For the second fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2014, net profit shot up 60%, while sales climbed 17%, both growths coming from a year ago periods, at Shoppers Stop Ltd (SSL). SSL reported a gross retail turnover of Rs. 942.76 crore ...
Flipkart, one of the leading online shopping destinations in India, has entered into a strategic partnership with Euronet India, a global leader in secure electronic transaction processing and payment solutions, to offer Flipkart’s ...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany and Corning Inc announce a co-marketing agreement to promote Corning Fibrance Light-Diffusing Fiber, a first-of-its-kind technology that embeds lighting into products using Osram laser ...
Tags: Osram, Blue laser, optical fiber
Mombasa Apparels, a Kenya-based garment company, has opened a factory, set up at a cost of Sh2.2 billion, in Kenya’s coastal town of Mtwapa, Kilifi County. The new factory is expected to create 3,000 jobs and would manufacture ...
Tags: garment company, job creation, Apparel
Momentive Performance Materials Inc. has commissioned two new expansions at its Rayong, Thailand manufacturing facility to serve the growing Asian market demand for specialty chemicals. Commissioning took place as part of part of the 10th ...
Tags: Chemicals, Asian market, specialty chemicals
Diageo-owned Indian alcoholic beverages company United Spirits is planning to divest two distilleries in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. The move is in line with the company's strategy to boost its resources by cutting down ...
Tags: United Spirits, Distilleries, Food
In the year 1920 in China, women still bound their breasts and those who wore low-cut clothing revealing even the slightest bit of skin risked being arrested by outraged authorities. But only seven years later, the Chinese government ...
Tags: Breast Binding, Bikinis
The full decade of the Cultural Revolution movement from 1966 to 1976 saw China's fashion go underground, buried under a sea of grass green army uniforms and Mao suits. But by the end of the year 1976, the winter of fashion discontent was ...
Aganga, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, said he was impressed with the level of investment the firm had made and asked for more investments into the economy. He described the paper packaging facility as unique and the first of ...
Tags: Packaging Firm, Packaging
Tom Duffy Co. retailers touring HomerWood. HomerWood hosted several retailers from the Fairfield, Calif.-based Tom Duffy network. Retailers included Jeff and Wendy Meltzer of Los Angeles-based Universal Hardwood; Jeremy Probell and ...
Tags: HomerWood, Retailers, Decoration
Suzuki has taken the wraps off its compact SUV Vitara at the 2014 Paris Motor Show, which the company claims, has been derived from its other flagship Jimny, Vitara and Grand Vitara. The new car is 1,755mm taller and 4,175mm wider than ...
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Although supply and demand are fluctuating heavily in the global solar market, the market’s preference for high-efficiency products has remained consistent, with Taiwan manufacturers leading the way, according to EnergyTrend, a ...
Tags: Cell Producers, Sloar Cell
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has announced completion of Phase 1 of the Barilla Solar Project in Pecos County, Texas, bringing about 18MWAC of generating capacity to the ...
Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA says that its chairman & CEO David J. Aldrich was named CEO of the Year by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC) during the 2014 Technology Leadership ...
Tags: Skyworks, CEO, Electronics
Wireless heart-monitoring device maker Preventice has merged with eCardio Diagnostics, which makes more traditional remote cardiac monitoring systems. Preventice's BodyGuardian patch, worn on the chest, delivers information to a ...
Tags: Wireless heart-monitoring device, cardiac monitoring systems