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Half of the U.K.'s Food Industry Might Bail Because of Brexit

Nearly half of businesses operating in Britain's food supply chain say European Union workers are thinking about leaving because of uncertainty around Brexit, a recent industry survey showed.

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Opinion: There's Too Much Hype Surrounding Blockchain in the Supply Chain

In logistics, the best known blockchain pilot program involved Maersk and IBM. It centered on creating a digital distributed ledger to create a single electronic place where all the myriad documents related to a shipment could be housed.

Supply Chain Terrorism Is Here to Stay, National Standards Group Says

Terrorist attacks on supply chains have increased 16 percent year-on-year, according to the British Standards Institution.

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Harvey's Toll on Energy Industry Shows Vulnerability

For years, much of the nation's refinery capacity and chemical production have been concentrated along the swamps and narrow inlets of the Gulf of Mexico, risking devastation in a monster storm.

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Why Florida Farmers Want to Kill Nafta

Duette, Fla., a tiny farm town about 50 miles east of St. Petersburg, averages about 52 inches of annual rainfall. This year it's ahead of schedule, with 63 inches since June, when the rainy season began. For Gary Reeder and other tomato farmers, that's slowed down everything and threatened their ability to bring the harvest in on time.

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China's 'Robot Revolution' May Weigh on Global Rebalancing

China is installing more robots than any other nation, and that may affect every other nation.

Global Leaders Commit to Eradicating Modern Slavery

Global business tycoons and politicians from 48 countries committed to ending human trafficking, forced labour and modern slavery last month at a landmark gathering of high-profile leaders in the Australian city of Perth.

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More Restrictions Announced for Toxic Pesticide

California has moved a step closer to banning a widely used agricultural pesticide linked to birth defects, openly departing from the Trump administration's decision to walk back an Obama-era effort to ban the chemical.

Samsung Takes Extra Safety Steps With New Galaxy Note Smartphone

The Galaxy Note 7 met an untimely demise last year after dozens of the Samsung phones overheated or exploded. So Samsung has taken extra steps to make sure the Note 7's successor does not suffer the same outcome.

As U.S. Exports More Natural Gas, Manufacturers Worry About Increased Prices

If you ask the manufacturing and chemical sectors what their greatest blessing has been in recent years, the answer will generally be the plethora of natural gas that has been made accessible to them - and how this has decreased their cost of doing of business.

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Supplying Lithium Gets Trickier As Electric Revolution Looms

Hidden within the salt flats high in the Andes mountains of South America are vast deposits of the lithium that Elon Musk may need for his electric-car revolution. But extracting the mineral from brine ponds created by Orocobre Ltd. has proved more difficult than expected.

Seven Things You Should Be Doing About Brexit

A seven-point checklist has been produced by the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply to help procurement professionals prepare for Brexit.

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