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Quotes about Thailand
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“ It's difficult to say when production in Thailand will return to normal. ”
In Toyota, Apple and Western Digital supply chains sunk by Thai floods -
“ Thailand is such a critical cog in the global supply chain for some of these industries. ”
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“ Japan and Thailand have set a whole set of hares running. ”
In Spotlight: What will hi-tech supply chains look like in 2012?
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Mentioned In 62 Articles
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Transnet Engineering explores new markets
Explore BDlive (May 3 2013) Sourcing , Public Sector , Transport & Logistics
... Majoka said there were many other opportunities in Latin America and in Southeast Asia, in countries such as Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. Transnet had commissioned rail studies and established that there would be inc...
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Comment Mentions: Australia Africa South Africa
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HSBC outsources FM across property portfolio
Explore Procurement Leaders Network (Jan 28 2013) Financial Services , Services Procurement
...es Lang LaSalle’s responsibilities, and renews existing facility management services in North America, China, Thailand, Mexico and Panama. Jones Lang LaSalle also acts as one of HSBC’s regional transaction partners, serv...
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Majors court kingpin Eni on Mozambique gas bonanza
Explore Engineering News (Dec 11 2012) Resources , Fuels & Lubricants
...epwater specialist, recently bought into a Rovuma venture led by Malaysia's Petronas, while Shell lost out to Thailand's PTT in a $1.9-billion bid for Cove Energy, a partner of Anadarko in Mozambique. "I remember this us...
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Aluminium Billet Production set to climb at an annual compound annual growth rate of 4.4 per cent from 2010 to 2016 in Asia, Finds Frost & Sullivan
Explore PR Newswire (Jun 27 2012) Construction , Manufacturing & Automotive , Marketing & Advertising
...compound annual growth rate of 4.4 per cent from 2010 to 2016 in the selected countries of Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand and Malaysia. "Regional extruders import aluminium billets from China, India and the Middle East, ind... (Read Full Article)
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China top target as SA farmers look east
Explore Engineering News (Jun 25 2012)
...ruit export volumes into Europe. South Africa announced recently that it has started exporting fresh fruit to Thailand after 14 years of talks between the countries. To subscribe to Engineering News's print magazine emai... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Taiwan Asian European Union
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Ford laments fragile supply network
Explore Procurement Leaders Network (May 9 2012) Sourcing , Manufacturing & Automotive
...eral months. The growth experienced by Ford Motor Company is putting considerable strain on its suppliers in Thailand, leading to delays in shipments of certain vehicles to its Asian markets. The delays were most felt b...
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Commodity prices in 2012 will make or break procurement teams
Explore Procurement Leaders Network (May 2 2012) Sourcing , Value creation
...o the challenge that supply chain complexity presents. The earthquake and tsunami in Japan or the flooding in Thailand might be obvious examples of how physical events exposed both the vulnerability to risks that existed... (Read Full Article)
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Seagate ushers in new procurement chief
Explore Procurement Leaders Network (Apr 23 2012) Electronic & High Tech , People on the move
...nd materials organisation. Following the disruption caused to the hard-disk drive market by the flooding in Thailand, Seagate has been streamlining its global supply chain operations as well as transitioning its portfo...
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Buyers must invest in contingency planning before it's too late
Explore supplymanagement.com (Apr 19 2012) Risk Management , Sourcing
...el lines. “This explosion is the latest in a number of incidents such as the tsunami in Japan and flooding in Thailand to underline the importance of supply chain to businesses,” he said. “Risks to supply chains are defi... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Japan Thailand David Noble
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Supply chain disruption among ‘greatest risks businesses face’
Explore Procurement Leaders Network (Apr 19 2012) Risk Management
...ontrol procurement of all of their global and local insurance programmes. "The natural disasters in Japan and Thailand during 2011 caused widespread supply chain and business interruption failures for the automotive and ...
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Risk management a growing focus, say CPOs
Explore Procurement Leaders Network (Apr 10 2012) Risk Management , Leadership
...s fraught with major disruptive events, including the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan and the floods in Thailand. The results are the first from our newly launched Procurement Intentions Index, a longitudinal surve...
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Sony to axe 10 000 jobs globally
Explore fin24.com (Apr 9 2012) Supplier Diversity
...onics parts. Sony has blamed tough competition, falling prices, slow demand, the impact of severe flooding in Thailand last year, and the high yen for its weak balance sheet. Credit rating agencies Moody's and Standard &...
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Comment Mentions: Reuters European Union Japan
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Supply Risk Trends: The Underwriter Perspective (Part 2)
Explore Spend Matters (Apr 4 2012) Risk Management , Supplier Relationship Management , Manufacturing & Automotive
...cks and interdependencies, particularly across product lines and business units. For example, the flooding in Thailand last fall demonstrated the importance of ensuring supplier geographic dispersion, as the long recover... (Read Full Article)
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Japanese automakers rev up supply chain resiliency
Explore Procurement Leaders Network (Apr 4 2012) Manufacturing & Automotive , Transport & Logistics
...for production lines higher off the floor,” Nikkei noted. For a new factory Honda is planning to construct in Thailand by around 2015 it told Nikkei that it will spread out risk by constructing the plant in an area that ...
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Supply Risk Trends: The Underwriter Perspective (Part 1)
Explore Spend Matters (Apr 3 2012) Risk Management , Supplier Relationship Management , Manufacturing & Automotive
...n months. Conrad begins the story noting that "between the catastrophe in Japan and the devastating floods in Thailand just eight months later, 2011 proved to be a difficult year for multinational manufacturers and their... (Read Full Article)
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