Both imported and domestically produced LPG prices drifted lower in South and East China this week, mainly weighed down by the bearish market outlook, trade sources said Friday. Asian LPG prices slid to near 28-month lows Thursday, ...
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Amer Sports reported net sales of €645.8 million ($856 mm) for the quarter ended Sept. 30, up 6.1 percent compared with €608.9 million a year earlier. Net sales increased by 6.0 percent in currency-nuetral terms. The Finnish ...
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China’s National Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday the country’s gross domestic product rose 7.3% on the year for three months through September, the slowest growth since the first quarter of 2009. Inflation-adjusted economic ...
VF Corp. said The Timberland, Vans, The North Face, Kipling and Wrangler brands drove a 7 percent increase in revenues and an 11 percent increase in earnings per share in the third quarter ended Sept. 27, 2014. All per share amounts are ...
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As December declined 38 points to close at 63.56 cents/lb, while March shed 56 points to close at 61.71 cents/lb, New York cotton futures moved slightly lower this week. Another round of severe weather in the Delta and Southeast ...
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Demand for LED lighting products for the fourth quarter will be weak as LED lighting vendors took deliveries in the second and third quarters for products to be launched in the fourth, and some will adjust inventories through the end of the ...
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According to a report from the Metals Service Center Institute, US service center steel shipments in September 2014 increased by 8.3 percent from September 2013. Steel product inventories increased 16.4 percent from September a year ago. At ...
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In the January-August period of this year, Japan's cold rolled sheet and strip shipments decreased by 3.9 percent on year-on-year basis to 4.23 million metric tons, according to the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF) data. 81 percent of ...
The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, rose 0.6 percent in August from July, rising for the second consecutive month, according to the US ...
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Packaging company PPi technologies has invested $5.4m on a new 100,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Sarasota. The new plant will help the company tackle the increase in demand for filling pouches. The facility demonstrates machines ...
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Driven by acquisition of Jos. A. Bank and also rise in retail segment sales, clothing marketer Men's Wearhouse said it reported a 24% revenue hike in the second quarter ended August 2, 2014. Total net sales increased 24.1% or $155.8 ...
Red ink was splashed across all financial parameters, including revenue and net loss at womenswear apparel retailer The Wet Seal in the fiscal second quarter ended August 2, 2014. The Net sales were down 11.2% to $121.2 million in the ...
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A monthly benchmark that gauges purchasing professionals' views on procurement activity in the electronic components marketplace. A reading below 100 indicates pessimism; a reading above 100 indicates optimism. After slowing in July, the ...
NYSE-listed apparel retailer, Oxford Industries, Inc. reported rise in net sales of 5% to reach $246.2 million in second fiscal quarter ended August 2, 2014, compared to $235.0 million in the second fiscal quarter of 2013. On an adjusted ...
Adjusted EBITDA zoomed 23.8% year-on-year at off-price retailer of high-quality branded apparel and NYSE-listed Burlington Stores, Inc. in the second quarter ended August 2, 2014. Burlington Stores said its adjusted EBITDA increased 23.8% ...
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