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Automotive Sales Continue Upswing in Western Europe in August
The Western European passenger car market recorded another strong uplift in sales volumes in August with a 10.3 percent year-on-year rise in sales to 706,041 units, according to the latest IHS Automotive forecast. This further pulled up the year-to-date increase for the first eight months of the year by 8.5 percent year over year to 10.07 million units. Following August's result, the final adjusted trend-cycle seasonally adjusted annual rate of sales showed its highest level since February 2010 with a figure of 13.4 million units.
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Google Wants to Be Your Grocer
Google Inc. will start testing a delivery service for fresh food and groceries in two U.S. cities later this year, stepping up competition with online retailer Amazon.com Inc. and start-up Instacart Inc.
Every Employee, From Top to Bottom, Must Participate for 'Cyber-security Culture' to Work
Cyber-security involves many different technical and informational solutions that must be adopted and implemented to position an organization for the greatest chance of resiliency in a complex threat landscape.
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Has the Barcode Seen Its Best Days?
The tried and true barcode may be approaching its twilight. Because of the increasing demand for information about products, the 41-year-old technology is due for an evolutionary replacement.
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Gabon Tops Ranking of Nations With Best Retail Opportunities in Africa
A.T. Kearney's 2015 African Retail Development Index (ARDI) reconfirms the potential of many nations throughout Africa.
MNX Global Opens Life Sciences Logistics Center in Amsterdam
MNX Global Logistics has opened a dedicated supply chain and logistics facility in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
RangeMe Launches Product-Discovery Service in U.S.
RangeMe, an online platform serving the consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector, has launched operations in the U.S.
High Backlogs, Tough Comps Lead to 5th Consecutive Decline of Net Orders for Classes 5-8
For the month of August, 37,200 orders for vehicles in classes 5-8 were booked, down 8 percent from July and down 14 percent compared to August 2014. However, these numbers are preliminary. Actual numbers will be published in mid-September.
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What Must We Do to Overcome the Truck Driver Shortage?
Transportation capacity problems have been a volatile issue over the past 20 years or so. A thorough analysis provided by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, in its "State of Logistics" report, indicates that by 2017, shippers in the U.S. will face shortages in trucking resources again, predominantly a trucker shortage, in the near future due to an array of developments that may cause shippers to find loads left on the ground, shipping costs rapidly escalating, and shrinking profit margins that stun stakeholders.
Opportunity to Reduce Climate Risks Missed by Major Food Producers, Report Claims
Many of the world's biggest food, beverage and tobacco brands are missing their biggest opportunity to mitigate climate risks, according to analysis by global non-profit CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project.
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Why Are More Retailers Offering In-store Pickup if It Isn't More Efficient Than Buying In-store?
For consumers, in-store pickup combines the ease of shopping online with the promptness of purchasing from a local retailer. But while it's been revealed that this method isn't any more efficient than just buying in-store, that hasn't stopped brick-and-mortar shops from adopting and promoting this service - nor has it dissuaded customers from using it.
Determining What Consumers Want Turns on More Than Demographics, Research Says
The conventional view is that consumers are fickle and inconsistent, hard to understand and predict, and therefore unmanageable. In fact, they are perfectly consistent, perfectly understandable, and quite predictable.
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