Consumer Products News
Dish Network Add 22,000 Subscribers, Boost Profits by 24 Percent
Even though it seems like there is a long way for Dish Network to beat the race for being the number one satellite TV Company, Dish Network has still managed to add a remarkable lot of 22,000 subscribers to the viewing list.
Alex Gorsky to be Johnson & Johnson’s new CEO After Weldon
Johnson & Johnson has picked up a new CEO, to succeed Bill Weldon after his retirement in April this year. The healthcare giant J&J said its decade-old Chief Executive Officer William Weldon will step down from his post in April. To succeed him is the vice chairman Alex Gorsky, as the ninth chief executive officer of the 126 year-old company, while Weldon, aged 63, remains the chairman of the board.
4 Consumer Trends to Watch in 2012
With the new year just over a week away, it’s time for industry leaders to think about how to make 2012 better than 2011. One of the ways for industry leaders to do that is to take a look at what’s poised to be big in the new year, and to point the company in that direction. A new year comes with new ideas, new innovations, and new consumer trends. Here are four that industry leaders need to pay attention to in 2012:
Fabric that Purifies Air: Green Fashion with Catalytic Clothing
When the entire world is thinking up ways of bettering the environment by using technology and methods that reduce air pollution, Catalytic Clothing’s newest foray goes one step further, with their ethical fashion project that purifies surrounding air as one walks along. Ethical fashion, defined as “an approach to the design, sourcing and manufacture of [...]
ITRI comes out with i2R e-Paper which can be rewritten on over 250 times!
After winning the R&D 100 Awards, also known as the “Oscars of Innovation”, for three successive years in a row, the ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) has been awarded this year for two eco-friendly technologies, one of which is the rewritable i2R e-Paper, basically a liquid crystal panel. Promising to be both environmentally friendly and [...]
Aurumania Gold Bike Crystal Edition
Scandinavian company Aurumania’s gold bike crystal edition, uniquely hand-fabricated, plated with 24 carat gold and more than 600 fine swarovski crystals, is the world’s most expensive bicycle. Priced at 80,000 Euros, the company has, to start with, come out with only 10 limited editions of this golden bike. Each bike is hand-built, and then plated [...]
Chopard. A Tradition of Excellence.
Continuing to be a fully independent family firm to this day, Chopard is one of Switzerland’s best known luxury watch, jewelry, and accessories manufacturing company. Founded by Louis-Ulysse Chopard in 1860, Chopard, to start with, focussed on using innovative ideas towards developing precise pocket watches and chronometers. The company diversified and expanded within the luxury wrist watches [...]
Gruesome Graphic Warnings on Cigarette Packs: FDA’s new campaign
The first update in a quarter-century to statutory warnings on cigarette packs, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), released nine new graphic labels to be printed on cigarette packs, to enhance awareness about the consequences of smoking. The gruesome, disturbing graphics, such as that of a man blowing cigarette smoke out of a tracheotomy hole [...]
Apple claims Galaxy Tab copied from iPad; Sues Samsung
Not only the Galaxy Tab introduced by Samsung late last year, Apple is suing Samsung for allegedly copying their entire Galaxy range from Apple’s iPhone, iPod and iPad designs. Extending intellectual property violation notices directed towards a number of Samsung’s mobile devices, including the Indulge, Captivate, Epic 4G, Nexus S and Galaxy S 4G smartphones [...]
British American Tobacco’s new tobacco-free nicotine: Nicoventures
British American Tobacco (BAT), estimated to be the world’s second largest tobacco group by global market share, has confirmed reports of having established Nicoventures Limited, a start-up company that aims to commercialize sans-tobacco nicotine products which could help wean smokers off its cigarettes. A bold move you think ? Sure – in terms of creating [...]
