Press Releases from Spire Research and Consulting (132 total)
Spire Client Entertainment Night May 2017
Spire Singapore hosted its first Client Entertainment Night of the year. Our business associates and partners joined us for a dinner reception followed by the…
Spire and YBC host breakfast seminar on smart use of market and industry researc …
On 4 May, Spire and Yamada Business Consulting (YBC) jointly held a breakfast seminar in Singapore to share ideas on how Small and Medium-sized Enterprises…
Spire briefs Anderson Junior College students on Halal product market trends
Spire Research and Consulting was honored to be invited as a speaker at Anderson Junior College in Singapore. Spire’s CEO Leon Perera spoke on entrepreneurial…
Spire engaged as Knowledge Partner for Global Summit on cryptocurrency in India
Spire Research and Consulting was honored to be appointed as the Official Knowledge Partner at the Global Summit on Bitcoin & Blockchain: The State of…
Spire chosen as Official Research Partner to the ALYA WTA Malaysian Open for six …
Spire was honored to be appointed as the Official Research Partner for the sixth consecutive year for the ALYA WTA Malaysian Open – an international…
Spire and YBC host breakfast seminar on the impact of demonetization in India
On 20 January, Spire and Yamada Business Consulting (YBC) jointly held a breakfast seminar in Singapore to explore the impact on India’s economy of the…
Prison ankle bracelets are all the rage in Brazil
With about 622,000 inmates, Brazil is home to Latin America’s largest and the world’s fourth largest prison population. Around 32,000 criminals sport one of the…
Cold coffee cannibalizing cold drinks
The price of coffee is set to reach a record high by 2018, which is why coffee shops are hoarding coffee beans to meet consumer…
London spearheads Europe’s largest infrastructure project
Flagged off in 2012, the London cross rail project aims to achieve better connectivity within the UK. Deemed to be Europe’s largest infrastructure overhaul, the…
Self-driven ships make a wave
By 2018 there will be fewer container trucks plying Norwegian roads, as Norwegian shipping company Yara is planning to launch unmanned ships to transport cargo…
Japan and EU revive trade deal
The Japan and the European Union (EU) have formally agreed on the outlines of a free trade deal. The two crucial sectors affected will be…
Fabric cutting technology to help nab criminals
Researchers at the University of Santa Cruz do Sul in Brazil and University of Technology Sydney have developed a stabbing machine to help forensic scientists…
India’s novel tea café industry
Quirky chai cafés in India like Chaayos are now replacing the dominance of Coffee shops like Starbucks, Barista and most notably Café Coffee Day. Established…
Cross-border e-commerce comes with safety risks
High volume online shopping makes it difficult for US regulators to keep track of overseas manufactured items, effectively putting customers at risk.
E-commerce has enabled popular…
Thailand bets on biodegradable plastic
Thailand has adopted new methods in material sciences, by making biodegradable plastic with sugarcane feedstock at an investment of USD100 million. Thailand’s vast reserves of…
African haircare industry surges ahead
The African hair care industry has been among the fastest growing across the content over the past few years. The market is expected to grow…
The advent of the internet in Cuba kick starts online start-ups
Internet access among Cuba’s 11.2 million people is growing. Between 2013 and 2015, the share of the Cuban population using the internet jumped from about…
WannaCry ransomware attack affects millions
The first ever global worm-based ransomware attack – WannaCry –crippled close to 150 countries in May 2017. Ransomware usually spreads via email, relying on human…
Blockchain technology set to hit retail sector
Blockchain is set to go beyond financial services and affect all sectors, especially retail. Blockchain enables a decentralized digital ledger to record information and transactions…
Virtual reality to replace medicinal painkillers
Virtual Reality (VR) technology may be a pathway to minimize chronic pain. The USA is facing its worst ever drug epidemic with more than 16,…
A room-sized 3D printer?
Torbjørn Ludvigsen is a Swedish inventor whose company – Replicating Rapid Prototyper (RepRap) – is busy raising funds to develop the Hangprinter. This suspended 3D…
No more check-out lines at stores
The future of retail seems to be here. E-commerce giant Amazon has launched Amazon Go – a new grocery store concept with no checkout process.…
Iran nurturing its wind energy sector
With the lifting of trade sanctions against Iran in July 2015, a surge in energy demand led to the development of the renewables sector.
SUNA –…
Spyware tracking under the radar
The U.S. has seen a massive growth in sales of “off-the-shelf” software to trace an individual’s every move based on the microwaves emitted by their…
Precious metal destroys cancer cells
University of Warwick researchers developed an organo-metal compound coded as FY26 to infiltrate cancer cells and activate cellular mitochondria to destroy cancer cells.
To date, FY26…
India’s first banking robot
Taking a cue from a Japanese bank – Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ – Indian banks plan to use robots with artificial intelligence. Kumbakonam-based City Union…
China’s ancient irrigation system under threat
One of China’s most recognized ancient oases – the Karez – is a construction marvel built by the Uyghur people. The water harvesting and underground…
Future of fresh in supermarkets
Can you imagine a life minus the hassle of chopping vegetables for cooking? A new concept of vegetable butchers in supermarkets in the U.S. is…
Internables – Next big thing in wearable technology?
As wearable technology grows, attention is shifting to internables. These are internal sensors in our bodies used to measure wellbeing. Internables may well become the…
Space-mining for platinum on the cards
Platinum mining in space is getting cheaper and easier. Prospect probes can probably be built for tens of millions of dollars each. An asteroid-grabbing spacecraft…
Skin pigments to strengthen sofas
Chinese researchers from Jiangnan University (in November 2016) made a recent break through by adding melanin in small quantities to polyurethane (a polymer), making the…
How will Brexit impact Asian markets?
Britain still attracts substantial investment from Asia. Many Asian firms have established European Head Quarters in the country. How hard will Brexit hit Asian markets?…
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