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Dark and Expensive - Chocolate Lovers Are Going Healthy 2007-08-23 07:22:44 If the word chocolate has you thinking ’sweet’, or ’sinful’ think again. Words that should spring to mind are ‘dark’, ‘healthy’ or even just ‘expensive’.
A new report says that more people are buying dark chocolate because it’s associated with promoting good health, and that this segment of the chocolate market is [...] Read more:Chocolate
, Lovers
, Going
Report Buyer now has 30,000 business reports available for purchase 2007-08-10 07:37:17 Report Buyer
continues to build specialised intelligence catalogue
TODAY, Report Buyer, the dedicated online store for market research across all sectors announces that its catalogue of specialised information has exceeded 30,000 in number.
Report Buyer was launched in January 2007, and its collection features products that reflect up- to-the-minute, industry-related information about key areas of the [...] Read more:available
Cities Aim For 24/7 Public Internet Connectivity 2007-08-10 05:09:52 Is your internet connection at home being difficult? No sweat, you can soon run down and check your email on the nearest traffic light.
About 400 cities in the US and UK have deployed or are currently building municipal wireless internet connections which will see service providers using the city’s infrastructure to provide community wireless access, [...] Read more:Cities
, Public
, Internet
, Connectivity
‘Big Pharma’ must plan ahead as patent expiries stimulate generics growth 2007-08-08 04:06:20 Recent figures show that the global generics market grew by 20% in 2005 – three times the amount by which the pharma sector grew, and four times the growth of patented drugs. In fact, Cygnus predicts continued growth for the sector in the next five years, forecasting a CAGR of 13.62% for 2006-2010.
Analysts have identified [...] Read more:Pharma
, ahead
Could smaller be beautiful for restructuring pharma? 2007-08-02 09:16:54 Close examination of the pharmaceutical industry at present reveals a fairly troubled patient. The symptoms have gradually been deteriorating; drug development costs are soaring, R&D pipelines have yielded limited returns resulting in a steady drop in the number of product launches, and generic competition has intensified. At the same time, patent expiries have hit hard, [...]
Wine is Fine. But Changing Drinking Patterns Slow ‘Pint’ Sales 2007-07-31 10:49:20 Wine is fine, but beer isn’t quite so cool anymore, especially among older people. And that’s just what the sales figures for alcohol consumption will show in four years time, says a new report, Consumers’ Alcoholic Drinks Preferences: New Trends and Future Perspectives.
The new report predicts that beer sales in Europe are likely to nose-dive, [...] Read more:Changing
, Drinking
, Patterns
, lsquo
, Sales
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Cardiovascular Disease will be the Leading Cause of Death Worldwide by 2020 2007-07-26 11:58:05 Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report which forecasts that cardiovascular disease will overtake infectious diseases to become the leading cause of death worldwide in 13 years.
Stakeholder Insight: Atherosclerosis - HDL, ApoA-I, Carotid MRI and 64-slice CT Offer Opportunities For Future Treatment uses secondary research [...] Read more:Cardiovascular
, Leading
, Cause
, Worldwide
Swedes drive Europe’s biofuel usage 2007-07-26 10:14:16 In Stockholm, Sweden you will get free parking and free congestion charge when your car runs on biofuels. There are 800 service stations in Sweden providing biofuels and more starting to do so every year.
Maybe that’s the reason to why Volvo-cars are seen lined up on the streets, or perhaps, people have been fed up [...] Read more:drive
, Europe
Pampered Pets: Its a Dog’s life 2007-09-19 10:47:57 A new trend has set among pet owners, known as ‘functional pampering’- which is driving the premium pet products market. This is the latest example of how much care pet owners lavish on their pets.
Owners who make big money and spare no expense in caring for their pets (nicknamed uber-owners) are occupying a significant share [...]
Digital: the New Way of Broadcasting TV 2007-09-10 05:46:24 The industry is still struggling to find products to entice customers into digital TV. The only country where this product has been really successful is the USA, which accounts for more than 80% of the global online video market – worth between US$600 and $650 million. Video-on-demand is still the main product.
However, all around [...] Read more:Digital
, Broadcasting
No Dividends for Shareholders as Northern Rock seeks White Knight 2007-09-28 03:27:02 Would you reinvest in a bank that had credit problems, and had borrowed up to three billion pounds from the last-resort fund, Bank of England, because there is a possibility there might be a management change?
Northern
Rock has swiftly changed its stance, and reneged on its promise of a 59 million pound dividend payout to [...] Read more:Shareholders
, White
, Knight
Hollywood Launches: Will the Game Halo 3 Take More than Movie SpiderMan 3? 2007-09-26 11:09:42 If you’re not a video game fan, don’t expect to see any of your gaming friends for a while. Halo 3, one of the world’s most anticipated computer games, launched last night in London, in true Hollywood
film style.
Industry analysts are proclaiming that last night’s launch could be the biggest event this year in entertainment [...]
Scandinavia Leads the Way in Banning Food Additives 2007-09-26 10:10:47 Do you normally let your children eat marzipan, jams, sweets, brown sauce, yoghurts, jellies or cheesecake? If so, well then you’re up for real trouble if you listen to new research from the University of Southampton. All these products contain the chemical additive Carmoisine which is banned in Scandinavian countries, but not in the [...] Read more:Leads
, Banning
Will Speaking into Your Mobile Pay the Bills? 2007-09-24 09:23:53 Developed in the United Kingdom, the first voice-verified payment processing system has recently been launched, substantially reducing the threat of credit and debit fraud.
The Voice Pay system uses a customer’s own voice as a means of digitally signing and authorising payments. It incorporates VoiceVault voice biometric authentication technology that is already in use by global [...] Read more:Speaking
, Mobile
, Bills
Food Producers Must Respond to Consumers’ Guilt-Free Snacking 2007-09-10 06:48:37 Vitamins and antioxidants in my crisps? Hang on a minute- we’re talking about snacks here- not health food. It’s time for those distinctions to blur- we’re now in the age of guilt free snacking.
Snacking between meals is something all of us do: crisps, biscuits, chocolate, you name it. The only downside is, after a [...] Read more:Producers
, Respond
Skype Nudges Slow Telecom Market Forward 2007-10-03 10:10:34 Have you ever used Google, Skype
, YouTube or MySpace? Well if you have, you are part of a future which will be increasingly web-based with voice data and video services delivered in an open model. It’s goodbye to paying locked-in subscriptions.
A new report shows that Skype has changed telephony from a telecoms service to a [...] Read more:Telecom
, Market
, Forward
“HIPsters” Make Americans Improve their Homes 2007-10-03 09:21:48 If you’re American and a fan of your home look out for HIPsters or “HomeTrend Influentials” in the next coming year. Apparently these are the people influencing the rest of American “mainstream” home-owners.
According to a new report “HIPsters” pick up new home-related trends and embrace the latest home goods much sooner than the rest of [...] Read more:Americans
, Improve
, Homes
Beijing Hopes Olympics Will Significantly Boost Inbound Tourism 2007-10-01 04:03:07 The 2008 Olympics
in Beijing
will be instrumental in boosting the number of tourists visiting China. The world’s most populous nation is rapidly becoming a much-preferred tourist destination, having completely recovered from the signs of a slowdown in 2003 and 2004 caused by the SARS outbreak.
A new report has revealed that tourism in China has [...] Read more:Boost
, Tourism
Two Down, One to Go? Will Ford be the next Auto Manufacturer to be hit by strikes? 2007-10-15 05:46:30 The U.S automobile industry has seen less eventful times. Apart from Japanese rival firms like Toyota and Honda hotting up the competition by offering the most fuel-efficient cars, one of North America’s largest workers’ unions is bang in the middle of a series of strikes.
The United Auto Workers’ Union has ended a short [...] Read more:Manufacturer
Ethical Chocolate: The New Kid on The Confectionary Block 2007-10-11 08:49:36 It’s the age of voting with your wallets – so even the chocolate you add on top of that supermarket cart is a pretty good indicator of the causes you believe in. A new free report says that the fair-trade movement is rapidly coming into its own in the chocolate industry. Consumers are choosing to [...] Read more:Chocolate
iPhone Geared Up for the UK, Roll Outs Announced for Europe and Asia too 2007-10-10 10:51:07 Apple’s ‘revolutionary’ iPhone
will be available in the UK on November 9, 2007 via service provider O2. It will cost ₤269. The question is, are you set to finger tap your way to the newest way of making phone calls? A new report says the new phone could potentially transform the wireless industry, and also [...] Read more:Geared
, Europe
, Asia
Retailers Determine Age and Sex of Shoppers to Target In-store Adverts 2007-10-17 04:44:48 Is your worst nightmare walking in to a shop being bombarded with questions, having to try out clothes with someone breathing down your neck and telling you how well that colour suits you? Would you like a “personal shopper” without actually having to speak to a real person? Well, if so, this is for you.
A [...] Read more:Target
, Adverts
Are the Benefits of Anti-Obesity Drugs Going to Outweigh The Risks? 2007-10-22 12:05:07 Feeling fat?
Don’t worry, pop a pill.
An anti-obesity pill to be specific, and soon…you’ll be back to your slimline version again. If that seems more than slightly dangerous and also on the wrong side of futuristic, think again. We’re talking the next five years here. Take a look at a new report that says 2007-2012 [...] Read more:Benefits
, Drugs
, Going
, Risks
The Connection Between Being Black and Using a Credit Card 2007-10-18 10:26:29 Does the negative stereotyping of black people as hoodie-wearing, weapon-wielding, and social-security- using have far wider consequences than we think? I wonder if it’s a factor, for instance, in why the financial services providers have been slow in cultivating members of the community.
Maybe I’m one of those highly-strung people always looking for race-related undertones, but [...] Read more:Black
, Credit Card
Japanese Clothes Could be the Solution to Body Odour: All in a Fibre! 2007-10-30 03:35:51 Have you started to think about what to buy for your nearest and dearest this Christmas? Ever had friends with body odour, and never had the urge to tell them? Well, soon there will be a solution to both problems, and good bye to the stressful Christmas season.
A new report shows that Japanese
manufacturers are [...] Read more:Clothes
, Solution
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