The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) convention held June 18- 21st, 2012 drew 16,505 attendees representing the US and 65 countries. It is rumored that BIO will be back in Boston at the Convention Center again within the decade. Main Theme of the Bio Convention The main theme throughout the convention was “How do we fix [...]

Since the Facebook IPO there has been considerable debate over just how effective advertising on Facebook is. GM for instance famously cancelled their Facebook advertising because they didn’t think it produced strong enough results. The results of a new survey however suggest that many marketers that advertise on Facebook are not doing so with the [...]

Manufacturing and Supply Chain is slowly starting to become my new favourite sector, and in my opinion it’s definitely the sector to watch out for in 2012. With the massive complex problems the world faces in terms of the economy, employment and environmental and social sustainability, solving the key problems within the sector seems to [...]

There has been an abundance of topics that have been touched upon in our Business Performance division this year including data quality, establishing more specific business strategies, measuring your results, and transforming behaviour change. This blog looks at the winning themes and topics that captured the attention of the professionals within the industry. However, it’s [...]

Business – Business Wire Friday, Dec. 09, 2011 0 Comments Research and Markets: Triple Analysis: Leukemia, Lung Cancer and Melanoma E-Mail Print Reprint or license Text Size: DUBLIN — Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3ad9a0/triple_analysis_l) has announced the addition of the “Triple Analysis: Leukemia, Lung Cancer and Melanoma” report to their offering. This triple analysis focuses on cancer [...]

A look at data on how the industry chooses with whom to outsource, and what it really thinks about potential partners. By Paul Thomas, Senior Editor 1 vote Share Print Related RSS Text size: – + A year ago, Nice Insight, a division of the brand and marketing management firm That’s Nice, began using its [...]

By Jessica Burke on  8 December 2011 0 comments All this discussion about food labelling, obesity, additives, good fats versus bad fats, good carbs versus bad carbs is enough to make anyone’s head spin. We’re getting cancer from eating certain foods. We’re avoiding cancer by eating others. You need superfoods! There’s no such thing as [...]

2012 Trends December 7, 2011 By Rieva Lesonsky Are you in the restaurant, foodservice or food manufacturing business? No matter how tough the economy is, people still need to eat. And foodservice entrepreneurs have shown a lot of creativity in the past few years—in fact, you could almost say the recession has sparked a renaissance [...]

By George Dapont, Edmonton Journal December 8, 2011     Re: “Ottawa halts health product label testing; Budget constraints put program on hold,” The Journal, Dec. 2. First, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) did not cancel or postpone its retail survey activities. The CFIA has sampled many food products at retail this past year [...]

BY JEFFREY HOFFELT, LIVESTOCK EDITOR | 0 comments The world is now home to seven billion residents. The United Nation’s population milestone was met Oct. 30 when Danica May Camacho took her first breath in Manila’s Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in the Philippines. Adorned with a red knitted hat and wrapped in the arms of her [...]