Akzo Nobel N.V. has reported positive volume growth and an improvement in return on sales (ROS) for the full-year 2014. Excluding incidentals, ROS was 7.5 percent (2013: 6.1 percent). Operating income excluding incidentals grew 20 percent ...
Tags: AkzoNobel, Decoration Coating
Driven by reduced markdowns, American Eagle Outfitters posted a 200 basis points from a year earlier quarter hike in gross profit margins for the third quarter ended November 1, 2014. Gross profit increased 6 per cent year on year to $315 ...
Tags: buying, occupancy, warehousing deleverage, Apparel
For the thirteen weeks period ended November 1, 2014, net loss at clothing retailer Aeropostale more than doubled year on year as a result of huge amount of after tax charges. The retailer reported a net loss for the third quarter of 2014 ...
Tags: Clothing Retailer, tax charges, Apparel
Premium Brands, a producer, marketer and distributor of branded specialty food products, announced its results for the third quarter of 2014. * Revenue for the quarter increased by 15.2% to $330.4 million as compared to $287.0 million for ...
Tags: Premium Brands, Adjusted EBITDA, Agriculture
Brunswick Corporation reported adjusted operating earnings increased 45 percent in the third quarter on a 13 percent revenue gain. Fitness segment sales, including Life Fitness, and Marine Engine segment revenues, each grew 11 percent. Boat ...
Tags: Brunswick, Marine Engine
Campbell Soup Company today reported its fourth-quarter and full-year results for fiscal 2014. The company reported earnings from continuing operations for the quarter ended Aug. 3, 2014, of $137 million, or $0.43 per share, compared with ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Despite a 50% growth in the North American online business, net earnings crashed 50.5% year-on-year at lifestyle apparel retailer Guess Inc in the second fiscal quarter ending August 2, 2014. For the second quarter of 2014, Guess ...
Ecommerce sales accounted for 6.3% of total revenue at DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc., the largest U.S. based full-line omni-channel sporting, including apparel goods retailer in the second quarter ended August 2, 2014, up from 5.6% in the ...
Tags: Dick's Sporting, apparel goods
Power management company Eaton Corporation plc (NYSE:ETN) today announced that operating earnings per share, which exclude charges of $0.05 per share to integrate recent acquisitions, were $0.41 for the second quarter of 2014. Adjusted ...
Tags: Eaton, Electrical, Electronics
For the third quarter of fiscal 2014, Johnson Controls, Inc., a global multi-industrial company, reported net income from continuing operations of $238 million, or $0.35 per share, on $10.8 billion in revenues. Third quarter diluted ...
Tags: Johnson Controls, EPS, Textile
Global specialty products supplier AMG Aluminum is curtailing its annual aluminum alloys capacity by 5,000 mt, or around 10% of its global demand, due to current market conditions, the company said Tuesday. AMG said in a statement its ...
Tags: AMG Aluminum, aluminum alloys, Soft Market
TreeHouse Foods (THS) today reported first quarter earnings of $0.38 per fully diluted share compared to $0.62 per fully diluted share reported for the first quarter of last year. The Company reported that adjusted earnings per share ...
Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker, has announced its financial results for the first quarter this year. Regarding the 2014 outlook, ArcelorMittal has lowered its global steel demand growth guidance to 3-3.5 ...
Tags: Steel Demand, steelmaker
For first-quarter 2014, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €43.9m, down 14% on €51.1m last quarter but up 9% on €40.2m a year ago. Of total revenue, 73% (€32.1m) came from ...
Tags: Aixtron MOCVD, LED, Electrical, Electronics, deposition equipment
Columbia Sportswear Company, a leading innovator in the global outdoor apparel, footwear, accessories and equipment industries, announced record first quarter net sales of $424.1 million, an increase of 22 percent compared with first ...