The Children's Place Retail Stores, Inc., the largest pure-play children's specialty apparel retailer in North America, announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal 2013 periods ended February 1, 2014. Fourth Quarter ...
Tags: Apparel, specialty apparel
Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. released its third-quarter 2013 results on February 28. Despite a $168,000 loss attributable to the company, Cooper will report positive net income for the fourth quarter, according to Chairman, CEO and President ...
Tags: Tire, Cooper Tire&Rubber
J. C. Penney Company, Inc. announced financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full year ended Feb. 1, 2014. For the fourth quarter, JCPenney reported net sales of $3.78 billion compared to $3.88 billion in the fourth quarter ...
Tags: JCPenney, Apparel, Gross Margins
Online retailing has been one of the biggest buzz words in the retailing landscape in recent years, with major players and smaller retailers alike investing in new infrastructure and updating their online presence in an attempt to secure ...
Tags: Increasing logistic costs, Pressure on service levels, inventory
It looks like the U.S. government is more conflicted about cellphones on planes than most American travelers. Even as one federal agency considers allowing the calls, another now wants to make sure that doesn't happen. ...
Tags: Transportation regulates, use cellphones, personal electronic devices
Russia's largest oil producer, Rosneft, and petrochemical company Sibur Friday reached an agreement under which the oil producer will sell its 49% stake in a gas processing joint venture to Sibur and guarantee supply of up to 10 billion ...
Tags: Rosneft, Gas, oil producer
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has started an anti-dumping investigation of China- and Taiwan-based solar players and is expected to announce preliminary anti-dumping tariffs in June. Taiwan-based solar cell makers can tolerate tariffs ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Anti-Dumping Tax
Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) has strongly opposed the proposed increase in sales tax and changes in tax regime as this will negatively impact the textile exports and would cause to further squeeze the industrial activities. ...
Xylem has won a contract valued at approximately $2.75 million to supply Xylem's Wedeco-brand ultraviolet (UV) technologies to a wastewater treatment facility in the Vigo region of southwest Spain. With a treatment capacity of 147,000 ...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,Ltd.(MHI)has been selected by Corporate Knights Inc.among this year's"Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World,"commonly referred to as"the Global 100."Corporate Knights is a media and investment ...
Tags: Mhi, Sustainable Corporations, Mitsubishi
Parents who spank their children believe it's an effective form of discipline. But decades of research studies have found that spanking is linked to short- and long-term child behavior problems. Is there any way to get parents to change ...
Tags: child behavior, George Holden, co-authors, SMU
Spot market prices for polysilicon have risen to US$20/kg currently and some China-based makers, in view of strong demand in the China market, plan to further hike quotes by 10% to US$22/kg after the Lunar New Year (January 31), according ...
Tags: China polysilicon, Strong demand
In Q4 Unipetrol Group posted operational profit EBITDA LIFO of CZK 252m. Due to lower petrochemical and refinery production sales, as well as refining margins, revenues of the Company decreased by 5% y/y and in Q4 amounted at CZK 25.070 bn. ...
Tags: Unipetrol Group, Textile
Australia's mid-market businesses are experiencing a sharp increase in confidence and renewed optimism around future performance, according to the Commonwealth Bank Future Business Index. The index reveals confidence reached the highest ...
Tags: Service
Robotics address the need for speed for product placement into packaging. Bosch Packaging TechnologyEnergy and raw materials are becoming more expensive, and consumers want to do more for the environment. This is forcing manufacturers of ...
Tags: Robotics, environment, innovations