Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation increased its guidance for financial results for the third quarter ending Jan. 31, and full 2015 fiscal year, which will end April 30, 2015, saying it has seen recent, positive trends in the primary ...
Tags: Battenfeld Technologies, consumer firearm market, Sporting Goods
Goodway Machine Corp. and Tongtai Machine & Tool Co., Ltd. are expected to join the NT$10 billion (US$322.58 million at US$1:NT$31) revenue club of Taiwan's machine-tool sector in Taiwan with consolidated revenue in 2015. Only a handful ...
Tags: machine-tool sector, Manufacturing
Diamantaires were happy to see the back of 2014. After all, it was a tough year in which polished diamond prices declined, accelerating the general downtrend evident since mid-2011. Therefore, there is understandably some uncertainty about ...
The reduction of bank credit available to the diamond industry is a game changer that will influence the market for many years to come. Therefore, this column has chosen bank credit as its most important story of 2014, rising above other ...
Tags: diamond industry, diamond market
Boston Power, a provider of next generation electric vehicle battery design and production, has secured USD $290 million in local government financial support for the expansion of its two facilities in China. The company's Liyang facility ...
China has agreed to cut some of the bureaucracy that delays sales of medical devices and medicines made in the United States, the U.S. commerce secretary announced. Following bilateral trade talks between the two nations, Commerce ...
Tags: Medical devices, Medicines
Smith & Wesson reported earnings slid 70.3 percent in the second quarter, to $5.05 million, or 9 cents a share. Revenues slumped 22.1 percent. Net sales for the second quarter were $108.4 million, a decrease of 22.1 percent from net sales ...
Tags: Slides, Sporting Goods
CEOs from the ports of Seattle and Tacoma added their voice over the weekend to a growing chorus calling for President Barack Obama to assign federal mediators to resolve contract negotiations between the Pacific Maritime Association and ...
Tags: Pacific Maritime Association, International Longshore, Sporting Goods
Following on the 2012/2013 investment program and the resulting enhancement of its global presence, Rieter is setting new priorities in the implementation of its strategy, among which includes growing faster than the market. Rieter said ...
Industry executives predict that Taiwan's machine-tool maker Goodway Machine Corp. will earn NT$5.5 per share this year on consolidated revenues of NT$7.5 billion (US$250.0 million at NT$30:US$1) and NT$8 billion (US$266.6 million), thanks ...
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For third-quarter 2014, specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada has reported revenue of $114.4m, down 16% on $136.6m last quarter but up 5% on $108.6m a year ago. “We reported ...
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For third-quarter 2014, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €45.6m, down just 1.3% on €46.2m both last quarter and a year ago. The utilization rates of most tier-one LED chip makers ...
Tags: Aixtron, deposition equipment, LED maker
For its fiscal first-quarter 2015 (ended 28 September 2014), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $427.7m, up 9% on $391m a year ago but down 2% on $436.3m last quarter (and below the $440-465m forecasted in mid-August). ...
ABB’s focus on profitable organic growth and the related strategic initiatives resulted in a strong order increase across all regions in the third quarter. Total orders3 rose to $11.2 billion, boosted by large orders (above $15 ...
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Lead times and prices in the electronics components industry saw a little more movement in September than in prior months, according to Avnet’s latest Market & Technology Trends report. Pricing of analog components, discretes, logic ...
Tags: Component Trends, Volatility, Electrical