Halfords Group plc reported same-store sales by its Cycling and Travel Solutions stores increased 7.6 percent and 5.7 percent respectively in the 15 weeks and fiscal third quarter ended Jan. 9. The UK’s leading retailer of ...
Tags: Same-Store Gains, Sporting Goods
For coatings producers one of the big benefits of the sharp fall in oil prices in the second half of last year (2014) should be a drop in raw material costs. Some commentators are also predicting a rise in demand due to the effect of ...
Tags: Oil Prices, Raw materials, Construction
Tennessee-based printing papers, specialty papers and pulp manufacturing company Verso Paper has completed the acquisition of its larger rival NewPage Holdings for $1.4bn. Verso announced that with this acquisition, it will have ...
Tags: flexible packaging, technical paper applications, Agriculture
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that, in continuing with its reorganization (as part of its 5-Point Program to return to sustainable profitability, launched in May 2013), it plans to cut ...
Tags: organic light-emitting diodes, gallium nitride, Electrical
RPM International Inc. reported a 10 percent increase in net income and an 8 percent increase in earnings per diluted share on flat sales for its fiscal 2015 second quarter ended November 30, 2014. Second-Quarter Results Net sales of ...
In recent years, with the rise of emerging channels,Stationery manufacturing enterprises are facing with the problem of positioning the traditional agents, distributors and the important issues such as relationship refactoring,the ...
Tags: traditional agents, stationery dealers, Office Supplies
Tokyo-based Showa Shell Sekiyu subsidiary Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has been selected to supply its modules to the Zero Energy ...
Tags: Solar Frontier, PV Modules, Electrical
Since last year,stationery industry in China is facing greater pressure.Inflation caused a series of operating costs continue to rise such as labor cost of raw materials costs, loss of demographic dividend, market competition intensifies, ...
Tags: development trend, raw materials, labor cost, Office Supplies
Manufacturer of flexible packaging machinery The Comexi Group has entered into a deal with two European companies to install its Comexi Offset CI8 printing press. The companies, one from Austria and the other from East Europe, are ...
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is giving fuel-conscious fleets two more SmartWay-verified retread products to help reduce their operating costs. Goodyear’s G392A SSD UniCircle and G394A SST UniCircle wide-base retread products recently ...
Tags: Retreads, Smartway Label, Auto
Mercedes-Benz has launched the updated version of B-Class Sports Tourer. "For the best of what's coming up" - so says the advertising slogan for the new B-Class. The market launch of the new model will shortly no longer be one of the ...
Tags: B-Class Sports Tourer, Auto
China-based ZRP Printing Group has installed five Manroland Sheetfed presses to enhance its production capacity. The first printer, the Ultima nine-colour Roland 700 HiPrint is already in operation in Kun Shan where the company was ...
Tags: Manroland Sheetfed presses, production capacity, Agriculture
PPG Industries displayed its wind industry solutions during China Wind Power 2014 at the China International Exhibition Center in Beijing. As the only company offering a “one-stop shop” for fiber glass, blade coatings, tower ...
Tags: PPG Industries, Coatings
Nissan has introduced "No Charge to Charge" program for buyers of new LEAF from Nissan dealers in the Chicago market. The program includes free public fast charging capable of charging the vehicle up to 80% in about 30 minutes. The ...
Tags: No Charge to Charge, Nissan, Auto
Hankook's AH11 tire for the steer axle and DH05+ for the drive axle will be OE on several Mercedes-Benz model trucks in Europe. Hankook Tire Corp. Ltd. is expanding its range of light to medium duty truck tires for the European ...