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Precious metals lead global commodity bull run
Financial experts predict that, despite global market uncertainly, demand for key commodities will continue to hold up strongly.
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Businesses urged to look again at currency costs
Organisations that import and export goods are being urged to look more closely at how fluctuations in currency markets affect business costs.
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US faces ‘nearly stagnant’ import trade for 2011
Estimates for US containerised import growth for 2011 and 2012 have been revised downward by market watchers who warn that weaker economic data reported by the US government that will lead to a “nearly stagnant import trade” for the rest of this year.
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Sears appoints new supply chain chief
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.
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Spotlight: Ten years on – lessons from a tragedy
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.
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Price ‘upsurge’ predicted for iron and steel
A new market report warns that the global iron and steel industries should brace themselves for a price “upsurge”.
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US to improve traceability of food supply chains
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.
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Unilever bins landfill waste from UK manufacturing plants
Unilever has claimed that it has achieved its ambition of becoming a “zero to landfill” manufacturer in the UK.
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Cost savings remain top priority for CPOs
Finding and delivering savings remains the top business pressure and priority for CPOs for 2011-2014, new research has revealed.
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Supermarket giant to address indirect
The UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain, Morrisons, has turned its attention to its indirect spend in an effort to consolidate supply contracts, cut costs and improve performance.
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