According to the data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global direct reduced iron (DRI) production in the 14 countries accounting for approximately 87 percent of total world DRI production in 2013 amounted to 5.08 ...
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Thermal and coking coal exports from Australia's Newcastle port fell 12.5% on the week to 2.64 million mt in the week to Sunday, after four weeks of gains, according to the Newcastle Port Corporation's latest update. NPC said there were ...
Cable said the recycler was an example of companies that are stimulating demand, generating jobs and building the infrastructure for the long term development of the green economy. Closed Loop claims to be the first recycler in the world ...
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How much of Walmart's revenue comes from its shoppers' food stamps? The store isn't required to say. But a January Court of Appeals ruling could change that. If the unanimous decision by the Eighth Circuit's panel of three judges holds, the ...
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Launched in 2004, Thai Taste consists of over fifty products, all exclusively made in Thailand from fresh, locally sourced ingredients. The new packaging formats have helped reduce the amount of packaging by 69% to enhance the brand's ...
World cotton trade is forecast at 39.6 million bales for 2013/14, 15 percent below the previous season. Over the last 2 years, imports by China have driven the trade as China imported more than 20 million bales in both the 2011 and 2012 ...
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Knowles Corporation KN +2.23% , a market leader and global supplier of advanced micro-acoustic solutions and specialty components, today updated projections that were originally provided at the Company’s analyst day on February 19, ...
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Falling hardware sales and the cost of layoffs hit IBM's profit hard in the first quarter, sending it down 21 percent from a year earlier.? Sales also fell, sliding 4 percent from last year's first quarter to US$22.5 billion. The ...
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The fourth quarter of 2013 showed signs of improvement in small business loans. For the first time in 15 consecutive quarters, both the value and volume of small business loans increased simultane-ously 0.4 percent and 1.1 percent ...
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Soybean futures topped out Tuesday above $15/bushel for the first time in quite a while on news that there's a lot of demand for both the oilseed and its oil. The National Oilseed Processors Association (NOPA) announced Tuesday soybean ...
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Communisis provides brand-building services to P&G including managing point-of-purchase store merchandising and direct-to-consumer marketing. The managed services provider has seen a huge jump in overseas sales in recent years, now ...
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Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes rose one point to 47 in April from a downwardly revised March reading of 46 on the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). ...
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The Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack reported a net loss of $3.3 million on net sales of $495.7 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013 ended Feb. 2, 2014. In the year-ago quarter, the company reported a net loss of $14.5 million and net ...
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Strong market fundamentals lead to 30 per cent rise in investment sales volumes. Investment activity has surged to produce a $1 billion result in the first half of 2014, up from $661 million recorded in second half of 2013, according to ...
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Aimed at the tourist gift market, the new range was produced using Smurfit Kappa's T Flute micro flute. The packs consist of a fleet of 3 Grandma Wilds Campervans, packed full of clotted cream fudge, bitesize chocolate chip or bitesize ...