Launched in 2004, Thai Taste consists of over fifty products, all exclusively made in Thailand from fresh, locally sourced ingredients. The new packaging formats have helped reduce the amount of packaging by 69% to enhance the brand's ...
World cotton trade is forecast at 39.6 million bales for 2013/14, 15 percent below the previous season. Over the last 2 years, imports by China have driven the trade as China imported more than 20 million bales in both the 2011 and 2012 ...
Tags: cotton, import demand
Knowles Corporation KN +2.23% , a market leader and global supplier of advanced micro-acoustic solutions and specialty components, today updated projections that were originally provided at the Company’s analyst day on February 19, ...
Tags: micro-acoustic, global supplier
Falling hardware sales and the cost of layoffs hit IBM's profit hard in the first quarter, sending it down 21 percent from a year earlier.? Sales also fell, sliding 4 percent from last year's first quarter to US$22.5 billion. The ...
Tags: IBM, Hardware, Computer Products
Bauer Performance Sports Ltd. reported revenues rose 13 percent in its third quarter ended Feb. 28, to $62.2 million. Revenues were up 16 percent on a currency-neutral basis. On an adjusted basis, the EBITDA loss was trimmed to $3.2 ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
The fourth quarter of 2013 showed signs of improvement in small business loans. For the first time in 15 consecutive quarters, both the value and volume of small business loans increased simultane-ously 0.4 percent and 1.1 percent ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Soybean futures topped out Tuesday above $15/bushel for the first time in quite a while on news that there's a lot of demand for both the oilseed and its oil. The National Oilseed Processors Association (NOPA) announced Tuesday soybean ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Soybean
Communisis provides brand-building services to P&G including managing point-of-purchase store merchandising and direct-to-consumer marketing. The managed services provider has seen a huge jump in overseas sales in recent years, now ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use
Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes rose one point to 47 in April from a downwardly revised March reading of 46 on the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). ...
Tags: Construction
The Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack reported a net loss of $3.3 million on net sales of $495.7 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013 ended Feb. 2, 2014. In the year-ago quarter, the company reported a net loss of $14.5 million and net ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Accessories
Aimed at the tourist gift market, the new range was produced using Smurfit Kappa's T Flute micro flute. The packs consist of a fleet of 3 Grandma Wilds Campervans, packed full of clotted cream fudge, bitesize chocolate chip or bitesize ...
The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry rose 1.2 percent in February from January, rising after two consecutive monthly declines, according to the US Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Transportation, Freight Transportation
By 2020, the global middle class will almost double to 3.2 billion people, and as the middle class grows, particularly in emerging markets, so will their demand for high-tech gadgets, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, economy
U.S. cotton estimates include lower production and ending stocks compared with last month. Production is reduced 320,000 bales to 12.9 million based on USDA's final Cotton Ginnings report, released March 25. Domestic mill use and exports ...
The US Census Bureau and the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced today that total February exports of $190.4 billion and imports of $232.7 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $42.3 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy