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Articles & Research
Articles contributed by IMS personnel or written about IMS, as
well as information on IMS market studies are featured in this
segment of our website. We welcome any feedback on these items
and, with permission, will post responses that provide insights
and depth to the issues cited.
IMS Newsletter
IMS Newsletter - Issue VI, December 2009
IMS Newsletter - Issue V, July 2009
IMS Newsletter - Issue IV, March 2009
IMS Newsletter - Issue III, December 2008
IMS Newsletter - Issue II, July 2008
IMS Newsletter - Issue I, February 2008
STOV News Blog
IMS announces the creation of a news-oriented blog focusing on the on-going development of
small, task-oriented vehicles (STOV). Information covers low-speed vehicles (LSVs), a wide
range of utility vehicles, and golf car derivatives--as well as technology developments in
batteries, electric motors, and new materials. The website address is
http://smallvehicles.wordpress.com.
Techtextil North America Symposium
Session 103.1 Protecting
Intellectual Property Globally,
by Darrel Collier, IMS Managing Director
Session 103.2 The
Importance of Relationships,
by Keith Crisco, President, Asheboro Elastics
Session 103.3 Invention,
Innovation, and New Product Development: Building Worldwide Partnerships
for Technical Textile Technologies,
by Dean Blanton Godfrey, NCSU College of Textiles
Session 103.4 Relevant
Trade Issues - A Changing Industry,
by Jim Leonard, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Textiles, Department
of Commerce
Session 103.5 Ready,
Fire, Aim: A No Nonsense Approach That Illustrates Some Major
Mistakes Mady by U.S. Exporters,
by Mary Lynn Landgraf, Senior International Trade Specialist,
U.S. Department of Commerce
Southern Textile News
In their January 21, 2008 edition, Southern Textile News named the Trade Expansion Conference
as the best company sponsored event of 2007.
Southern Textile News - January 21, 2008
Leadership and Selling Series in the Charlotte Observer
Sherry Sutton, IMS Associate and President of Think2Profit, recently
wrote a series on Leadership and is currently writing a series on
The Art of Selling for the Charlotte Observer.
You can't just sell the world like you do the nation, January 2008
Good leaders know when it's their time to dance, March 2007
IMS Small Vehicle Market Study
IMS (and its affiliate International Competitive Assessments)
recently published its third in a series of major market studies
on the small vehicle market in the United States. Entitled Golf
Car-Type Vehicles and the Emerging Market for Small, Task-Oriented
Vehicles in the United States; Trends 2000-2006, Forecasts to
2012, the study covers, with detailed data and analysis, the three
most prominent segments of the small vehicle market: golf cars
used on golf courses, privately-owned vehicles, and utility vehicles.
For further information on this study and an extensive table of
contents, click here.
Survey of Latin American Market
IMS Managing Director, Darrel Collier, has completed a major survey
of the Latin American market for specialized nonwovens. While
the study and client are proprietary, Mr. Collier is able to comment
that, “The potential for market expansion of textiles in
Latin America, particularly in the industrial and high performance
segments—both wovens and nonwovens, is pretty extraordinary.
Moreover, the potential for finished product applications moving
in both directions is considerable.”
With offices opening up in Mexico and Brazil IMS, along with its
internationally-experienced Managing Directors, IMS is in a strong
position to aid companies in their quest for new opportunities
abroad.
IMS Office in China
With the formation of IMS, LLC the TNC Global office in Shanghai
now becomes part of IMS. To read about activities of this office
in a recent story published in the International Fiber
Journal click
here.
New Mode of Transportation
The high price of gasoline, the avid search for alternative fuels,
and changing demographics point to a potentially new mainstream
means of automotive transportation: the low-speed electric vehicle.
In an article published in the May/June issue of the Industrial
Utility Vehicle and Mobile Equipment magazine, IMS Managing Director
analyzes the factors driving demand, the competitive industry
segments, and presents a futuristic view as to how current diverse
types of small vehicles will begin to merge toward a mainstream
market. To see the full article, click
here.
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