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Allan Leibowitz

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Inside the News - 21 Feb 2013 (#604) If size matters, the latest ranking of the world's largest forklift manufacturers makes for interesting reading. All the usual suspects are, of course, represented. Among the top 10, we see...

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Inside the News - 14 Feb 2013 (#603) Our Chinese readers are this week celebrating the start of a new year, the Year of the Snake. According to one of the many Near Year's greetings we received, this...

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Inside the News - 7 Feb 2013 (#602) Everyone is talking about Twitter, but no-one seems sure what impact it is having, especially in the business environment. Forkliftaction.com jumped on the Twittersphere last year and we recently added...

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Allan Leibowitz

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Inside the News - 31 Jan 2013 (#601) It's been a trying few weeks globally, with freak weather impacting on communities in both hemispheres. While Europe and North America cope with snow storms and unusually low temperatures, Australia...

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Inside the News - 24 Jan 2013 (#600) There are some numbers that have mystique about them: 100, a thousand, 10,000, etc. Alas, the number 600 is not so steeped in glamour. A recent New York Times article...

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Allan Leibowitz

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Inside the News - 17 Jan 2013 (#599) What's in a name? That's probably what some people will ask when they read about MHI, formerly the Material Handling Industry of America, changing its name to its acronym. Of...

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Allan Leibowitz

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Inside the News - 10 Jan 2013 (#598) As the new year gets under way, some of the world's leading economists have just wrapped up the annual American Economic Association conference in San Diego, a meeting dominated by...

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Inside the News - 3 Jan 2013 (#597) There seems to be plenty of optimism around as we start a new year and it's not hard to see why. For many, 2012 was a year they'd rather forget...

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Allan Leibowitz

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Inside the News - 20 Dec 2012 (#596) The Forkliftaction.com team will take a well-earned break over the next couple of weeks and we'd like to thank all our readers and advertisers for their support over the past...

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Inside the News - 13 Dec 2012 (#595) There are some home truths about forklift safety in Danny Maron's Safety First column this week. Most importantly, safety training is not just academic. Everyone needs to remember that there...

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