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Volkswagen says supply-chain problems are easing even as some Audi buyers face year-long wait times
Executives with German automobile maker Volkswagen said at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, that supply-chain problems exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine war are easing but they’...
Toyota Is Cutting Car Production Again. It’s Bad News for Inflation.
Text size A scene from a Toyoya production line in India. Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg Global car production has been hampered for months because of a plethora of supply-chain and logistics issues. Investor...
This Half-Built Ohio Factory Shows How Peloton Mismanaged the Pandemic
In a northwest Ohio industrial park, up the highway from a new Amazon.com Inc. warehouse and a soon-to-open solar-panel plant, Peloton Interactive is building a million-square-foot factory that it wil...
The Great Retail Reset Hits The Bullseye: Getting Back On Target
This week Target became the canary in the coal mine, as it lost nearly 25% of its value. Many viewed … [+] this as a market over correction. Getty Images The market “shock and awe” that took pla...
Applied Materials whiffs across the board on earnings, stock drops
Applied Materials Inc. shares declined in the extended session Thursday after the semiconductor-manufacturing equipment maker missed on earnings, revenue and its forecast and pointed at continuing sup...
Gatik And Walmart Notch A Big Win In Kansas With New Law Enabling Driverless Vehicle Deployment
Gatik’s policy partnership with Walmart is a formidable one. Gatik Gatik announced today that it will be expanding operations to Kansas following the signing of Senate Bill 313 into law by Governor La...
The Key Ingredients Shaping The Future Of Food Part 2
TULARE, CA – FEBRUARY 12: A Quantix drone made by AeroVironment (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) Getty Images The convergence of revolutionary technologies — chemicals, materials, life scienc...
Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Fueling ‘Catastrophic’ Malnutrition Among Children, Unicef Warns
Topline Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is fueling a “catastrophic” wave of malnutrition among young children, the United Nations’ children’s agency agency warned on Tuesday, urging governments to do mor...
How Furniture Brands And Manufacturers Are Coping With Ongoing Supply Chain Strain
Castlery is one furniture retailer looking to work around ongoing supply chain delays. Castlery Supply chains and logistics were thrown into chaos during the pandemic, creating a number of challenges ...
Plus Partners With Velociti To Install PlusDrive On Existing Truck Tractors
PlusDrive equipped trucks are on the roads now. The Plus Build partnership with Velociti aims to … [+] increase the pace of deployment. Plus.ai Self-driving truck developer Plus announced today ...
Collective Pain Calls For Collective Action
Collective Behavior has gotten a bad rap. When sociologist Franklin Henry Giddings coined the term more than 100 years ago, he described it as the actions that a loosely organized group of people migh...
Supply-Chain Snags Create Shortages Of Life-Saving Medical Supplies In U.S.
An unprecedented strain on American healthcare systems is expected to worsen. Lori Lee spends a lot of time trying to keep Connecticut’s largest health system stocked with medical supplies from IV lin...
Front-Runner Bongbong Marcos Could Help America’s Retail Supply Chain
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – FEBRUARY 19: Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., the son of the late dictator … [+] Ferdinand Marcos, and Davao city Mayor Sara Duterte, daughter of Presiden...
Retailers Scramble to Adapt As Inflation; Supply Chain Woes Persist
Retailers Scramble to Adapt as Inflation; Supply Chain Woes Persist getty The rules of retailing are being rewritten as hope fades that inflation will subside any time soon, or that supply chain disru...
Stagflation Threat Is Latest Nail-Biter For Retailers
Stagflation Shutterstock To the list of recent retail industry headaches — COVID, the great resignation, supply chain disruptions, inflation, declining consumer sentiment — we can now add the looming ...
Tesla earnings: Stock jumps after record profit, sales despite supply-chain woes
Tesla Inc. late Wednesday reported another record quarter of sales and profit, blowing past Wall Street estimates even though it said its factories continue to run below capacity due to supply-chain p...
Manufacturing And Inflation Explained
Consumers see jacked up prices at the gas pump, notice a rising bill for household items, or deal with the reality of an expensive housing market. But they may not understand the additional market for...
China’s Nio halts EV production as COVID lockdowns disrupt its supply chain
Nio Inc., the China-based electric-vehicle maker, over the weekend warned of delivery delays after suspending production due to COVID-19 restrictions that have disrupted its supply chain. “There will ...
How Crocs, Kohl’s, And Other Brands Are Dodging The Supply Chain Margin Squeeze
Supply Chain getty For the past two years the retail industry has been whipsawed by a market landscape that seems to be constantly and dramatically changing. Lockdowns, supply chain disruptions, soari...
How Bad Are Supply-Chain Delays? So Bad That Companies Are Already Placing Holiday Orders
It still takes an average of 80 to 90 days for items to be transported to the U.S. from Asia, double a previous range of 40 to 50 days. © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP Plagued by problems from last year t...
The Russian Invasion, Cyber War, And Global Supply Chains
A close-up on an abstract design of a display, which is warning about a cyber attack. Multiple rows … [+] of hexadecimal code are interrupted by red glowing warnings and single character exclama...
Tesla Deliveries Rose in Quarter Elon Musk Calls Exceptionally Difficult
Tesla Inc. vehicle deliveries rose in the first quarter, but missed Wall Street expectations as the company struggled with global supply-chain disruptions and a brief Covid-19 shutdown at its Shanghai...
Supply Chain Crisis Is Retailers’ New Normal
Shopper staring at empty shelves getty For a moment, at the end of last year, it seemed like the sun was beginning to set on the pandemic. Container volume at key ports like Los Angeles had reached a ...
How Bad Inflation Might Get, According To The Companies That Will Raise Prices
It’s still much more expensive to get stuff to the U.S. from Asia a year after shipping costs first shot up. By Amy Feldman and Lauren Debter Try as he might, Greg Hayes, CEO of office-furniture compa...
Opinion: The Fed must boost rates by a full percentage point at every meeting to bring down inflation and avoid a job-killing recession
The Fed has taken aim at inflation, but it isn’t moving fast enough. Earlier this month the Fed boosted the federal funds rate by half a point, and more half and quarter point increases are almost cer...