Volvo Cars has unveiled two new concept cars that move the Swedish brand in an audacious new direction and mark the official launch of its global small car strategy. Today's newly-revealed 40 series concepts demonstrate for the first time ...
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China will continue to offer potential for high growth to coffee beverage players, experts said. For, new consumers are being continually attracted to support the ready-to-drink or RTD coffee and coffee pod machines, they said. Hope ...
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For first-quarter 2016, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $4.3m, down on $8.9m a year ago ...
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For its fiscal third-quarter 2016 (to 26 March), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $101.1m, up 7.4% on $94.1m last quarter (a third ...
For first-quarter 2016, NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA (a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks) has reported ...
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For full-year 2015, Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has reported revenue of €12.8m, down 23% on 2014's €16.6m. This is due ...
Demand of LED has resumed in the second quarter. Leading Taiwanese LED chip maker Epistar reached full production capacity in AlGaInP LEDs. Meanwhile, Unity Opto is expected to see two-digit growth in the second quarter as its order ...
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China Shenhua Energy Company Limited, the nation's top coal producer, has said its net profits plummeted 28.3 percent year on year to 4.74 billion yuan (734 million U.S. dollars) in the first quarter of 2016. Shenhua, a State-owned ...
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Business activity in China's non-manufacturing sector expanded at slower pace in April, official data showed on Sunday. The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the non-manufacturing sector stood at 53.5 in April, down from 53.8 in March ...
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Profits of China's major industrial firms rose 11.1 percent year on year in March, widening from a 4.8 percent growth in the Jan.-Feb. period, official data showed on Wednesday. The profits of major industrial companies with annual ...
Cobra Electronics, which rose to prominence with the CB Radio craze in the 1970s, has entered the action sport camera game by acquiring WASPcam, which distributes affordable, high-performance HD action-sports cameras and accessories to ...
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Levi Strauss & Co. elected former CEO of L.L.Bean Inc., Christopher McCormick, to its board of directors, effective April 13, 2016. “As we work to accelerate profitable growth, we are expanding the board's expertise in the fastest ...
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Despite a dip in results during March, the April edition of the Stifel Logistics Confidence Index returned to the trend of month on month improvements seen in January and February. Nonetheless, structural issues within both the air and ...
China collected 2.98 trillion yuan ($458 billion) in taxes in the first quarter of 2016, up 9.8 percent year on year, data from the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) showed on Wednesday. Tax collected from tertiary industry rose 12 ...
Bass Pro Shop and Goldman Sachs' private equity arm were partnering on a bid for Cabela's, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. On Tuesday, shares of Cabela's rose $3.14, or 6.4 percent, to $52.51 on the news. Goldman will ...
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