July - September 2013: -Consolidated revenue was EUR 454.4 million (EUR 485.1 million), down 4.6 per cent excluding terminated franchising operations. -Operating profit was EUR 10.7 million (EUR 17.1 million). January - September 2013: ...
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The 11th edition of the AFGC CHEP Retail Index suggests that retailers may be in for a challenging trading period this Christmas, with year-on-year growth in retail sales slowing and a turn-around not expected in the remaining months of ...
Tags: Service, Retailers Transport, logistics
Reacting to the Second Quarter Review of Monetary Policy Statement 2013-14, Dr A Sakthivel, Chairman AEPC, stated that, “The synergistic efforts of all the stakeholders including Govt. has resulted in the average export growth of ...
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Welspun India Ltd., (WIL), part of the $ 3.5 billion Welspun Group announced Q2 FY14 results, showing strong growth in revenue and operating profit in comparison to the corresponding period last year. Consolidated Financial Highlights ...
Tags: Welspun India, Textile
Booming diesel-fuel use in Europe and Latin America is paying off for U.S. drivers, as gasoline prices fall to a nine-month low. October supplies of gasoline are at a three-year high for that month, but refiners are still running at high ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, diesel-fuel
SABMiller plc today provides an update on trading during the six months ended 30 September 2013. The calculation of the organic growth rates excludes the impact of acquisitions and disposals on net producer revenue and volumes. Alan ...
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ACT Research president Kenneth Vieth may have summed up the US economic forecast best at ATA's All Eyes on the Economy session when he said "We came through the Great Recession and we are now in the Great Okay." Vieth was referring to ...
Tags: Transportation, trucking
The bike industry likely will never tally all the delays and extra costs that resulted from the federal government shutdown that ended Thursday. Many shops lost sales as local federal workers were out of work, and many businesses dependent ...
Tags: bike, Transportation
Despite all the negativity on the news, and the uncertainty involving the US debt ceiling, most trends are pointing to a steadily growing economy that bodes well for trucking's future. That was the synopsis from leading economists and ...
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U.S. crude-oil futures settled 1% lower Friday after the International Energy Agency warned that the U.S. fiscal crisis could harm demand and said supplies are rising faster than previously thought. Light, sweet crude oil for November ...
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Investment in equipment and software is expected to grow 3.3% in 2013, according to the Q4 update to the 2013 Equipment Leasing & Finance U.S. Economic Outlook released by the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation. Equipment and software ...
According to the monthly consumer tendency survey released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the consumer confidence index* in Turkey, which stood at 77.2 points in August, decreased by 6.6 percent month on month in September to ...
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NRF expects sales in the months of November and December to marginally increase 3.9 percent to $602.1 billion, over 2012’s actual 3.5 percent holiday season sales growth. The forecast is higher than the 10-year average holiday sales ...
Tags: Holiday Season, Apparel
After six consecutive quarters of decline, GDP in the Eurozone increased by 0.3% in Q2 2013. Economic activity is projected to expand further over the forecast horizon (+0.1% in Q3, +0.3% in Q4 2013 and +0.4% in Q1 2014) mainly on the back ...
Official retail figures, released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), confirm that a tentative recovery is continuing to build. Excluding fuel, the ONS numbers show the total value of sales growth (not seasonally adjusted) was ...