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Digital Coupon Users Spend 42% More Annually Than Average Shoppers, Survey Says

Digital coupon users spend 42 percent more per year at supermarkets than the average shopper - a differential of $1,029, according to a GfK report, based on more than 120 campaigns run by Coupons.com in 2012. This reflects a 7-percent increase compared to 2011.

Are Automation, Lean Initiatives Leading to Rise in 'Jobless' Resurgence in U.S. Manufacturing?

In the past year, there have been numerous articles debating whether "reshoring" is a myth or really happening. For example, the cover article of the April 22, 2013 issue of Time magazine was "Made in USA - Manufacturing is Back - But Where are the Jobs?"

Chemical Manufacturers Publish Pledge of Product Safety

BASF, Dow, DuPont, Honeywell and the rest of the American Chemistry Council's member companies have pledged to implement 11 industry best practices to evaluate and improve their product safety performance.

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More Retailers Come Clean on Where Their Products Come From

Some retailers are doing what was once unthinkable, handing over information about exactly how, and where, their products were made.

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Resilinc Teams With ICOR to Create Supply-Chain Resiliency Course

Resilinc Corp. has joined with the International Consortium for Organization Resilience (ICOR) to create a management course on supply-chain resiliency.

Panjiva Offers Chinese Trade Data on Searchable Platform

Panjiva, creator of a business-to-business platform for global trade, is now offering access to Chinese trade data.

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Standard Register Unveils New Marketing Supply Chain Tool

Standard Register, a vendor of document-management systems and services for enhancing business reputation, has launched a new service to help manage the marketing supply chain.

Retailers Shouldn't Leave Bangladesh, But Help Make Apparel Factories Safer

Bangladesh is a dangerous place to work in a factory as the Rana Plaza building collapse shows. Local health and safety regulations are so weak that last spring, even before the Rana Plaza disaster, executives at Disney decided they would no longer source toys and apparel from Bangladesh. The company felt the risk to its reputation wasn't worth the low cost of production.

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Dassault Systemes Launches Free Community With Access to SolidWorks

Dassault Systemes has launched a free community which provides single access to all content within SolidWorks, the vendor's application for product design and lifecycle management.

Commercial Building Automation Market Sees Growth, More SaaS Applications

A drive for cost savings and energy efficiency has brought a wave of new players and capabilities into the commercial building automation market. Rather than competing directly with the giants of the established building automation system (BAS) market, these new entrants are bringing additional managed data services to help drive greater efficiency.

'Green Tax' Index Measures How Nations Use Taxes to Influence Corporate Sustainability

Although the corporate tax director doesn't normally pow-wow each week with the head of sustainability, a new green-tax index just might encourage more talking between the two - and maybe with the CFO in on the conversation.

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Could China Be Getting Serious About Quality, Safety of Food Produced There?

And you thought Europeans had problems with their horse meat scandals. In China, consumers have to worry about getting served rat meat for dinner.

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