Spain based Inditex Group, which has notable fashion brands like Zara in its portfolio, said its sales in the twelve months to January 31, 2015, rose 8 per cent year over year. Sales in fiscal 2014 grew 8 per cent from the previous fiscal ...
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There were ten out of twelve months of increasing demand for design services in 2014, and the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) points to a healthy outlook for the nonresidential construction industry. As a leading economic indicator of ...
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UK based Universal Flexible Packaging (UFP) will invest around £2.3m in an effort to transform its present Lunsford Road facility into a Peanut and Tree Nut site. The announcement for the conversion follows another announcement of ...
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Leicester-based Universal Flexible Packaging (UFP) will be investing around £2.3m to convert its current Lunsford Road site into a Peanut and Tree Nut site. The company made this announcement after its September announcement of ...
Tags: confectionery, popcorn, dry goods packaging
The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) in a statement said it has deferred till further orders the procedure it had mandated earlier, to export organic cotton made textiles. Earlier, the DGFT had mandated a December 18, 2014 ...
The Supply Chain and Logistics Association of Australia (SCLAA), the AIP and APPMA have had the Christmas party theme for five years in a row. The annual pack-a-hamper Christmas party was attended by 130 people this year. They packed a ...
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DSW Inc. reported third-quarter earnings declined 9.8 percent to $49.6 million, or 55 cents a share. But earnings came in better than Wall Street estimates and sales in all major categories accelerated compared to the first half. Comparable ...
Tags: women's footwear, Sporting Goods
Pie Face collapses into voluntary administration Australian food franchise Pie Face has collapsed into voluntary administration. In a media statement, the Pie Face Group confirmed Jirsch Sutherland has been appointed as administrators. ...
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US-based WhiteWave Foods has acquired So Delicious Dairy Free, in a previously announced deal worth $195m. Earlier in September, WhiteWave Foods agreed to acquire So Delicious Dairy Free from its existing shareholders, led by Wasserstein ...
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Apparel retailer and NYSE listed, Kate Spade & Company reported a surge of 30% in fiscal third quarter ending October 4, 2014 revenues, from a year ago quarter. Kate Spade said net sales from continuing operations for the third quarter of ...
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Adjusted EBITDA at NYSE listed, American Apparel, a marketer and retailer of clothing soared 38% year-on-year to $13.5 million in the third quarter ending September 30, 2014. However, net loss for the third quarter of 2014 shot up ...
Tags: Adjusted EBITDA, American Apparel, Apparel
Quiksilver Inc. reached a definitive agreement to sell its majority stake in online retailer Surfdome to Surfstitch of Australia for net proceeds of approximately (US)$16 million for its equity interest, loans and other amounts due from ...
Tags: Quiksilver, Surfdome, Sporting Goods
BSN Sports completed the acquisition of Todd & Moore Sporting Goods, Inc.'s team sales division based in Columbia, SC. Todd & Moore Sporting Goods (“T&M”), family owned and operated since 1944, is a leading retailer and ...
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Although sales surged 20% from a year earlier quarter at Amazon.com in the three months to September 30, 2014, net loss soared more than ten-fold in the quarter. Net loss rose massively Amazon to $437 million in the third quarter of 2014, ...
Tags: Sales, Amazon, Accessories
Cabela's Inc. reported total revenue increased 4.1 percent in the third quarter, to $886.0 million. Retail store revenue increased 8.7 percent to $598.7 million; Direct revenue decreased 11.7 percent to $175.3 million; and Financial ...
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