Net sales for the first quarter ending March 31, 2015 slipped 9 per cent over the prior year first quarter at American Apparel, Inc., a manufacturer, distributor and retailer of branded fashion basic apparel. An American Apparel press ...
Phoenix Footwear Group, Inc., the parent of Trotters and SoftWalk, reported first-quarter sales grew 16.7 percent to to $6.7 million from $5.7 million a year ago. The company saw growth in both its Trotters and Softwalk brands during the ...
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday called for improved import and export policies to offer more choice to the domestic market. Boosting domestic demand is key to ensuring steady growth and successful economic restructuring, said a ...
Tags: Domestic Market, Consumer Goods
Swedish Match’s proposal to ease warning labels related to snus tobacco packaging has not been given a clearance by US FDA. Snus is a cloth baggie with moist tobacco powder and has to be put under the upper lip by consumers to ...
Tags: Snus Packaging, Swedish Match, Packaging
Dunelm Group plc has issued a trading update for the third quarter of its current financial year, comprising the 13-week period ending 28th March 2015. Total revenue grew by 10.7% to £216.2m. However, total like-for-like growth ...
Tags: Dunelm Group, Home Delivery sales, Furniture
Last year, Asia Pulp & Paper installed solar panels in China that are providing 70.5 megawatts of solar power. APP is to add another 200 megawatts across eight of its mill companies in China. That is enough to power more than 500,000 ...
Tags: Pulp, Paper, Solar Rooftop
Shoppers formed a lengthy queue in anticipation for the opening of a landmark sale - at one of Berwick's oldest-running family shops last week. The keen bargain hunters were keen to get the first look at the reduced items – which ...
China's central bank is entitled to impose restrictive examinations on gold and gold production, according to a guideline issued Thursday. In accordance with macro control, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) demands that all the gold and ...
Tags: Gold Import, Gold Export
PV demand has started to increase this month, according to EnergyTrend’s observation. End-market demand for high-efficiency cells/modules has also reflected an uptrend. In the end of 2014, 250W 60-cell multi-si module remained the ...
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China's State Council has given approval for Hangzhou, an e-commerce hub, to set up the country's first cross-border e-commerce pilot zone, according to a statement released on Thursday. Hangzhou, capital city of East China's ...
In the fourth quarter of 2014, adjusted earnings per share at retailer Target Corporation grew 14.9 per cent from the same quarter of 2013. Adjusted earnings per share rose to $1.50, up 14.9 per cent from $1.31 in 2013, while full-year ...
Family Dollar Stores said based on a preliminary count of the votes cast at its special meeting of stockholders, its shareholders voted to approve the proposed merger with Dollar Tree. “Based on preliminary count, around 84 million ...
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Under the agreement that signed in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, China gives Switzerland an 8-billion-US-dollar investment quota under its Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor program, and the two sides plan to open a Chinese bank in ...
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John Lewis' first full week of clearance got off to a bumper start, with sales up 9.6% on last year. Customers took advantage of the longer Christmas holiday to go shopping. There was a robust performance from shops which benefited from ...
Tags: stand-out performance, Christmas holiday, shopping, Furniture
The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), under Department of Revenue, India’s Ministry of Finance, has issued a circular announcing extension of 24x7 Customs clearance facility at 13 more airports in respect of all export goods ...
Tags: specified import, export goods, Textile