The 14th AFGC Chep Retail Index, released on 28 July, suggests that the retail sector has regained much of its strength. The Index shows year-on-year retail sales growth was 5.2% in the June quarter. And although this was a slight dip ...
In marketing, brand management has often focused on the customer experience. Brands set expectations of a particular customer experience. The brand is an expression of a product or company’s reputation built up over time. Today, ...
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Tabar, Inc., a private label technical sport glove design and production firm which has built handwear for the outdoor and sports markets for more than 32 years, is merging with Fownes Brothers & Co., Inc., a 236-year-old company in the ...
Tags: Tabar, Fownes Brothers&Co, Sporting Goods
Honeywell announced its results for the second quarter of 2014. Highlights: -Organic Sales Growth 3%; Strong Execution Across The Portfolio -EPS Up 8% Reported, Up 12% Using Normalized Tax Rate -Raising Low-End Proforma EPS ...
Global credit rating agency Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has announced that it has revised the outlook on India-based steelmaker Tata Steel to stable from negative, while affirming its 'BB' long-term corporate credit rating on Tata ...
Tags: Tata, improve, Metallurgy, Mineral
VF Corporation reported financial results for its second quarter ended June 28, 2014. All per share amounts are presented on a diluted basis. Strong contribution from our Vans, Timberland, The North Face, Kipling and Wrangler brands drove ...
Tags: VF, Apparel, Accessories
After speculators had sold nearly 8 million bales net since early May, they finally seemed to move to the sidelines, allowing the market to recover some of its losses this week. The latest CFTC report as of July 29 showed speculators ...
Tags: Speculators, Decline, Textile
Australia-based South American Ferro Metals Limited (SAFM) has announced that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the owners of the property adjacent to its Ponto Verde iron ore project in Brazil. The memorandum ...
Tags: Australia, Iron Ore, MoU, Metallurgy, Mineral
Open Automotive Alliance (OAA), a consortium formed by automotive giants in collaboration with technology providers like Google, has launched an automotive specific operating system, the Android Auto at the Google I/O annual technology ...
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The automotive industry is caught between an app and a hard place. On one hand, carmakers are feeling growing pressure from thoroughly modern consumers, who expect their next car to respond more like a smartphone. On the other hand, the ...
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Styrolution is seeking to expand polystyrene margins following the settlement of the June styrene contract price, the company said late Monday. With the Northwest European styrene contract agreed at Eur1,360/mt FOB ARA ($1,850/mt), down ...
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Asian paraxylene buyers placed their counterbids for June at $1,150-1,170/mt CFR, more than $100/mt lower than nominations for the Asian contract price, sources close to the negotiations said Thursday. There are four PX ACP sellers in ...
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The nation's largest sporting goods retailer reported net sales for the first quarter of 2014 ended May 3, 2014 increased 7.9 percent to $1.4 billion. Consolidated same store sales increased 1.5 percent, compared to the company's guidance ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Golf, Hunting
It was a combination of technical weakness and economic worries that weighed on the market this week, as the spot month moved perilously close to the important 90 cents support level, settling at its lowest level since March 13. From a ...
Demand for gallium is forecast to rise rapidly between 2014 and 2020 as general lighting moves away from incandescent and fluorescent lamps to light-emitting diodes (LEDs). This strong growth is not, however, likely to result in any ...
Tags: Gallium Market, GaN-Based LED