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Cubans snapped up DVD players, motorbikes and pressure cookers for the first time Tuesday as Raul Castro's new government loosened controls on consumer goods. (April 2)
| Japan's Stocks Decline on U.S. Consumer Spending; Honda Drops (Bloomberg.com) Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's stocks fell the most in two weeks after U.S. consumer spending slowed in July, raising concern that demand for Japanese-made goods will fall in the world's largest economy. |
| Japan's Stocks Decline on U.S. Consumer Spending; Honda Drops (Bloomberg.com) Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's stocks declined after U.S. consumer spending slowed in July, raising concern that demand for Japanese-made goods will fall in the world's largest economy. |
| Bankruptcy Filing Rate Among Seniors Increases Amid Rising Costs For Health Care, Consumer Goods, Analysis Finds (Medical News Today) The rate of bankruptcy filings for people older than age 55 has increased since 1991 as a result of several factors, including rising costs for consumer goods and health care, according to a Consumer Bankruptcy Project analysis that will appear in the January edition of the Harvard Law and Policy Review, the AP/Washington Post reports. |
| Consumer Goods Companies Slow at Proactively Monitoring Supply Chain Risk (Industry Week) Aug. 29, 2008 -- Consumer goods companies and retailers are surprisingly placing very little emphasis on proactively monitoring supply chain risk, according to a new study by TradeCard, Inc., a supply chain collaboration platform. |
| Sharp to quadruple home appliance sales by 2012/13 (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News) TOKYO, Sept 1 (Reuters) -Japanese consumer electronics maker Sharp Corp <6753.T> said on Monday it plans to quadruple sales of its home appliances by the year ending in March 2013 by boosting sales of its energy-efficient and environmentally friendly white goods. |
