ROUGHLY two decades ago,during an earlier Internet start-up boom,many entrepreneurs and fast-typing coders and engineers set up shop in a still-gritty area of this city:South of Market Street. The young tech crowd rented—and ...
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US retailer Safeway Inc has booked an increase in third-quarter earnings, helped by one-time items, but reported a drop in operating profit as it battled weak consumer confidence. The company said yesterday (11 October) net profit ...
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Commodities giant Archer Daniels Midland has booked a drop in full-year profits as record corn prices hit earnings in the fourth quarter. In the three months to the end of June, net profit fell 25% to US$284m, while operating profits slid ...
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II. Economy i. GDP In 2005, the GDP in Ningxia was 59.94billion Yuan, among which the output value of first industry has increased 6.978 billion Yuan, the secondary industry 27.782 billion Yuan, and the tertiary industry 25.18 billion ...
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HOUSTON - Bedding retailer Mattress Firm said sales jumped more than 50% in the quarter ended Oct. 30 due largely to acquisitions and store openings. Same-store sales, however, also rose 6.6% in the quarter as the company continued to ...
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Xito de CV has invested $4m in a new PET sheet extrusion line which will almost double its current production capacity of 19 million pounds a year. Xito owner and chief executive Norman Wright was quoted by Plastics News as saying that it ...
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Sri Lanka's Keells Food Products is planning to buy meat processing firm D&W Foods for LKR700m ($5.24m) and upgrade manufacturing facilities. The acquisition includes D&W Foods' production facility at Makundara Industrial Estate West, ...
Levi Strauss & Co. announced financial results for the third quarter ended August 26, 2012. Third quarter 2012 net revenues declined 9 percent on a reported basis and 4 percent on a constant currency basis. These results reflect the ...
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Cache Inc., a specialty chain of women's apparel stores announced estimated third quarter fiscal 2012 sales results and updated third quarter earnings guidance for the 13-week period ended September 29, 2012. The Company expects to report ...
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TNT N.V. announced the acquisition of ARC India Limited which operates under the trade name Speedage Express Cargo Services, one of the leading road express companies in India. This acquisition is a key component of TNT's Focus on ...
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Shipments of LED Street Lights to Surpass 17M by 2020 According to a new report from Pike Research,a part of Navigant's Energy Practice,the market for street lighting is in a period of dramatic transformation.New LED options and the ...
Looking to benefit from the substantial workforce it has,the Rajasthan government proposes to train 35,000 workers in the textile industry during the span of the 12th Five Year Plan(2012-17).Pursuant to a programme backed by the Union ...
American Apparel Inc.,a vertically integrated manufacturer,distributor,and retailer of branded fashion-basic apparel,announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30,2012. Dov Charney,Chairman and CEO of American ...
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New York City has installed almost 1,600 LED luminaires along paths throughout its iconic Central Park – a move that will cut energy consumption associated with park lighting by 62 percent and result in roughly $30,000 in maintenance ...
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SAP is urging businesses to rethink core business values to become more consumer-centric using mobile, social, cloud and business intelligence (BI). Addressing delegates via a video link at the opening of SAP TechEd Madrid, Bill ...
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