Plant-based ingredients provider Naturex has divested its stake in the joint venture with Aker Biomarine which was created to krill extract production. As part of the agreement, Aker BioMarine will pay Naturex an undisclosed sum ...
Tags: Naturex, Aker Biomarine, Ingredients provider, Extract production
When it comes to pricing and market expectations, 2015 was another tough competitive year for packaged LED vendors, with challenges in both backlighting and lighting, comments Jamie Fox (principal analyst for Lighting and LEDs at IHS ...
Tags: LED market, Packaged Led Maker, Samsung
The Finish Line Inc. reported earnings for the fourth quarter before non-recurring items fell 11.6 percent to $36.5 million, or 83 cents a share. Earnings came in at the high end of its guidance calling for earnings between 78 and 83 cents ...
Tags: Non-adjustments, Q4 Profits, Finish Line
Li & Fung Limited, which designs, sources and distributes consumer goods for many of the world's leading consumer brands, reported sales 2.4 percent to $18.8 billion in 2015. “2015 was a challenging year," said Spencer Fung, Group ...
Tags: Li&Fung, Sales, Retail distribution
Following significant drops both on month and on year in January, worldwide notebook shipments remained weak in February, growing only 2% sequentially for the top-five brand vendors together and 1% sequentially for the top-three notebook ...
US-based Victory Packaging is set to open a new warehouse and distribution center in Chicago in April to expand its packaging-related operations in the region. The new 275,000ft2 facility will be located in Aurora, a suburb of Chicago, ...
Tags: Victory Packaging, Distribution
"Our goal is to change the future of play by blending robotics, toys and video games to create a new category in entertainment. Toys R Us has been a true partner in making this vision a reality." Anki has been named as Toys R Us' Vendor ...
The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) exceeded US$6.4 billion in revenues in the fourth quarter of 2015, an increase of 3.2% on year and a healthy increase of 5.1% on quarter. For full-year 2015, the market increased 1.9% over ...
Tags: Ethernet Switch, Router
With assistance from Microsoft and Intel, China-based brand vendors and white-box players have been aggressively pushing new 2-in-1 devices recently. In addition to Huawei's MateBook and Haier's 2-in-1 devices, white-box players are ...
Tags: white-box players, Huawei, Acer, notebooks
The worldwide wearable device market took a big step forward in the fourth quarter of 2015, fueled by the growing popularity of fitness trackers and the Apple Watch. According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, vendors ...
Tags: Wearable Market, Wearable Device
According to figures published by IDC, in the fourth quarter of 2015 over 14 million tablets were shipped to Western Europe as the market volume declined 10.1% on year. In value terms, however, the decline was only 1.8% on year, thanks to ...
Tags: Tablets, iPad volumes
Asustek Computer and Gigabyte Technology will increase motherboard retail prices in the China market in February to cope with potential foreign exchange losses arising from large fluctuations in exchange rate between the Chinese Yuan (CNY) ...
Tags: high-end models, motherboard
The Apple Watch just pushed smartwatch sales above those of Swiss watches for the first ever time. Apple has kept mysteriously quiet when it comes to the sales performance of its first-generation Apple Watch, leading some to speculate ...
Tags: Apple Watch, Smartwatch, Swiss Watches
Xiaomi fell out of the top-2 smartphone vendors in China in the fourth quarter of 2015, but remained the region's top smartphone vendor in all of the year. According to IDC, Xiaomi continued to rank as the top smartphone vendor in the ...
Tags: Xiaomi, Huawei, smartphone
In its report 'Global Packaged Gallium Nitride (GaN) LED Market 2016-2020' – which forecasts a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 5% – market research firm Technavio has profiled the top four leading vendors (Cree ...
Tags: GaN LED, LED Market