Marimekko Corporation announces result from time period from 1 January - 30 September 2013. In the January-September period of 2013, the Marimekko Group’s net sales grew by 9 percent relative to the same period last year. ...
Tags: Market outlook, Apparel
In its 15th annual monitoring report, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has highlighted that further economic reforms are required if future benefits of continuing industry reforms and increasing competition in the ...
Tags: economy, Shipping Industry, Logistics
North America is the world's largest consumer of packaging. Since a brief dip in 2009, the North American packaging market has recently been growing steadily. Although market sentiment is still cautious in the region, the North American ...
BAE Systems has reached agreement in principle with HM Government on measures to enable the implementation of a restructuring of its UK naval ships business The agreement will result in: Restructuring of the contract for the Queen ...
Tags: Transportation, Service
Australia is a good potential investment target in the shale gas sector for Chinese companies as the domestic industry hopes that its own developments there can help meet soaring demand, according to several experts in the field. "It is a ...
Tags: Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Global steelmakers, metallurgical coal miners and merchant coke producers are feeling the heat thanks to sluggish steel and coal prices coupled with the prospect of higher energy costs in the US due to regulation, participants said Tuesday ...
Tags: steel, Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral
New York-based private equity specialist AEA Investors LP is buying Siemens' Water Technologies business unit in a deal valued at €640 million. The sale includes Siemens Water Technologies' municipal, industrial and services water and ...
Austrian steelmaker voestalpine AG has announced its financial results for the first half ended September 30 of the fiscal year 2013-14. Accordingly, voestalpine's net profit in the first half decreased by 10.9 percent to €240 ...
Tags: Voestalpine, Economic Recovery
Global packaging services provider MeadWestvaco (MWV) has announced a 4% decrease in carbon emissions since 2010 in its corporate responsibility report for 2012. MWV has also reduced water usage by 5% and half of its global manufacturing ...
Tags: MeadWestvaco, Carbon Emissions
Energizer Holdings, Inc. announced results for the fourth fiscal quarter and full fiscal year 2013, which ended September 30, 2013. For the full fiscal year, the Company reported net earnings per diluted share of $6.47, an increase of 4.0% ...
In a bold and unexpected move that underscores its role as a leader in social innovation, Toms launched the Toms Marketplace, a new online retail destination hosted on Toms.com that features a curated collection of 200 socially conscious ...
Tags: Online Marketplace Platform, Toms
Apple plans to build a components plant in Mesa, Arizona, that will run entirely on renewable energy. It will be the company's latest move to build up its manufacturing in the U.S. Most of the company's products are manufactured overseas, ...
Tags: Apple, Renewable Energy
Europe's energy intensive industries are probably divided on the merits of power savings targets for 2030, but if the right mix of unambiguous and universal targets and measures can be agreed – and explained – opposition could ...
Tags: Construction, Glass, Glass Industry
Hewlett-Packard has announced a multi-year effort to port its Nonstop server systems, used by banks, telcos and other businesses that need maximum reliability, from Intel's Itanium architecture to x86. HP's latest and perhaps biggest move ...
Tags: HP, Computer Products, software
Managing director Wilcockson said the Chesterfield business was going from "strength to strength" following more than £500,000 of investments in the last 12 months. In the next year his company will extend the footprint of the ...