The National Retail Federation (NRF) predicts that U.S. Christmas-season retail sales will increase 4.1 percent year on year to approximately $619.9 million for the months of November and December 2014. The projected increase is higher ...
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Blue Nile is being challenged by rising diamond prices, forcing the online jeweler to seek out growth in other areas. As diamond prices rise, eroding Blue Nile’s competitive advantage that its lower online prices offer, consumers will ...
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Trident Limited, the flagship company of US$ 1 billion Indian business conglomerate—The Trident Group, has inaugurated the world’s largest terry towel plant and also laid the foundation stone of its Composite Textile project in ...
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Northwestern China's Shanxi province, the country's third largest coal production base, produced 50.42 million mt of raw coal in Augest, up 11.79% from a year ago, according to the Shanxi Administration of Coal Mine Safety. The August ...
For August, Taiwan's WIN Semiconductors Corp (the world's largest pure-play gallium arsenide foundry) has reported revenue of NT$1.04bn (US$34.5m) - its highest revenue in the past 12 months - up 7.41% on July and up 23.45% on a year ago. ...
Driven by over a 20% rise in wholesale sales, revenues ascended 15.9% year-on-year at UK-based SuperGroup Plc, which manages the Superdry fashion brand in its first fiscal quarter ended July 26, 2014. SuperGroup said that during the first ...
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American packaging company Sonoco has agreed to acquire Germany-based Weidenhammer Packaging for an amount of approximately $383m (€286m). Sonoco president and chief executive officer M Jack Sanders believes the acquisition will help ...
Citi Trends, a value-priced retailer of urban fashion apparel and accessories reduced its net loss by more than 50 percent from a year earlier in the second fiscal quarter ending August 2, 2014. In the second fiscal quarter of 2014, net ...
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Wesfarmers’ Officeworks has reported a record result for the 12 months to 30 June 2014. The business achieved total sales of $1.57 billion, up 4.7 per cent on the prior year. Earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) of $103 million, ...
Turkey's leading steel pipe producer Borusan Mannesmann Boru has announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half this year, posting a net profit of TRY 18.2 million ($8.4 million) in the second quarter, rising from ...
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Carpetright plc has announced an update on trading for the 13 weeks ending 26th July 2014. Like-for-like sales in the UK increased by 6.1%, while total sales increased by 5.2%. During the period, four stores were opened and nine closed. ...
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Furniture was the best-performing product category in July, reporting its highest growth since January (excluding Easter distortions), according to the latest BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor. Although GfK’s Climate for Major Purchase ...
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Improved performance in Bayer AG’s Life Science business helped its profit jump 14 percent in the second quarter. On Wednesday, the Germany-based company reported a net profit of 953 million euros ($1.28 billion) in the quarter, ...
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Manchester United has reached a ten year agreement with Adidas for a global technical sponsorship and dual branded licensing deal for a minimum guarantee of 50 million, subject to certain adjustments, beginning with the 2015/2016 campaign. ...
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Aluminum electrolyticA polarized capacitor exhibiting a very high capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and dielectrics which permits the storage of electricity when potential difference exists between the conductors. Its value ...
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