Junk Food Opens Web Store.
Junk Food Clothing opens its virtual shopping destination online LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Junk Food Clothing, the global leader in vintage inspired pop culture apparel, has announced the opening of its new web store, http://www.junkfoodclothing.com/. The easy to navigate website features graphic assortments from more...

Eco Fashion Meets Homelessness as Sierra Club Socks Launch for Holiday Shopping.
MORRISVILLE, N.C., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Devmir Inc. has introduced a line of organic socks under the Sierra Club brand. The eco-fashion socks are being launched in an aggressive grass roots campaign called a "sock-athon" to benefit the homeless and the Sierra Club. For every pair of socks purchased...

1890 ads track business; Booklet sheds light on life from a long-gone era.
Byline: Ed Patenaude COLUMN: SO I'VE HEARD Peter A. Strzelewicz, owner of an arts and signs business in Dudley and a well-known wildlife artist, came into a local food place last Thursday, noticed my presence and moved to a doorway. Mr. Strzelewicz returned...

Fabric suppliers in Surat, Erode and Bhiwandi face lack of orders due to extented winters.
AHMEDABAD: The cold wave seems to have accentuated the North-South divide down to its very fabric. The extended winter has pooped the textile party for manufacturers in western and southern India. The summer fabric suppliers in Surat, Erode and Bhiwandi are nursing a severe frost-bite that has left them...

Jinjiang Sci-Tech completes .
The first-phase PA (polyamide) 66 project funded by Fujian Jinjiang Sci-Tech Co., Ltd. with an investment of RMB330 million started production in Changle, Fujian province on September 9th. The first phase includes 16 production lines and the capacity can reach 30 000 t/a. In May 2007 Jinjiang Sci-Tech Co.,...

Rising Re adds to Coimbatore exporters' woes.
Byline: Gayathri G COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore region, known for its entrepreneurial spirit and which proved its mettle on the global front by exporting quality goods, has come to grief thanks to the continuously appreciating rupee against the US dollar. As the rupee edges closer to...

Socking it to strawberry root rot.
Strawberry plants grown in compost-filled mesh tubes, or "socks," had significantly less chance of getting black root rot, a severe threat to yields, than plants grown directly in infested soils reveals an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) study. No methyl bromide or any other soil fumigant was used...

William A. Yoffie.
WORCESTER William A. Yoffie, 90, of 770 Salisbury St. died at the Jewish Healthcare Center after a long illness. He leaves his wife of 64 years, Judith (Swire) Yoffie; three sons, Alan S. Yoffie and his wife Johanna of Worcester, Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie and his wife...

Tirupur exports cross Rs 11,000 crore in FY07.
COIMBATORE: Readymade garment and knitwear exports from Tirupur have crossed Rs 11,000 crore during 2006-07, according to the Tirupur Exporters' Association (TEA). "Earlier, TEA set a target of Rs 10,000 crore export to be achieved by 2007 ( calendar year). But, it has crossed Rs 11,000 crore...

Tirupur knitwear needs policy push.
Byline: Gayathri G COIMBATORE: Even though the garment industry has in recent years been unshackled from the growth-limiting factors such as SSI reservation and high tax burden in the man-made fibre value chain, a clutch of apparel manufacturing hubs in the country are yet to fully benefit...