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...Brian Whitlock, a Gartner research analyst specialising in logistics, said it would be too little, too late to ease retailers’ holiday season concerns....
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...This is more like a sale than a permanent roll back of ‘whole paycheck’ pricing....
...With hundreds of components going into each handset, Nokia manages an extraordinarily efficient logistics chain that handles over 60 billion components a year....
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...Emile Naus, former head of logistics strategy at Marks and Spencer, the UK retailer, and now partner and technical director at LCP Consulting, a specialist supply chain strategy firm, speaks of a big opportunity...
...Take Two Entertainment's GTA V sold $800m worth of copies on its first day last September....
...“Surprise would be an understatement,” a Citi executive said on Thursday, as the bank faced a slumping share price and some analysts’ calls for heads to roll....
...To offer standardised products on a massive scale, they created supply chains from scratch or relied on established US partners, making the food safety violations in Shanghai more an American problem than...
...Coal cars squeal as they roll down a slope towards a pair of vast cylindrical machines....
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...“GTA games are an event, much like the biggest franchises in the movie space, the game has a massive following and a widespread audience,” said Piers Harding-Rolls, games analyst at IHS....
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...Trucking groups’ year-end results all painted a similarly gloomy picture of demand in December....
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