Efficiency improvements and successful price negotiations are helping meat firm Cranswick offset the impact of rising feed costs,according to City analysts commenting on its interim results for the six months to September 30. Reported ...
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US food group Hormel Foods saw its profits accelerate in the final quarter of its financial year amid stronger earnings from its grocery products business. Hormel, which makes Spam canned meat, booked a 13% increase in net earnings to ...
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HP has reported almost across-the-board declines in revenue in its fourth-quarter and full-year results,which were capped by claims of accounting irregularities at Autonomy,the intelligent-search software vendor it acquired ...
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Shop Direct Group, the UK's leading online and home shopping retailer with brands including Very.co.uk, Littlewoods and isme, announces its full-year results for the 12-month period to 30th June 2012. Financial Performance – all ...
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Software giant Microsoft has posted first quarter fiscal revenues down 7.9 per cent to$16bn(£10bn),from$17.372bn(£10.8bn)achieved in the same period a year earlier. The company claimed that the results partly reflected a ...
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On Tuesday, 24 July 2012, the Board of Billabong announced that it had received an indicative, non-binding and conditional proposal from TPG to acquire all of the shares in the company for $1.45 cash per share by way of a scheme of ...
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Debenhams plc, the leading international, multi-channel brand, announces a trading update for the 52 weeks to 1 September 2012 ahead of its full year results on 25 October 2012. Key highlights • Strong like-for-like sales ...
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Myer Holdings Limited releases full year results ending 28 July 2012. Financial highlights Sales • FY2012 sales down 1.3% to $3,119 million, down 2.0% on a comparable store sales basis • 2H2012 sales down 0.7% to ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced a US$8.9 billion loss for its third quarter ended July 31 due to writedowns and weak hardware sales and also said full-year results would be at the low end of its previous guidance. ...
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Komatsu Ltd. (6301), the world’s second- largest maker of excavators, posted a 25 percent decline in fourth-quarter profit after Chinese sales declined. Net income fell to 37.7 billion yen ($464 million) for the three months ended ...
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A raft of first-quarter results stories this week from the likes of Danone and Nestle, and full-year results from Tesco have kept analysts busy. In addition to Tesco's sales figures, the group's CEO Philip Clarke revealed further details of ...
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Total sales revenues for 2011, which were previously announced as preliminary and have meanwhile been audited, stand at €519.5 million. This is an increase of 135.6 percent (previous year: €220.5 million). The first-time inclusion ...
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- Full year Net Sales increase 25% to $18.1 billion - Agricultural equipment +23% to $14.2 billion - Construction equipment +32% to $3.9 billion - Full year Equipment Operations - Operating Profit of $1.5 billion, an increase of 65% - ...
Caterpillar Inc. Delivered record-breaking 2011 sales and revenues of $60.138 billion, an increase of 41 percent from $42.588 billion in 2010, citing “outstanding execution and stronger global demand, ” as the impetus. Profit in ...