Apple's U.S. retail Mac sales were up for the first month of the quarter, but not to the extent recently claimed by a Wall Street analyst, the NPD Group said today. Earlier this week, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, citing NPD data, ...
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Despite an extraordinary 47-year run for the Toyota Corolla, you’d be hard pressed to find anybody who would laud the ubiquitous small car as ever being a standout looker in its segment. Well, all that has finally changed in a ...
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Acquisitions and growth in markets outside the EU have helped dairy giant Arla Foods report higher annual sales and profits. The company said today (20 February) its consolidated net profit jumped by more than a third in 2012 to DKK1.9bn ...
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There is a significant pattern in what women wear to bed and where they live, with Debenhams sales figures showing the further south you go the skimpier the night attire. It seems that ladies in the capital are the least covered up, with ...
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Cresset, a provider of computational chemistry software and consulting services, has announced excellent 2012 sales figures and growth. Dr Robert Scoffin, CEO of Cresset, says, “We are delighted to announce robust growth through ...
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BlackBerry says launch sales of its new BlackBerry 10 handsets in Canada and the U.K. have beaten previous company records, but it isn't releasing actual sales figures. "In Canada, yesterday was the best day ever for the first day of a ...
Sulzer achieved order intake and sales of over CHF 4 billion in 2012. Profitability remained stable in the double-digit range. The company continued to focus on customer partnership and profitable growth. Driven by the major pump ...
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BlackBerry said this week that launch sales of its new BlackBerry 10-based handsets in Canada and the U.K. have beaten previous company records. However, the company formerly known as Research In Motion has declined to release actual ...
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The Australian dollar gained after rises on US sharemarkets helped the currency rebound from an earlier sell-off. At 7am AEDT the currency was trading at 104.12 US cents, up from 104.06 US cents at yesterday’s local close. BK ...
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The Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon both hit record sales lows in a torrid January for Australian-built cars. Industry sales figures released in the same week the new VF Commodore is unveiled reveal Holden’s large car slumped to ...
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Volkswagen Group considered setting the growth target for 2022 and updated the ten million sales’ target for 2018. Bernd Osterloh, Volkswagen’s Chairman of the Union, said that because Volkswagen car sales grew fast, it may ...
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The “unbreakable” ute the Toyota HiLux, has notched up 750,000 sales in Australia, according to the latest sales figures. Toyota's executive director sales and marketing Matthew Callachor said the 750,000 milestone was achieved ...
Microsoft's quarterly figures came in today pretty much as analysts had expected, with earnings of $6.4bn (£4bn), down from $6.4bn in the previous year, and revenues of $21.46bn (£13.6bn), a three per cent increase year on year, ...
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According to the British Retail Consortium footfall in December was 1.2 per cent lower than in 2011, despite seeing a 0.4 per cent rise last November. The UK’s worst-hit locations this December were the North & Yorkshire, down ...
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The Australian dollar has closed flat after a quiet domestic session, with investors focused on the upcoming release of local and overseas economic data. At 5pm AEDT today, the local currency was at 105.53 US cents, little changed from ...
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