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What a Treat for Retailers: Consumers to Spend $6.9Bn on Halloween This Year

Once mostly the purview of children, Halloween has grown into a major consumer holiday that now includes 18 to 34 year-old millennials and older adults who seize the opportunity for a night of escapism.

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Old Dominion Freight Line Teams With Mallory Alexander

Old Dominion Freight Line Inc. has entered into a strategic alliance with Mallory Alexander International Logistics LLC for ocean freight-forwarding services.

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Glacier Introduces Kodiak Mobile Forklift Computer

Glacier Computer has added the Kodiak Forklift Computer to its line of mobile industrial computing devices.

Bangladesh - The Next Growth Market for Your Products?

You feel the energy soon after disembarking at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. All of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, seems to throb with bustling masses of people. Bridges, expressway overpasses, and major new neighborhoods are continually under construction. Evidence of the country's rising disposable income is on display at crowded shopping malls such as Jamuna Future Park, the largest in South Asia, and new billboards, which seem to cover every available space, advertise products as varied as packaged foods and smartphones.

Future-Proofing Tomorrow's Supply Chains

Over the past few years, supply chain management has evolved from a labor-intensive local process to a "low-touch" - in some cases "no-touch" - complex global network. Today, SCM involves end-to-end and integrated planning and execution processes with real-time collaboration across the value chain. Such a system possesses tremendous flexibility in adjusting to a dynamic and consumer-driven marketplace.

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Given Global Overcapacity, Chinese Province Orders Huge Cutback in Ship Building

Severe shipyard overcapacity in China has prompted the National Development and Report Commission's Jiangsu province to cancel work on 23 projects. The projects included construction of new docks, offshore vessels, facility conversion projects and additional expansions.

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The Cloud Could Be Safer Than Any Private System, U.S. CIO Says

Tony Scott, U.S. CIO, says there is no safer place to store data than in the cloud.

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American Airlines Cargo Adds Global Leasing Option

American Airlines Cargo has developed a new leasing program for the temperature-controlled unit load device known as CSafe Global RKN. The high-tech units are capable of maintaining a temperature of four to 25 degrees Celsius through long flights and extended hold times.

RFID Helps Manufacturer of Luxury Leather Furniture with Receipt of Supplies, Inventory Control

Luxury leather furniture company Poltrona Frau Group has begun deploying a radio frequency identification system to reduce time and errors related to the receiving of leather upholstery material from its suppliers, and to inventory checks at its own storage area and third-party storage offsite.

The Cloud: Hackers' New Thieving Ground

Criminals go where they can do the most damage with minimal effort. It's why, for years, hackers targeted Windows rather than Macs - it was where the users, and in turn the data, were. And now we're seeing a steady migration from one platform to the next as popularity grows. Hackers moved from Windows to Apple's OS to mobile. Now, unsurprisingly, they are targeting the cloud.

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Once Sanctions Cash Rolls In, Iran Plans to Beef Up Its Maritime Fleet

With U.S.-led sanctions expected to be lifted soon as part of July's nuclear deal, Iran has unveiled a $120bn fleet expansion campaign.

Cheaper Diesel Causes Sales of Natural-Gas-Powered Trucks to Decline

NG powered Class 8 truck and bus sales continue, but at a slower pace compared to 2014, as well as when calculated as a percentage of the total market, according to a report from ACT Research. The "Natural Gas Quarterly" attributes the rapidly declining cost of diesel with making the return on investment for adoption of natural gas less lucrative.

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

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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