GFK GeoMarketing has released a study on European retail in 2013. The data was compiled and evaluated on behalf of the European Shopping Center Trust (ESCT). Published as an English-language compendium, the study provides a Europe-wide ...
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Spain / Greece - Genelec has appointed new distributors in Spain and Greece - two key Southern European territories for the company's range of professional monitoring and AV trade products. Growing business in Spain has seen the appointment ...
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The Grundfos Group s annual results are showing increased net turnover, increased market share and an incredibly strong solidity. A range of new products paves the way despite unfavorable conditions in some markets. "We knew it would take ...
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According to figures drawn up by the Gesamtverband Deutscher Holzhandel (GD Holz – General German Timber Trading Association) turnover generated by the German timber trade in 2012 showed year-on-year growth of 1.5% to a good ...
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According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q1 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in 2012 the European Union (EU) automotive sales declined by 8.2 percent year on year, ...
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The Ikea group increased retail turnover in the 2011/2012 financial year by 9.5% to €27.628bn. Adjusted for currency-exchange effects, this represented growth of 7.1%, while adjusted for selling space and currency-exchange effects, ...
The Ikea concern increased retail turnover in the 2011/2012 financial year (31 August) by 9.5% to €27.628bn. Adjusted for currency-exchange effects, this represented growth of 7.1%, while adjusted for selling space and ...
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Tech stocks are ending the first half of the year on an upbeat note with news that enterprise spending on software lately has been relatively strong. On Friday shares of computer companies led a U.S. market rally in the wake of reports ...
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While hardware and components makers face economic hurdles, the picture for software is getting brighter, according to earnings reports from major vendors and mid-year market research polls. Vendors and analysts lay much of the blame for ...
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Vodafone has reported a significant downturn in revenues for the first six months of fiscal year 2012, with much of the blaming the markets in southern European countries. Revenues for the group were down 7.4% year on year to just under ...
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Contract engineering services firm ASE Optics has opened a new European wing in Barcelona,Spain,in a response to the growing need for optical engineering expertise in the region. ASE,which became part of Rochester Precision ...
The executive board of The Modern Kitchen Working Group (AMK – Arbeitsgemeinschaft die Moderne Küche), is reckoning with the possibility of a further 2% to 3% growth in turnover in 2012 across the whole of the kitchen industry, ...
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Haulotte Group has announced a 23 percent increase in sales to €306.9 million for 2011, driven by a doubling of sales in North America and increases of 77 percent in Latin America and 48 percent in Asia. However, the company said ...
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In the early weeks of 2012, timber wholesalers and producers have been registering slightly higher demand for hardwood gluelam boards in Germany and Switzerland than they did a year ago. In contrast, export business to northern and southern ...
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More particleboard and MDF/HDF mills in Spain, Portugal and Italy look set to shut for a long period of time or for good before the year's end due to ongoing weak demand in domestic markets that can hardly be offset by temporary shutdowns ...