Big 5 Sporting Goods reported that for the fiscal 2014 first quarter, net sales were $231.3 million, compared to net sales of $246.3 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2013. Same store sales declined 7.9 percent for the first quarter ...
Tags: Recreation, Sporting Goods
"Clariant had a promising start to the year with good volume growth and an increase in operating profitability," said CEO Hariolf Kottmann. "Overall, our businesses performed well in an improving but still mixed economic environment. The ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, economy
DuPont Packaging Graphics has launched the new flexographic printing plate Cyrel FAST DFUV, which can be used with ultraviolet (UV) curable inks. Cyrel DFUV has been designed to use in applications involving high end substrates such as ...
Garmin Ltd. reported revenues at its Fitness segment soared as consumers snatched up its newest Forerunner smart watches and the vivofit, the company's entry into the rapidly growing fitness band market. Fitness segment revenue grew by ...
Tags: Fitness Sales, Sporting Goods, Recreation
The U.S. Department of Energy's Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium (MSSLC) has released an update to its Model Specification for Adaptive Control and Remote Monitoring of LED Roadway Luminaires, V1.0. The new resource has been ...
Tags: Energy, Lighting Control Systems
A growing economy, pent-up demand, competitive mortgage rates and affordable home prices will keep housing on an upward trajectory through 2015. However, several obstacles including tight consumer credit, shortages of lots and labor and ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Net sales were down by 2.5% to $27.8m compared to the same period in 2013. Excluding prior year sales from divested businesses, Q1 net sales were up 1.7% to $17.5m. The Georgia-based company is one of the largest producers of folding ...
Tags: Packaging, folding cartons
Researchers in Switzerland and Norway have used strain to alter the light-emitting properties of gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanowires [G. Signorello et al, Nature Communications, vol5, p3655, published online 10 Apr 2014]. The researchers from ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
For first-quarter 2014, Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford, MA, USA (which designs and supplies analog, digital and mixed-signal RF, microwave and millimeter-wave ICs, modules and subsystems as well as instrumentation) has reported record ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
ICE Cotton futures gained almost 100 pts this week basis the N4 to settle at 93.25 c/lbs. Thursday was the soon-to-expire K4 contract's First Notice Day, which was preceded by a large drop in OI via EFP and EFS transactions, rumored to be ...
For first-quarter 2014, RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has reported revenue of $177.6m, down 34% on $267.7m last quarter (due to seasonality plus channel inventory ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Delta Apparel, Inc. reported that for its fiscal 2014 second quarter ended Mar. 29, 2014, net sales were $114.5 million versus $120.1 million for the comparable 2013 period. The 5 percent sales decline was due primarily to unseasonably cold ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Sporting Apparel
TDK Corporation presents a new series of soft-termination MLCCs that are specially designed to withstand flex cracking caused by bending stresses to the PCB. The new series of commercial grade MLCCs with soft terminations is available in ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Amer Sports reported net sales reached €501.5 million in the quarter ended March 30, an increase of 6 percent in local currency, or currency-neutral, terms. The owner of Acr'teryx, Salomon, Suunto and other outdoor sporting goods ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
RF, microwave and millimeter-wave product maker Pasternack Enterprises Inc of Irvine, CA, USA has launched a new portfolio of L- and S-band high-gain amplifiers covering 1.2-1.4GHz and 3.1-3.5GHz specifically for commercial and military ...
Tags: power amplifier, Electrical, Electronics