Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced its operational results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2013. Accordingly, Severstal's crude steel production in the fourth quarter decreased by seven percent to 3.78 million mt, while its ...
Tags: Steel Product, Mineral
Coach, Inc., a leading New York design house of modern luxury accessories, announced sales of $1.42 billion for its second fiscal quarter ended December 28, 2013, compared with $1.50 billion reported in the same period of the prior year, a ...
Severe winter weather did not dampen December retail sales as shoppers took advantage of heavy promotions and last-minute deals. According to the National Retail Federation – the world’s largest retail trade association ...
Tags: Holiday Retail, Jack Kleinhenz, NRF, more-confident consumer
Wal-Mart Corp. Retail sales grew 0.2% in December, the Commerce Department reported Jan. 14. The expansion followed a 0.4% increase in November that was smaller than previously reported. On average, analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News ...
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Analysts at both Gartner and IDC reported the seventh straight quarter of declining PC shipments, although both firms saw a light at the end of the tunnel. Of the top PC vendors, Lenovo widened its lead over HP and Dell on a worldwide ...
Tags: PC, replacement
A new all-time record for AUDI AG: In 2013, the company sold around 1,575,500 automobiles worldwide, 8.3 percent more than in 2012. The premium manufacturer's sales thus increased by more than 100,000 units for the fourth consecutive ...
Tags: Audi, export markets
German software giant SAP said on Friday that cloud-computing boosted sales and earnings in the fourth quarter of 2013 and the year as a whole. Cloud computing is a term used to cover many functions of external and shared resources to ...
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RPM International Inc. today reported record sales, net income and diluted earnings per share for its fiscal 2014 second quarter ended November 30, 2013, driven by volume increases in both its industrial and consumer segments and improved ...
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John Lewis publishes its five-week trading update, revealing that the retailer saw both bricks and clicks break records. For the five weeks to 28 December 2013, total sales were £734m, 7.2 per cent up compared with last year, 6.9 ...
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According to the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark, fourth quarter online sales were up 10.3 percent year over year. For the period from 10/1/13 through 12/31/13, key drivers were: Mobile Traffic and Sales: Mobile traffic soared, ...
By Jonathan S. Reiskin, Associate News Editor Orders for heavy-duty North American trucks grew in nine of the first 10 months of the year, as industry watchers wondered when the mild slump in U.S. truck sales would end. Finally, in ...
Tags: heavy-duty North American trucks, U.S.truck sales, New-truck production
Apple says it has reached a deal to bring the iPhone to China Mobile, the world's biggest phone carrier. The deal gives Apple a bigger entry into the huge Chinese market and China Mobile's estimated 760 million subscribers. The network is ...
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General Mills reported results for the second quarter of fiscal 2014. The 13-week period ending Nov. 24, 2013 did not include Thanksgiving, while last year's second-quarter results included the holiday. Fiscal 2014 Second Quarter ...
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UK-based 2 Sisters Food Group has posted an operating profit of £25.5m ($41.6m) for the 13 weeks ended 26 October 2013 (Q1 2013/14), compared to £30.5m for the same period last year. Total like-for-like (LFL) sales increased ...
Tags: 2 Sisters Food, chilled foods
The Japanese apparel market has seen significant growth in sales during the fiscal year of 2012 and is set for an era of development and relative stability, according to a recent report by JapanConsuming. According to the report on ...
Tags: Apparel