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How thredUP Upends the Thrift-Shop Concept

It's a sign of the times that an online secondhand apparel store is running a national TV advertising campaign - and that there is a large online secondhand apparel store to begin with.

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Japanese Smart Factory Represents the Future of Manufacturing

The top manufacturing facility of Toyota transmissions isn't based in Japan but in Durham, North Carolina. The AW North Carolina (AWNC) plant - a subsidiary of AW, which is based in Anjo City, Japan - churns out more than 600,000 automatic transmissions per year for models such as the Camry, Tundra, Tacoma, Sequoia and, most recently, the Rav4.

Maersk Line: Third-Party Data Not Affected by Petya

In an update last week, Maersk Line gave more information into the causes and effects of the Petya cyberattack, which struck its core business IT systems on June 27. Its damage took Maersk weeks to fully repair.

Border Tax and Nafta Exit Could Harm U.S. Motor Vehicle Industry, Study Finds

Two proposed policy changes - imposing a border adjustment tax (BAT) and withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) - would likely fail to achieve their goal of reversing the trend of offshoring manufacturing to low-cost countries and could potentially harm the U.S. motor vehicle industry, according to a new study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

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Unilever Cuts Costs on Flights, Products As Activists Circle

Unilever is sharpening its focus on profitability by lifting prices and cutting spending on everything from employee flights to product ingredients as activist investors take aim at consumer-goods giants wrestling with slow growth.

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Water Reduction, Energy Efforts Achieve $72,000 Savings at Meat Processing Plant

Italian meat processor and producer Inalca SpA's projects to reduce water and energy use at its plant in Rieti, Italy, resulted in annual savings of 3.7 million gallons of water and more than $72,000.

As Companies Relocate to Big Cities, Suburban Towns Are Left Scrambling

In Oak Brook, Illinois, visitors to the McDonald's wooded corporate campus enter on a driveway named for the late chief executive Ray Kroc, then turn onto Ronald Lane before reaching Hamburger University, where more than 80,000 people have been trained as fast-food managers.

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AI Technologies Will Be in Most New Software Products by 2020, Analysts Say

Market hype and growing interest in artificial intelligence (AI) are pushing established software vendors to introduce AI into their product strategy, creating considerable confusion in the process, according to recent research by Gartner, Inc. Analysts predict that by 2020, AI technologies will be virtually pervasive in almost every new software product and service.

CSX Warns of 'Bumps in the Road' As It Tightens Rail Schedules

CSX Corp. is telling some shippers to brace for growing pains, including additional days of transit times, as the railway implements Chief Executive Hunter Harrison's plan to tighten schedules.

Americans Want U.S. Goods - But Aren't Willing to Pay More, Poll Says

Americans say they love U.S.-made goods. They are less enthusiastic, however, about paying a premium for them.

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Autonomous Ships: Regulations in Their Wake

The general public is well aware of the continuing development of autonomous vehicles - the media constantly provides stories on the advances of these self-driving cars, trucks and cabs. While not receiving the same media amount of coverage, the technology for autonomous ships is also rapidly developing.

DHL Launches Green E-Commerce Deliveries in Vietnam

DHL eCommerce has launched a domestic delivery service in Vietnam, helping small, medium and large e-tailers by handling cash-on-delivery services for customers that lack online payment ability.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

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