Illinois River Energy’s favorable cost structure, yields, profitability and management of supply chain and commodities combine to guarantee that the company won’t be going away anytime soon, Pam Derringer learns.

Rob Harris investigates how MFC Group is using new innovations in automation, cellular manufacturingand lean manufacturing to increase market share and customer satisfaction.

David Hendricks dons his cleanest overalls to talk to the EVP of Bee-Clean Building Maintenance, a contract cleaner that provides cleaning services to a wide range of clients across Canada.

Kennecott Eagle Minerals has been feeling its way through the tough new mining law and regulations enacted in the State of Michigan in 2004. General manager Jon Cherry talks to Gay Sutton about the challenges of the process and why the new law will benefit the mining community.

San Francisco is the home of construction makeovers, and one contractor in particular, GCI General Contractors, has taken it to a fine art, as Alan Swaby learns.

Anyone familiar with the geography of San Francisco will know that with water on three sides, there is precious little opportunity for new buildings to be erected. As such, the construction industry in the city itself is focused on renovation and refurbishment.

The Boeing Company is restructuring its Boeing Military Aircraft (BMA) business from 1 October, involving a consolidation from six divisions to four. Boeing’s military division makes the well-known Chinook transport helicopters, as well as the C-17 transport and F/A-18 fighter-bomber.

UK mobile phone giant Vodafone, the world's biggest mobile operator by revenue, has announced the sale of its 3.2 per cent stake in China Mobile for around £4.3 billion.

The sale is the first of what is expected to be several sales of minority holdings as part of Newbury-based Vodafone’s strategy to focus on core markets as it tries to improve its share price.

The buyers of the stake, of which it is thought there may be several, have not been identified.

The global market for industrial & institutional cleaning products is forecast to exceed $36.7 billion by the year 2015, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

After being hit by the recession in 2008 and 2009, the report suggest that the I&I cleaning products market is poised to gain momentum and register healthy growth over the coming years.

Royal Dutch Shell is in exclusive talks with the Finnish fuel distributor St1 to sell the oil major's Swedish refinery, it has been announced.

The Gothenburg refinery has simple-to-medium complexity, allowing it to process low-sulphur light crude from the North Sea; but not high-sulphur crude.

With a processing capacity of about 78,000 barrels of crude oil per day, the refinery supplies the domestic market with specialist fuels, such as diesel that does not freeze in the cold Scandinavian climate.

10. The first Labor Day

America's first Labor Day parade took place in New York City on 5 September 1882, organized by the Central Labor Union.

After marching from City Hall, past reviewing stands in Union Square, and then uptown to 42nd Street, the workers and their families gathered in Wendel's Elm Park for a picnic, concert, and speeches.