Market momentum for airfreight is carrying into the summer of 2017 - with rates across 21 major east-west trade lanes up by 1.1 percent, year-over-year, to reach $2.81 per kilogram, according to Drewry's latest East-West Airfreight Price Index.

The world's largest McDonald's franchisee, Arcos Dorados, recently said in a sustainability report that its large footprint across Latin America and the Caribbean means that it must "take a leadership role" in terms of implementing programs that will improve its environmental impact.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software doesn't live up to its acronym. Forget about planning - it doesn't do much of that - and forget about resource, a throwaway term.

Build it and they will come. That is the view many organizations maintain about their data lakes and data warehouses. Companies are rapidly investing in systems and processes to retain business data that they know is valuable. But they have no clue what to do with it.

U.K. factory production reached a two-decade high last quarter as optimism about export orders swelled to the highest since the 1970s.

Foxconn Technology Group's plan to invest $7bn in U.S. manufacturing has touched off a scramble among three heartland states. At stake are not only jobs - but votes as well.

A free website has launched that allows investors and the general public to research corporate environmental financial disclosures.