Sports Direct International plc , the UK's leading sports retailer, reported Group sales for the 13 weeks ended July 27 were up 12.2 percent to ?11.2 million ($1.21 bn) compared with ?34.0 millon a year earlier. Gross profit increased 11.8 ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
LED maker Changelight Co Ltd of Xiamen, China plans to issue 6.07 million stocks to raise a total of RMB800m ($130.39m) in financing in order to expand its production of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LED epitaxial wafers, according to ...
A manifold hike in interest expense, pushed NASDAQ-listed and apparel and home décor retailer Gordmans Stores Inc to report a net loss in the second fiscal quarter ended August 2, 2104 compared to net profit, a year earlier. ...
Tags: home décor, Retailer Gordmans, Apparel
Led by a decline of 9% in US sales, net sales at NYSE-listed apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co slipped 6% year on year in the thirteen weeks to August 2, 2014. In the second fiscal quarter of 2014, revenues at Abercrombie & Fitch ...
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Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang) has announced that in the first half of the current year it registered an operating revenue of RMB 14.672 billion ($2.38 billion), down 23.70 percent year on year, ...
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In the January-July period of the current year, China's crude steel output amounted to 480.76 million mt, up 2.7 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on August 25. The growth rate ...
Tags: China's Crude Steel, Output, Metallurgy
Shanghai-based Chinese steelmaker Baoshan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd (Baosteel) has issued its financial report for the first half of the current year, stating that in the given period it achieved an operating revenue of RMB 97.598 billion ...
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Revenues rose marginally by 1.8 percent at China-based sportswear marketer Xtep International Holdings Limited for six months ending June 30, 2014. At a press conference attended by Ding Shui Po and Terry Ho, CEO and CFO, respectively at ...
Apparels and home fashions off-price retailer, NYSE-listed The TJX Companies, Inc reported a 7% year-on-year hike in net sales to touch $6.9 billion in the second quarter ended August 2, 2014. Consolidated comparable store sales increased ...
Tough market conditions led to Swedish fashion retailer – Bjorn Borg, a marketer of innerwear and sportswear, witnessing decline across all key financial parameters including sales, net profit and EPS in the second quarter of 2014. ...
Tags: Tough market, Bjorn Borg, Apparel
Armstrong World Industries has released its second quarter results. Second Quarter Results from Continuing Operations Consolidated net sales increased slightly to $710.0 million compared to $706.6 in 2013 driven by favorable price and ...
Tags: Armstrong, Report, Construction
For its fiscal first-quarter 2015 (to 28 June 2014), RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has reported record revenue of $316.3m, up 23.6% on $256m last quarter and up 8% on $293m a year ago (and well above the $305m forecast at the ...
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Driven by strong performances at its Anthropologie and Free People brands, NASDAQ-listed Urban Outfitters, Inc., a garment retailer was able to post record sales in the fiscal quarter ending July 31, 2014. Net sales for the second quarter ...
Tags: Urban Outfitters, Sales, Apparel
Carpetright plc has announced an update on trading for the 13 weeks ending 26th July 2014. Like-for-like sales in the UK increased by 6.1%, while total sales increased by 5.2%. During the period, four stores were opened and nine closed. ...
Tags: Carpetright, Furniture, Furnishing
Ferro Corporation (NYSE: FOE, the “Company”) today reported results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014. Second quarter diluted earnings per share attributable to common shareholders was $0.11, compared with a loss of ...
Tags: Ferro, Electrical, Electronics