Asian Paints Ltd. has announced its financial results for the quarter and nine months ended December 31, 2014. “We registered single-digit volume growth in the decorative paint segment in India due to sluggish demand conditions," ...
Chinese electric auto maker BYD is planning to introduce plug-in hybrid SUVs in 2015 to meet demand for larger vehicles. The company has already started taking orders for 300,000-yuan ($48,000) Tang SUV, a plug-in vehicle and it is also ...
Tags: Tang SUV, plug-in SUV models, Auto
The Lighting Industry Association (LIA) has been working closely with the Green Construction Board and British Retail Consortium (BRC) to develop a campaign aimed at encouraging independent and small- to medium-sized retailers to switch to ...
Each month, North Coast Research surveys a large sample of paint retailers throughout the U.S. to get a sense for current business trends. Please note that of the three primary architectural coatings channels (paint stores, home centers ...
Tags: Coatings Industry, paint stores, home centers, Construction
Despite a projected 5.4 percent increase in global semiconductor revenue in 2015, this is down from 7.9 percent growth in 2014, according to Gartner Inc. The forecast is also down from the previous quarter’s forecast of 5.8 percent ...
Tags: LED lighting, Electrical
The Kickstarter board game hit combines principles of professional cycling with strategy, and the UK's love for the sport makes the market very appealing for its inventors. The growing interest in cycling in the UK is making the market ...
Tags: Cycling Game, Toys
Vail Resorts reported season-to-date total lift ticket revenue at the company's nine mountain resorts, including an allocated portion of season pass revenue for each applicable period, was up 9.3 percent compared to the prior year ...
Tags: ski areas, Sporting Goods
The Canadian toy company has embarked on a successful journey with Latham Gaines, inventor of Nitro Grinders. Canadian toy company Tech 4 Kids has revealed that some of its “very biggest and most important projects” are coming ...
Tags: toy businesses, Toys
China's annual economic growth likely slowed to 7.2 percent in the fourth quarter, the weakest since the depths of the global crisis, a Reuters poll showed, which would keep pressure on policymakers to head off a sharper slowdown this year. ...
Tags: economic growth, GDP data
Revenues for the third quarter ended September 30, 2014 at Zuoan Fashion Limited, a leading Chinese fashion casual menswear company, dived 20.9 per cent year on year. Zuoan said its sales in the third quarter of 2014 amounted to RMB 301.1 ...
Tags: advertising expenses, Apparel
China's consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, is estimated to grow by about 1.4 percent in December from a year earlier, the latest report from the Bank of Communications (BOC) said. The National Bureau of Statistics ...
Tags: CPI, consumer price
China's economy is likely to expand at a slower pace of 7 percent in 2015 and 7.3 percent this year, a government think tank said in a report on Monday. Due to factors such as overcapacity in some manufacturing industries, the country's GDP ...
Tags: China Economy, home price
In 2014, the much-lauded Mediterranean diet continued to receive attention from nutrition researchers all over the world, with studies continuing to find a wide range of benefits associated with the diet. The latest study, which ...
Tags: blood pressure, HDL-cholesterol, Agriculture
U.S. jewelry and watch sales across all channels rose a preliminary 1.4 percent year on year in November, the month that marks the beginning of the Christmas-shopping season. While the increase was disappointing, compared with the ...
Fonterra, New Zealand's dairy co-operative, has reduced the price it expects to pay farmers for milk, in response to the declining dairy prices in the international market. The price has been reduced to also deal with the glut in ...
Tags: Dairy, milk, Agriculture