Online sales soared 57.7 per cent over the three weeks to December 28 House of Fraser is celebrating its best Christmas trading period ever,driven by a surge in online sales. The firm has revealed that for the three weeks to December ...
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House of Fraser, the UK and Ireland’s premium department store group, provides an update on its best ever Christmas trading period. Trading highlights include: - Like-for-like sales (ex VAT) for the first 9 weeks of the fourth ...
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Scientists have discovered how plants use steroid hormones to choose growth over defence when their survival depends on it. The findings published in the open-access scientific journal eLife could be used to engineer crops that combine ...
Millions of people step aboard airplanes each day, complaining about the lack of legroom and overhead space but almost taking for granted that they can travel thousands of miles in just a few hours. Wednesday marks the 100th anniversary ...
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German automaker Audi is set to invest EUR22bn to develop new models, innovations and for the expansion of the worldwide production network between 2014 and 2018. Almost 70% of the investment is intended for new models and technologies. ...
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Every employer annually plans the number of personnel when making plans for the year, same as ArcelorMittal Temirtau. The Company is going to reduce 2,500 jobs in 2014 and has approved 12,028 employees for 2014. This planned layoffs ...
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Hankook Tire America Corp. has released its 2013 Winter Gauge Index that reveals 41% of all Americans polled and more than half of Northeasterners and Midwesterners expect more snow this winter, as compared to last year. However, while ...
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As the cold of winter settles in across the United States, associations that represent the interests of wheat farmers met in many states to review the last year's activities and set plans for the next year. USW officers and staff look ...
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Earlier in December, concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) system maker Soitec of Bernin, France was informed that the European Commission (EC) has approved financing for the five-year Gupard program, which was launched in May 2012 to develop a ...
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The market has been focused on whether Taiwan LED chipmaker Epistar’s private placement will draw large international investors. Epistar issued US $250 million (NT $7.5 billion) euro convertible bonds (ECB) to Philips in August 2013. ...
China will encourage Chinese steel enterprises suffering from overcapacity to transfer their businesses to overseas markets where the steel market is still very big, a top official was quoted in a statement published on the website of the ...
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State biodiesel research aims to find new opportunities, increase soybean oil demand As biodiesel production grows, so do soybean farmers' profits. Biodiesel helps drive demand for U.S. soybean oil, which is why many state soybean ...
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Campobello Holdings has unveiled plans to open a seafood processing plant in Eastport, Maine, a move which would create 15 jobs over the next two years. The company is set to invest $500,000 on building improvements, equipment and ...
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey, and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif have agreed to conclude Pakistan-Turkey Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) by the first half of 2014. This was announced after the end of the ...
Six in 10 heads of Japanese companies expect the economy to have recovered half a year after this coming April's consumption tax hike, a Nikkei survey finds. The quarterly poll of presidents or chairmen at key domestic corporations found ...
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