Personal & Household Items

London/UK, – Commencing in February 2007, Kuehne + Nagel has won a contract with House of Fraser to carry out its home delivery services for made-to-order furniture.
Under the terms of the contract the leading global Logistics provider will take care of warehousing and around 30,000 deliveries per year to consumers across the UK and Ireland.
The two companies are working closely together to increase the efficiency of House of Fraser’s current home service systems. A closer alignment of order to delivery time will allow House of Fraser to make cost savings through reduced inventory, and thus create a leaner supply chain. This will be supported by Kuehne + Nagel’s award winning IT and booking processes. The House of Fraser business will be incorporated into Kuehne + Nagel’s dedicated furniture distribution network, which is already used by other major furniture retailers in the UK for more than 175,000 home deliveries each year.

Salt business of international food and agricultural provider driving strategic plant improvements with EMI leader.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN and Redwood CITY, CA — Cargill, Incorporated’s Salt business unit announced today that it is using The Informance Plant Solution to accelerate its manufacturing performance. Cargill Salt is also drawing on Informance’s expertise to compound productivity gains, support equipment reliability initiatives and maximize assets across their many plant sites throughout the U.S.

Using Informance, Cargill Salt quickly identified and prioritized production improvement opportunities to increase sprint capacity during peak production seasons. The enhanced visibility for process improvement enabled operations management to take decisive action that aligned with the company’s overall reliability initiatives.

Mintel GNPD IRIS Positioned to Reduce New Product Development Costs By Up to 80 Percent

CHICAGO and LONDON – January 4, 2007 – Leading market researcher Mintel has collaborated with Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), the leading global provider of enterprise market information solutions for the consumer packaged goods (CPG), retail and healthcare industries, to launch a unique tool that is positioned to reduce the cost of new product development. The company has introduced GNPD IRIS, a product that works in conjunction with the Mintel Global New Products Database (GNPD) to allow CPG companies to monitor the sales successes and failures of new products and established brands. GNPD IRIS has the potential to ultimately reduce development costs by up to 80 percent.