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Furniture Retail Sales Buoy Slower February

Mar 13, 2016

Furniture was again the top-performing category and the main contributor to retail growth in February, according to the latest BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor. After hitting a record of +16 in January, GfK’s Major Purchase Index ...

Tags: Furniture, retail sales

LEGO Sees 19 Per Cent Revenue Growth in 2015

Mar 13, 2016

"Across the year, we estimate that 100 million children had a LEGO experience." The LEGO Group has revealed that revenue growth in 2015, excluding foreign exchange impacts, was 19 per cent year over year on a local currency basis. ...

Tags: LEGO Group, Toys

McDonald's Introduces Vr Headsets to Happy Meal Boxes in Sweden

Mar 13, 2016

The Google Cardboard-like goggles will be able to be assembled from the Happy Meal packaging, allowing kids or parents to place a mobile phone within to experience VR. Virtual Reality is continuing its play for the toy space as McDonald's ...

Tags: McDonald's, Meal Boxes

LEGO Dimensions Performing Incredibly Well with Toy Retailers

Mar 13, 2016

As part of the whole toys-to-life UK market in Q4 2015, the video game had 52.8 per cent value share. LEGO Dimensions has been performing better than expected in toy retailers big and small, Warner Bros has told ToyNews. The game, which ...

Tags: Toy Retailers, LEGO Dimensions

Everlight Boosts 5630 High-Efficiency LED Series to 210-220lm/W

Mar 13, 2016

Taiwan-based Everlight Electronics Co Ltd has launched a version of its low-mid-power 5630 package series that attains what is claimed to be record luminous efficiency of 210-220lm/W (at a color temperature of 5000K), as well as a tight ...

Tags: Everlight LEDs, LED designs

EVG's Executive Technology Director Paul Lindner Receives European Semi Award

Mar 13, 2016

At the SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium Europe 2016 conference in Nice, France (6–8 March), Paul Lindner, executive technology director at EV Group of St Florian, Austria (a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for ...

Tags: EV Group, Engineered substrates

LG Innotek Using Aixtron Aix G5 WW System to Develop SiC Epiwafers

Mar 13, 2016

Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that Seoul-based LG Innotek (a subsidiary of South Korean electronics company LG Group) has selected an AIX G5 WW (Warm-Wall) reactor for the development of ...

Tags: SiC Epiwafers, Aix G5 WW System

Custom MMIC Launches 2-9GHz GaAs Driver Amplifier

Mar 13, 2016

Monolithic microwave integrated circuit developer Custom MMIC of Westford, MA, USA has added to its growing line of products with the CMD232, a 2-9GHz gallium arsenide (GaAs) MMIC driver amplifier that offers high gain, wide bandwidth, ...

Tags: Driver Amplifier, Custom MMIC

Monocrystal Showcasing First 300kg Ky Sapphire Crystal at Semicon China

Mar 13, 2016

In booth #2321 at SEMICON China 2016 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (15-17 March), Monocrystal Inc of Stavropol, Russia (which manufactures large-diameter sapphire substrates and cores for LED, optical product and RFIC ...

Tags: Monocrystal, Sapphire substrates, LEDs

CREE Boosts Output of XLAMP XP LEDs by 9%

Mar 13, 2016

LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA says that, by leveraging key elements of its SC5 Technology Platform, its high-power XLamp XP-L and XP-G2 LEDs now provide up to 9% more lumens and lumens-per-watt (LPW) than ...

Tags: Cree LEDs, XP-L LED

GaN and SiC Power Semiconductor Market to Surpass $1bn in 2020 Then $3.7bn in 2025

Mar 13, 2016

Energized by demand from hybrid and electric vehicles, power supplies and photovoltaic (PV) inverters, the emerging global market for silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors will rise from just $210m in 2015 to ...

Tags: Semiconductor Market, GaN, SiC

Tiger Optics Launches Analyser for Detection of Moisture in Ammonia Down to 2ppb

Mar 13, 2016

At the Pittcon conference in Atlanta (6-10 March), laser-based trace gas analyzer manufacturer Tiger Optics LLC of Warrington, PA, USA exhibited the new ALOHA+ H2O analyzer, which refines the detection of moisture in ammonia to levels down ...

Tags: Tiger Optics, Analyser, HB LED

Murray Goulburn Not Immune to Low Dairy Prices

Mar 13, 2016

Murray Goulburn says it is feeling the impact of a troubled dairy industry, revealing a slump in net profit to shareholders. The dairy company, which owns the Devondale brand, announced a net profit of only AUD$10 million for the six ...

Tags: low milk prices, Murray Goulburn

Parliamentary Committee Pushes for Cooked Seafood Declaration

Mar 13, 2016

A report released by the Australian Parliament’s joint standing committee on Northern Australia last week is recommending that all food-service industry providers be forced to declare the country of origin (CoOL) of seafood served. ...

Tags: Cooked Seafood, Parliamentary Committee

Cheese Markets Changing, But Bega Still Shows Good Results

Mar 13, 2016

A higher proportion of Australians living in rural and regional parts of the country are more likely to purchase cheese than consumers living in the bigger Australian cities says a new report from Roy Morgan Research. In the 12 months to ...

Tags: Cheese, Cheese-buying habits

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