Nestle SA will offer cocoa farmers and their families in the Ivory Coast cash incentives that aim to reduce child labor, as the chocolate industry faces growing scrutiny over the problem.
As we embark on a new year, it’s the perfect time to evaluate operations and consider applying new solutions to old (and future) supply chain issues, especially when it comes to the shipping and handling of dangerous goods.
Raucous protests in Canada’s capital continued Sunday over trucker vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 health restrictions, but the crowd thinned from its height a day earlier after drawing military and political rebukes for poor behavior.
Per Hong, partner with Kearney, assesses the impact to date of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, and speculates on how the current crisis will change global supply chains forever.
The parties involved in the controversy over 5G technology for broadband cellular networks are like tectonic plates moving inexorably toward one another.
The House of Representatives unveiled its legislation to bolster U.S. research and development to better compete with China and aid the domestic semiconductor industry, in a bid to negotiate a final bill this year with the Senate.
As of mid-December, 61.4% of Americans were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 — a rate that disease experts say is inadequate to eradicate the virus. But it’s far better than the shockingly low numbers of some developing countries, where vaccination rates are still in the single digits.
If you’ve attempted to purchase an at-home COVID-19 test recently, you may have walked away from the store empty-handed. There’s been a nationwide shortage of at-home tests that hit at nearly the same time as the Omicron variant began to peak in almost every state.