Danone has today(27 July)confirmed higher raw material costs hit margins in the first half of 2012,six weeks after surprising the market with a profit warning. The French food giant said trading operating margin fell 61 basis points to ...
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While earnings from marquee-name tech companies such as Apple and Facebook disappointed this week, sales of mobile devices and enterprise software showed signs of growth. The deluge of earnings reports offered mixed news about sales but ...
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Hershey has lifted its forecast for underlying earnings today (26 July) after managing to increase prices more than expected in the first half of 2012. The US confectioner said price increases had boosted margins and, with selling, ...
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For second-quarter 2012,RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro,OR,USA has reported revenue of$178m,down 22%on$228.8m a year ago and down 18%on$216.7m in Q1/2012(exceeding the ...
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For second-quarter 2012,Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford,MA,USA(which designs and supplies analog,digital and mixed-signal RF,microwave and millimeter-wave ICs,modules and subsystems as well as instrumentation)has reported revenue ...
After devastating monsoonal floods in Thailand shut down several of Western Digital's key disk drive plants,drastically hurting its revenue and market standing,WD this week reported record financial results for 2012. According to market ...
Tags: Western Digital, Thailand, disk drive market, ultrabooks
RFMD's quarterly revenue and margins grow,driven by diversified markets For its fiscal first-quarter 2013(to end-June 2012),RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro,NC,USA has reported revenue of$202.7m.This is down 5.4%on$214.2m a year ago but ...
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Taiwan Hon Hai Group has injected US$35 million to set up an LED venture in mainland China at a cost of US$35 million. And it’s reported that polysilicon manufacturer GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd. of mainland China is also a strategic ...
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Quarterly earnings from some of the biggest tech companies in the world this week were decidedly mixed,but showed some signs of strength,particularly in enterprise IT spending. Tech vendors with exposure to the hardware market have ...
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Google has reported a 10%increase in net income in the second quarter of 2012,reaching$2.79bn,compared to$2.51bn in the same period last year. Revenue from the UK was$1.18bn,representing 11%of Google sales.Total revenue was$12.21bn,up ...
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For its fiscal third-quarter 2012(ending 29 June),Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn,MA,USA(which manufactures linear products,power amplifiers,front-end modules and radio solutions for handset and infrastructure equipment)has reported ...
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In the first half of 2012, faced with the complicated and volatile economic environment at home and abroad, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council committed to the general tone of progressing steadily, correctly handled the ...
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Advanced Photonix gets first industrial THz order 11 Jul 2012 Receives first orders from its value-added reseller,Thermo Fisher Scientific,for its'T-Gauge'industrial terahertz gauging system. Advanced Photonix develops diverse silicon ...
Tags: Advanced Photonix, T-Gauge, industrial terahertz, measurement systems
LDK Solar(LDK),a China-based vertically integrated solar firm,has reported its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31,2012. The firm reported net sales for the first quarter of fiscal 2012 were US$200.1 ...
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China has become a big producer of welding and cutting equipment. In 2010, the market size of welding and cutting equipments in China reached RMB22.3 billion, with RMB7 billion attributable to inverter welding and cutting equipment, the ...