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Interest in Consolidation Continues to Grow in Farm Supplies Market
Six companies dominate the business of farm supplies. The interest of Monsanto, the world's biggest seed producer, in buying Syngenta, the largest agrochemicals firm, had threatened to whittle them down to five. That raised worries about whether the reduction in competition would mean less innovation - and thus slower improvements in crop yields - as well as higher costs for farmers.
As Teens Spend Less, Retailers Have to Remodel Their Marketing Strategy
Teens are shopping like their parents during the back-to-school season, and that's putting a lot of pressure on retailers to change the way they market to them.
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Post-Katrina, New Orleans Sees Benefit of Using Cloud to Enable Disaster Recover
The City of New Orleans and private businesses that struggled to survive the devastation of Hurricane Katrina learned some valuable lessons. One of the primary caveats when it comes to business continuity is to mitigate risk by embracing the cloud.
British Airways Bucks Industry Trend, Sees Valuable Role for 747 at Crowded Airports
If it's the end of the line for Boeing Co.'s 747 jetliner, nobody told British Airways.
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CEOs Should Stop Squinting in the Rear-view (Data) Mirror, and Look Ahead
If the company is the bus and its leader is the driver, as Jim Collins' famous analogy states, then it stands to reason that when the bus is moving, the driver should mostly be looking out the windshield (toward the future) rather than consulting the rear-view mirror.
How Extensive Is Employer's Obligation to Provide Workplace Safety?
It is a nightmare for any employer: what to do with a volatile, constantly aggrieved worker who has had angry, even frightening confrontations with fellow workers - yet has committed no crime.
Affordable Care Act Hasn't Affected Hiring Patterns, 78 Percent of CFOs Say
Seventy-eight percent of chief financial officers say the legislation over the Affordable Care Act has not affected their hiring patterns, according to a survey by Consero Group, which reported results as part of the 2015 Corporate Finance Data Survey.
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Yusen Logistics Introduces Customs Clearance in Russian Federation
Yusen Logistics Russia has become a federal customs license holder within the Russian Federation, allowing it to introduce a portfolio of customs-clearance services in Russia.
Dow Chemical: A Supply Chain Under Constant Change
Noelle Walsh, corporation vice president of supply chain with The Dow Chemical Company, outlines the chemical industry giant's efforts to become more customer-focused, while synchronizing its supply chain upstream to suppliers, and downstream to customers.
Why Aren't Suppliers More Concerned About Food Safety?
On average, $10m is the cost of a recall on a food company. Add this to the fact that recalls have been doubling every year from the 2002-2014 period in the United States, and it should worry any stakeholder in the manufacturing and processing facilities. Yet many of them are surprisingly optimistic about the chance of a recall affecting business, and it's their belief of invincibility that leaves them unprepared to weather a storm when one blows up. When manufacturers take a risk on their customers' health, they take a risk on their business’s health.
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Are Makers of IoT Devices, Systems Obligated to Build in Anti-hacking Security?
With the current state of IoT security, we might call it the Internet-of-Vulnerable-Things. It's all the more alarming because of the types of physical machines/systems that are increasingly network-connected - traffic lights, airplanes, nuclear power plants, and other critical or potentially lethal systems.
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Inttra Unveils Dashboards to Measure Shipment Reliability, Booking Speed
Inttra, an ocean-shipping electronic marketplace, has introduced Inttra Marketplace Decision Support.
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