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...The factory not only employs fabrics from Lancashire and Somerset, but also wool from sheep on Mr Ashley’s farm as wadding....
...The majority of its 466,000 workers are employed on family-owned farms producing cereals, meat, dairy and poultry goods....
...Since the deal KPC has invested heavily in machinery and built up its supply network with retailers such as McDonald’s, Yum Brands and Shake Shack....
...Wind and solar farms have always had faithful adherents in the environmental movement but now more than 3,500 churches have turned their back on fossil fuels to embrace renewable energy....
...Those affected include Caterpillar, the world’s largest maker of construction machinery....
...Meanwhile, rising corn and soyabean inventories and capital stock are expected to hurt demand for farm equipment....
...If you wanted farm goods or something like that, you had to go to the local markets.”...
...Owned by Mr Li, the parent company manufactures innovative thin-film solar panels for third parties and its own solar farms in China and Ghana....
...“The slowdown has been most pronounced in the sale of large farm machinery, including many of our most profitable models,” Samuel Allen, chief executive, said....
...Yet despite its large domestic market, India’s industrial weakness means it depends on China and other exporters for goods from industrial machinery and mobile phones to more basic products such as lights...
...The bulk of African exports to the region are commodities and precious metals, while machinery and other goods make the return journey....
...Last year, Ralls Corp, a Delaware-based company owned by two executives from Sany Group, China’s biggest machinery manufacturer, was forced to unwind its purchase of wind-farm assets over “national security...
...Yet it has had to rebrand more slowly in areas where Chinese power has been controversial, such as in Queensland’s agricultural sector, where some were angered by the sale of a huge cotton farm to a consortium...
...From one of Britain’s newest energy suppliers to the builder of Africa’s largest wind farm, the northwest’s power sector has come to prominence in recent weeks....
...Sany Group Co., China’s biggest machinery maker, will use all legal efforts to win compensation after U.S....
...“The US treats China like a hostile country,” said Mr Xiang, who is a board member of Sany Heavy, the world’s ninth’s-largest construction machinery maker by sales....
...Risk aversion increased after Friday’s monthly non-farm payrolls report showed the world’s largest economy added just 80,000 jobs in June, missing forecasts of about 95,000....
...JCB, the maker of earthmoving machinery, achieved record revenues and earnings in 2011 on strong demand from agricultural producers and a shift in its sales mix towards bigger equipment....
...Farm machinery maker Kubota climbed 1.4 per cent to Y795 after Goldman raised it to “neutral” from “sell”....
...From smartphones to farm threshers, they are elbowing aside foreign, not local, competitors....
...Moving (bits of) the BBC to Salford was a start; now send the rest to Wigan....
...The sudden halt has led to system-wide whiplash, leaving workers without pay, battalions of heavy machinery sitting idle and setting back plans for bullet trains that were meant to carry the nation’s future...
...Medical equipment and hospital supplies to telecommunications, water, farm machinery and software services are in need of foreign investment....
...In addition, the company has helped develop smaller machinery better suited to the scale of Chinese farms. It has cajoled government at a local and national level to provide subsidies....
...Mark Ridgway, MD, Group Rhodes, the machinery company. Simon Roberts, chief executive, Centre for Sustainable Energy. Nick Robertson, chief executive, Asos.com, the fashion company....
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