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Really Fast Fashion: How to Get Bespoke Clothes With the Click of a Button
Style trends are moving faster than ever in an age when a shopper can spot an outfit on Instagram and buy it with just a few clicks. That immediacy is prompting some in the fashion industry to experiment with a business model some are calling “click, buy and make.”
Customs Union Q&A: What Is It — and Can the U.K. Manage Without It?
Theresa May has ruled out staying in a customs union after Brexit, but are her proposals workable?
Better Than Amazon? How Bradley Jacobs Turned a $63M Bet Into a $12Bn Transportation Empire
Decades ago, Bradley Jacobs studied math and piano (classical and jazz) at Bennington and Brown before dropping out to make money. Now the balding 61-year-old CEO of XPO Logistics invokes that background to explain how he's parlayed sequential roll-ups in the gritty businesses of garbage collection, heavy equipment rentals and delivering stuff into a $2.6bn net worth.
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U.K. Manufacturing Quality Hampered by Supply Chain Issues, Survey Says
Achieving quality in the supply chain is a major concern for manufacturers, and access to good raw materials is a growing issue, a survey of 200 U.K. manufacturers has found.
U.S. Navy Explores 3-D Printing With Explosive Materials
A small consultancy in Chattanooga, Tennessee is helping the U.S. Navy turn explosives into custom shapes using commercial 3-D printing techniques.
IMF Says the Global Smartphone Boom Has Reached Its Peak
The global smartphone boom that’s helped propel Asia’s economic growth and reshape trade channels in recent years may have peaked.
Amazon Is Launching International Shopping From the U.S.
Amazon is expanding the reach of its U.S. store.
‘Try Before You Buy’: A Huge Logistics Challenge for E-Tailers
Selling apparel and other merchandise over the internet is difficult enough for retailers as it is. Now they want to make it even tougher on themselves.
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The Staggering Environmental Footprint of All the Food That We Throw in the Trash
The mass quantities of food Americans waste every year has staggering environmental consequences, according to a study published this week.
Opinion: Aviation Industry May Be Vulnerable to Cyberattack Through Its Global Supply Chain
In March, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a troubling alert: Since the same month two years before, Russian state-sponsored hackers had been infiltrating the nation’s electricity grid and various infrastructure industries, including aviation, collecting information on how the networks were organized and what systems’ controls they had in place.
Bringing Blockchain to the Coffee Cup
Do you take your coffee with cream, sugar or blockchain?
How Crowdsourcing Can Help to Assess Financial Risk
How do you tell if your supply-chain partners are financially solvent? The crowd knows.
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