The European Commission has approved a €28m financing package for milk producers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The move comes in response to the Russian ban on the import of certain EU agricultural products. Of the total ...
As many Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers have increasingly shifted production from polycrystalline models to monocrystalline ones for higher gross margins, increased global supply plus decreased demand may drive prices for ...
Tags: monocrystalline, solar cell
The U.S. consumer price index (CPI) for jewelry declined 5 percent year on year to 171.35 points in October and the reading slipped about 4 points from September's index. The CPI for watches, meanwhile, rose 2.6 percent to 124.42 points, ...
Tags: Jewelry, Consumer Price
Volkswagen's Spanish division SEAT is expected to stop selling its cars in Russia due to weak sales following economic downturn and its impact on local currency. Apart from other industries, cars have been hit badly due to the economic ...
Tags: economic downturn, oil prices, Auto
The value of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened by 21 basis points to 6.1430 against the U.S. dollar in its central parity rate on Tuesday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading System. In China's spot foreign ...
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October average retail pricing for 7W LED light bulbs (equivalent to 40W incandescents) in the China market increased 2.4% on month to CNY34.70 (US$5.70), while that for 9W models (equivalent to 60W incandescents) fell 0.2% to CNY41.60, ...
Tags: LED light bulbs, Lights
The lighting-use LED market will contract 5-16% in the fourth quarter of 2014, while backlighting-use LED products will fall 4-13% according to TrendForce. The average price of lighting-use LED products is falling with the arrival of the ...
Tags: lighting-use LED market, Lights
Global cotton prices which have plummeted in recent months, has triggered ‘Minimum Support Price’ measures from governments of large cotton producing countries, says ICAC. In 2013/14, the Cotlook A Index averaged 91 cents/lb, ...
Tags: Global cotton prices, cotton producing countries, Textile
The free trade agreement (FTA) to be signed by Australia and China is expected to provide the former's dairy farmers tariff-free access to the latter's infant formula market over the next four years. Australian Government sources were ...
Tags: dairy farmers tariff-free, infant formula market, Agriculture
Peugeot Citroen is planning to cut around 20% of its workforce from Warwickshire facilities which include workers from its Pinley House and Tile Hill facilities in UK. The company cited that it is restructuring operation and planning to ...
Premium Brands, a producer, marketer and distributor of branded specialty food products, announced its results for the third quarter of 2014. * Revenue for the quarter increased by 15.2% to $330.4 million as compared to $287.0 million for ...
Tags: Premium Brands, Adjusted EBITDA, Agriculture
Darling Ingredients, a global developer and producer of sustainable natural ingredients from edible and inedible bio-nutrients, creating a wide range of ingredients and customized specialty solutions for customers in the pharmaceutical, ...
Lifeway Foods, a supplier of cultured dairy products known as kefir and organic kefir, today announced results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2014. "Our strong double digit net sales growth in the third quarter demonstrates the ...
An unplanned manufacturing disruption of PO/MTBE, led to US based Huntsman Corporation reporting a lower adjusted EBITDA, from a year ago quarter, in the third quarter of 2014. Huntsman said adjusted EBITDA amounted to $356 million in ...
Following on the 2012/2013 investment program and the resulting enhancement of its global presence, Rieter is setting new priorities in the implementation of its strategy, among which includes growing faster than the market. Rieter said ...