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Allan Leibowitz

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Inside the News - 27 May 2010 (#463) With enormous volatility in the global financial markets, it is encouraging to see some stability in one of the largest forklift markets - China. As we read in this week's special...

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Allan Leibowitz

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Inside the News - 20 May 2010 (#462) It's another week of acquisitions, mergers and large orders. Unfortunately, there's sometimes such a delay between this activity and the communication of the developments to the market that we may...

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Inside the News - 13 May 2010 (#461) After a week of bad news, it's refreshing to hear the International Monetary Fund declaring that a recovery is under way in Europe. Of course, the good news was tempered...

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Inside the News - 6 May 2010 (#460) One of the interesting facets of the industry's diversity is the different recovery stages we're witnessing. As we saw in last week's special report on the used forklift market, sales...

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Allan Leibowitz

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Inside the News - 29 Apr 2010 (#459) Last week's European airline shutdown didn't stop Irish manufacturer Combilift from its international launch of two new products. Undaunted by the air traffic woes, the company pushed on with this...

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Allan Leibowitz

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Inside the News - 22 Apr 2010 (#458) When we spoke about the calm before the storm last week, we had no idea about the volcanic cloud which was about to change the world in the days that...

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Inside the News - 15 Apr 2010 (#457) It could be the lull before the storm. Things seem particularly quiet in the industry at the moment, with even the attention-hungry "big boys" noticeably subdued. It could be that...

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Allan Leibowitz

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Inside the News - 8 Apr 2010 (#456) There's no doubt that email is here to stay. And, according to a new survey in the US, it continues to grow as an advertising medium. Datran Media found that...

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Inside the News - 1 Apr 2010 (#455) Safety First columnist Rob Vetter got it quite right this week when he defined success in the new decade in terms of coming to grips with change. If we've learned...

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Inside the News - 25 Mar 2010 (#454) The pallet, like the forklift, has become a cornerstone of materials handling and the combination of the two has provided efficiencies not possible using any other options. But as we...

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