China's telecoms regulator has recently added a touch of clarity to the confusion surrounding the future technological direction of the country's mobile market – a touch and nothing more. After months of speculation on when the ...
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The group also posted a 60% rise in underlying earnings per share (EPS) to €49.4 cents for the six months ended June 2013. Group revenue rose to €3.342bn from €2.819bn. Underlying operating profit was 35% higher at ...
Fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA says that, on the basis of preliminary financial results, it expects to report revenue of about $266m for its fiscal first-quarter 2014 (ended 28 ...
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Apollo Tyres Ltd. posted net income of more than 1.6 billion rupees on net sales of 31.9 billion rupees for the first quarter of its fiscal 2014 ended June 30, 2013. That compares to income of 1.4 billion rupees on sales of 31.6 billion ...
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Royal DSM, the Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, reported a second quarter EBITDA of €345 million compared to €290 million in Q2 2012 and €311 million in Q1 2013. The improvement compared to Q2 2012 was realized ...
The retail arm of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Reliance Retail is growing at a high speed. This year, it has already crossed revenues of Rs 10,800 crore and achieved a break-even with an EBITA of Rs 78 crore. It is an achievement for ...
Checkpoint Systems, Inc. reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013. Second Quarter GAAP Results: Net revenues from continuing operations in the second quarter of 2013 decreased 3.1%, 2.5% on a constant dollar ...
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PolyOne Corporation reported $1,038 million of revenue for the second quarter of 2013, a 37% increase compared to $757 million in the second quarter of 2012. Diluted earnings per share from continuing operations totaled $0.39 in the ...
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The expected price hike in electricity rates is expected to hit the profitability, though very marginally, of those cement companies that solely rely on the national grid power and do not have Waste Heat (WH) technology, compared to those ...
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Business confidence levels are showing signs of stabilising, with the year-end outlook for profits, sales, employment and capital investment beginning to level out. After declining through much of the year, initial expectations for the ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported selected financial metrics and business highlights for second-quarter 2013 (excluding revenue and earnings, due to the firm's ongoing ...
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ArcelorMittal, the world's largest manufacturer of steel announced a huge second quarter loss. The Luxembourg based steelmaker reportedly recorded a second quarter loss of US$780 million, taking losses incurred by the company thus far ...
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Garmin is reporting strong fitness sales in its second quarter and said its long-anticipated Vector power meter is now in "mass production and will be delivered to retailers soon." The Vector, a pedal-based system, has been delayed ...
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BASF increased sales by 3% in the second quarter of 2013 to just under €18.4 billion thanks to higher sales volumes in all segments. Income from operations (EBIT) before special items decreased by 5% to around €1.8 billion. In the ...
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Editor's note: This blog post was written by Fred Clements, Executive Director of the National Bicycle Dealers Association. Clements' previous blogs can be read on bikedealerblog. Amazon recently announced it will add 5,000 jobs at ...
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