China’s Outsourcing Appeal Dimming
Harry Kazazian built his business on sleeping bags that are made in China and shipped across the ocean to the United States, but he realized recently that the math doesn’t work anymore. The export model that has powered China and other Asian countries for three decades will be compromised if fuel prices continue to rise, [...]
EC school furniture saga drags on through the courts
MANY Eastern Cape schools are likely to go through the rest of this academic year with no school furniture as the Education Department is still embroiled in a bitter legal battle over a R102million tender.
Earlier this year, the department was slapped with an interdict by the Bhisho High Court after Bongile Nkola, the managing director [...]
Furniture Made from Recycled Computer Game Consoles
Pli, based in Dulwich, has devised the ‘The Reee Chair’, using recycled computer games console casings to create connected components for the seat and back.
Designed and manufactured in the UK, the Reee chair competes with virgin plastic rivals on price and quality – but critically communicates the recycling message in what the company describes as [...]
Furniture mall opens ninth showroom in Klang Valley
The kitchen and wardrobe specialist, opened its ninth showroom in the Klang Valley at the Sunway Pyramid shopping mall recently.
According to Managing Director and Founder of Kian Classic, Mr. Kenny Yap Kian Wee, “with this new showroom, we are introducing a whole new idea to home furnishing which is the one stop concept,†he said.
With [...]