Demand for protective coatings in the European Union has been weakened by the downturn in EU manufacturing due to the euro crisis. But there is a protective coatings segment—coatings for oil and gas pipeline—further east in ...
Tags: protective coatings, EU, euro crisis, coatings for oil and gas pipeline
The business outlook for 2013 is mixed, with Australian executives indicating that sales, inventories, selling prices and employment will fall but investment and profits will rise. Dun & Bradstreet's latest National Business Expectations ...
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The business outlook for 2013 is mixed, with Australian executives indicating that sales, inventories, selling prices and employment will fall but investment and profits will rise. Dun & Bradstreet’s latest National Business ...
Tags: Australia, Australian economy, National Business Expectations Survey
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany has seen its third-quarter 2012 equipment orders pick up by 15% sequentially to €34.5m. The company says that current Q4/2012 quotation levels suggest a continuation of ...
A number of large public sector contracts buoyed IT services company Atos Origin in the third quarter, with the outsourcer reporting double-digit growth. Atos Origin grew its UK market 10% to €426m, compared with the same quarter the ...
Tags: public sector, IT services, Atos Origin, revenues increased
The'who's who of fashion buying attended Pure London this weekend and exhibitors reported plenty of orders being written and good business being done.The show closed its doors and having maintained visitor numbers year-on-year and key ...
Tags: Buoyant Mood, Great Business, Pure London, Denim
Just over two weeks since it all ended and the highs from PLASA are still running through the office at Green Hippo,says the company. With distributors,lighting designers and DJ's to students,technical managers and programmers the stand ...
Tags: PLASA, Green Hippo, Excel
With every iPhone launch comes fans waiting outside Apple stores in New York,and it was no different for the iPhone 5,which went on sale Friday. The iPhone 5,which Apple touts as the"thinnest,lightest and fastest"smartphone ever,has a ...
Tags: Iphone 5, NYC, Google Map, iOS
UK - Robe lighting enjoyed "a fabulous and highly eventful PLASA 2012 exhibition at Earl's Court". In addition to a super-busy four-day expo, the Czech moving light manufacturer launched seven new products; won a 2012 PLASA Innovation ...
Tags: PLASA 2012, Robe, Earl's Court, Light Relief
Wajax Corporation, Toronto, Ontario, announced a 12 percent increase in 2012 second quarter earnings. Second Quarter Highlights Consolidated second quarter revenue of $386.6 million increased $52.5 million, or 16 percent compared to last ...
Tags: market view, construction Equipment, excavator, mining equipment
UK-Flightcase manufacturer 5 Star Cases has expanded its HQ and manufacturing facility in Wisbech,Cambridgeshire again-this time adding a further 4700sq.ft of production units. This is the second development this year on the Broadend Road ...
UK food sales have jumped as consumers splashed out for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, but the latest figures from Kantar Worldpanel show that Tesco and Morrisons struggled to take advantage of this market growth. Both Tesco and Morrisons ...
Tags: food, Tesco, retailer, grocery inflation, frozen food
Usually the articles I write feature change of some sort. Most often it’s a statistical series that has moved up or down. Sideways is the exception. A series that is well-known for its volatility is construction costs. That’s ...
Tags: market view, construction
With rising living standards, housing, purchasing power is growing. People in the purchase and renovation of housing, the pursuit of high-grade decorative material has become a new fashion. In many materials, the use of stone is more ...
Tags: learning center, stone
LONDON: Finnforest hosted a 'meet the press' day last week at which it shared its predictions for the New Year about how it will be proceeding and what the timber market will be like in 2012. "Although some elements of the market have ...
Tags: market view, Finnforest