBI think the UK is an appealing market for infrastructure investment.

A Brussels source, who did not wish to be named, made the claim ahead of the EU publishing its latest set of proposals on Common Agricultural Policy in mid-October.

The awful events of September 11th 2001 were unprecedented in so many tragic respects. But one of them, perhaps, could not have been foreseen by the attackers who flew aircraft into New York’s World Trade Centre and Washington’s Pentagon.

A new market report warns that the global iron and steel industries should brace themselves for a price “upsurge”.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched two pilot projects designed to enhance the traceability of products responsible for foodborne illness outbreaks across industry supply chains.

Unilever has claimed that it has achieved its ambition of becoming a “zero to landfill” manufacturer in the UK.

The practice of cargo ships moving at slow speeds has caused inventory levels to rise and the practice of slow steaming is unlikely to end anytime soon.