Uncertainty surrounding total swine herd losses to porcine epidemic diarrhea virus has sent lean hog futures for spring and summer contracts to record-high levels, but it's possible the markets have overreacted, a Purdue Extension ...
Tags: PEDv, Demand for pork, avoid the disease
The world's top 40 medical device companies overall have enjoyed a slight gain in stock price so far this year. But there are exceptions to the rule as well, with reasons ranging from Getinge AB's quality control issues to Terumo Corp.'s ...
Tags: Medical Device, Health, Medicine
In 2013, JAC sold 495,373 various types of vehicles and chassis, with an increase of 6.59 percent. Due to the optimization of product structure, the increase gross margin and other reasons, the company's profit growth is significantly ...
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The CEO of Ecco said the family-owned Danish shoemaker was able to increase operating margins in 2013 despite rapidly growing leather and labor costs and production constraints related to a fire a 2011 fire that destroyed its factory in ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Competitor Group, Inc., named David Abeles as chief executive officer, effective immediately. Additionally, Barrett Garrison has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer and Keith Kendrick has been permanently appointed Chief Marketing ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
For its fiscal third-quarter 2014 (ended 26 January), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported a sixth consecutive quarter of revenue growth, to a record $294m. This is up 1.1% ...
Following the boom in expansion of the Chinese LED market in 2011, many industry insiders and analysts speculated on whether China would be able to sustain the growth, or if many companies simply ordered an excessive amount of metal-organic ...
Tags: LED market, LED industry
Nike, Inc., hrough its strategic partnerships team, has taken a minority investment in California-based start-up Reflektion, an innovator in online retail predictive analytics. Reflektion announced this week it has secured Series B round ...
Tags: Nike, online, Minority Stake
In 2013, European stainless crude steel production decreased by four percent to 7.45 million metric tons, with German production decreased by 17 percent, Sweden's production fell two percent and Slovenia's production up 11 percent, all ...
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Shipments of new personal computers, most of them equipped with Microsoft Windows, will face greater declines in 2014 than earlier anticipated, IDC said Tuesday. IDC said that PC shipments will drop by 6% from 2013 to approximately 296 ...
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Epistar, the largest Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker, had February consolidated revenues of NT$1.982 billion (US$65.4 million) increasing by 4.95% on month and by 57.48% on year, while the largest Taiwan-based LED packaging ...
John Lewis Partnership plc announces Unaudited results for 52 weeks to 25 January 2014. Financial Highlights -Gross sales exceed £10bn for the Partnership, £6bn for Waitrose and £4bn for John Lewis -Revenue ...
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Dana has introduced two new lightweight Spicer S140 Series axles for medium-duty applications. The company says its Spicer S140 Series drive axles are up to 50 lbs lighter than competitive offerings. They feature Dana's GenTech gearing, ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
L.L.Bean announced a positive close to its 2013 fiscal year. On the basis of the business performance for 2013, the company announced its intent to pay 8% performance bonuses to approximately 5,000 full and part-time employees. ...
Nobilia Achieves Solid Ground Home & Abroad The reputed kitchen furniture manufacturer Nobilia has reportedly raised its sales revenue by an approximate 2.8% in the year 2013 resulting in as much as €923.4m. The domestic sales ...
Tags: Nobilia, kitchen furniture manufacturer, Solid Ground Home&Abroad