Australian port and rail company Asciano Wednesday posted a 41.2% year-on-year rise in net profit to A$342 million ($311 million) for the fiscal year to June 30, due in part to new rail contracts to haul coal in the state of Queensland and ...
Tags: Coal, Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Australian mining company BHP Billiton has announced its financial results for the year ended June 30 this year. According to the company's financial statement, BHP Billiton posted a net profit of US$10.9 billion for the financial year ...
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Australian steelmaker BlueScope Steel has posted a net loss of AU$84 million for the 2012-13 financial year ended June 30, down from the net loss of AU$1.04 billion in the previous financial year, primarily reflecting the benefit of the ...
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Woodside Petroleum will recommend Shell's floating LNG technology to its joint venture partners as the best option to develop the Browse project off Western Australia, the company said in a statement Tuesday. "The selection of FLNG as the ...
Tags: Floating LNG, JV Partners
Communication solutions and services provider, Motorola Solutions, has named Steve Crutchfield managing director, Australia and New Zealand. Crutchfield was previously a general manager of Motorola Solutions' Services Delivery ...
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If?Australian companies were to virtualize their severs and physical infrastructure, $6 billion in costs could be saved from now to 2020, according to a new whitepaper by research firm IDC. In the VMware sponsored whitepaper,?Vision 2020: ...
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The 2015 Ford Mustang has been snapped testing on track, revealing the all-new Pony car’s front end for the first time. The spy images give us our best look yet of what to expect from the production version of the new Ford Mustang, ...
The US police car market has opened up following the retirement of the long-serving Ford Crown Victoria, and SUVs are muscling in. Until production ended in 2011, the Ford Crown Victoria – a V8-powered, rear-wheel drive, ...
Tags: Ford, SUVs, Police Fleets
More than 300 diesel-powered Mini Countryman models have been recalled in Australia due to a fault related to the car’s electric power steering unit that could lead to a possible vehicle fire. Affecting 329 R60 Mini Cooper D ...
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BMW is recalling more than 1100 diesel-powered cars in Australia due to an electrical fault that could lead to a vehicle fire. An expansion of a recall campaign announced in 2011 that originally affecting 2000 vehicles, the new recall ...
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With Turkey’s growing domestic market becoming increasingly sophisticated and with the country boasting a strong local manufacturing industry, The Woolmark Company has been investing both time and resources in rebuilding the presence ...
Tags: Merino Wool, Textile
Research sponsored by NetSuite Inc. and the Australian Retailers Association (ARA), has revealed key findings pertaining to the adoption of the internet as a channel for the future success of Australian retailers in 2013, based on a joint ...
Australian general insurer QBE Insurance Group has posted a net profit of $477m for the first half of 2013, a decline of 37% compared to $760m for the same period last year. Underwriting profit grew by 2% to $530m for the first half of ...
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Domestic gold futures still have room to grow following the recent commodities rally, which sent gold, copper and crude oil to multi-month highs last week. The most traded gold contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) rose 1.45 ...
An , IC12, is meeting photographic and digital filmmaking industries demands with the release of a portable and interlocking LED flash and light source - The LED Light Cube - to be crowdfunded on Indiegogo from Tuesday 13th August ...