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REI Sales Rise 9.3 Percent In 2015

Mar 16, 2016

REI reported sales reached a record $2.4 billion in 2015 after a second consecutive year of nearly double-digit growth. Sales increased 9.3 percent from $2.2 billion in 2014, or 11 percent when adjusting for an extra 53-week of sales ...

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DSW's Q4 Earnings Slump

Mar 16, 2016

DSW Inc., as expected, reported earnings in the fourth quarter plunged 61.8 percent to $11.8 million, or 14 cents a share. Results came in ahead of Wall Street's average estimate of 8 cents a share. Comps inched up 0.8 percent in the ...

Tags: DSW, Roger Rawlins, Milestones, Achievements, Q4 earnings

Yakima Announces Executive Team Promotions

Mar 16, 2016

Yakima Products Inc. named Jason McGibbon as its vice president of sales, while Chris Sautter was appointed as the brand’s first product development center director. As vice president of sales, Jason McGibbon is responsible for ...

Tags: Yakima, Chris Sautter, Jason McGibbon

Superfeet Creates Global Director Of Marketing

Mar 16, 2016

Superfeet welcomed Linda Balfour as its new global director of marketing. This hire comes in conjunction with the brand launching a number of new products. Most recently, Superfeet launched insoles designed for hunting and lifestyle ...

Tags: Superfeet, Linda Balfour, Global director

Land Of Beds Wins Family Business Award Of Excellence

Mar 16, 2016

Leading independent bed retailer Land of Beds has won the Family Business Award of Excellence at Cheshire’s 10th annual High Sheriff’s Awards for Enterprise 2015-16. The awards recognise leaders of outstanding businesses in ...

Tags: Bed retailer, Land of Beds, Family Business Award

John Lewis Releases Annual Summary

Mar 16, 2016

John Lewis has continued to outperform the market in uncertain trading conditions, with gross sales up 2.8% to £4.56bn (4.4% on a 52 week basis). To ensure that customers can shop whenever and however they want, John Lewis has ...

Tags: John Lewis, Trade condition, Annual summary

Like-for-Likes Fall At Argos During Final Period

Mar 16, 2016

Home Retail Group has issued a trading statement for the eight weeks to 27th February 2016, a turbulent time for the company given the imminent sale of Argos and Homebase (the latter now completed). Chief executive John Walden ...

Tags: Home Retail Group, Argos

BRC Calls For Government Support As Retail Footfall Decreases

Mar 16, 2016

UK retail footfall in February was 1.1% down on a year ago – lower than the 1.2% rise seen in January and the three-month average rate of -0.8% – according to the latest BRC/Springboard Footfall and Vacancies Monitor. ...

Tags: BRC, Retail football, Goverment support

Cargill Pulling Back Antibiotic Use By 20% In Beef Cattle

Mar 16, 2016

Cargill is cutting back on the amount of antibiotics used on its U.S. cattle supply by 20%. This decision will influence 1.2 million cattle annually, none of which use any type of antibiotics for growth promotion that are important for ...

Tags: Cargill, Antibiotic, Cattle supply, Beef

Fairchild Launches Its First 1200V SiC Diode,Targeting High-Speed Solar Inverters And Rugged Industrial Applications

Mar 16, 2016

Fairchild Semiconductor of San Jose CA, USA has launched its first 1200V silicon carbide (SiC) diode, the FFSH40120ADN, in its series of upcoming SiC solutions. The 1200V diode's combination of switching performance, reliability and low ...

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EPC Publishes Reliability Report Documenting Over 17bn Field-Device Hours With Very Low Failure Rate

Mar 16, 2016

Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, has announced its Phase Seven Reliability ...

Tags: EPC, E-mode GaN FETs, GaN-on-Si

EFFECT Photonics Samples Its First Optical System-On-Chip Product Family

Mar 16, 2016

EFFECT Photonics b.v. – a spin off from the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e) in The Netherlands that develops optical components using indium phosphide (InP)-based multi-channel photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for mobile ...

Tags: PIC, InP

Soraa Supports TM-30 As Better Color Test For Lighting Industry Than The CRI Metric

Mar 16, 2016

Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has announced its support for advances in color science and the new TM-30 method released ...

Tags: Soraa, GaN-on-GaN

Monolith Demonstrating Fast-Switching SiC MOSFETs At APEC

Mar 16, 2016

In booth 1655 at the Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC 2016) in Long Beach, CA, USA (20–24 March), Monolith Semiconductor Inc of Round Rock, TX, USA is demonstrating its fast-switching silicon carbide (SiC) ...

Tags: SiC MOSFET, SiC Schottky barrier diodes, SiC power devices

Osram Introduces First 10° Binning For White LEDs

Mar 16, 2016

Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany says that its new TEN° binning provides the basis for what is claimed to be unprecedented color consistency for white LEDs, used for example as single-LED light sources in spotlights ...

Tags: Osram, LEDs

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