Marks & Spencer's (M&S's) food business delivered a "commendable" performance for the 26 weeks to September 28, according to City analysts M&S's food business delivered 'a commendable performance', said City analyst Shore Capital Shore ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
North America is the world's largest consumer of packaging. Since a brief dip in 2009, the North American packaging market has recently been growing steadily. Although market sentiment is still cautious in the region, the North American ...
Tags: Packaging Market, Packaging, Printing
In either a cautious or a more aggressive scenario, LED applications will be the key drivers for the bulk gallium nitride (GaN) market, reckons market research firm Yole Développement in its report 'Free-Standing & Bulk GaN ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics
Solvay announces that it has successfully launched a hybrid bond issue worth 1.2 billion €, to further strengthen the Groups balance sheet. The hybrid bond issue is split across two perpetual tranches: A first tranche of 700 ...
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Farm equipment manufacturers report strong sales heading into the fourth quarter of 2013. According to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers' latest report (issued in August), U.S. unit retail sales showed double-digit growth in most ...
Tags: Farm Machinery, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Farm equipment
The National Energy Administration announced new guidelines for shale gas on Wednesday that aim to increase output of the fuel and thus improve China's energy security. The NEA's guidelines encourage local governments to subsidize shale ...
Tags: Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Equipment demand for the production of LCD panels is unlikely to pick up in the short term, as an oversupplied market is discouraging panel makers from expanding capacity and making major equipment upgrades, according to sources at LCD ...
Tags: LCD Panels, LCD Equipment
The production of multicrystalline-silicon (c-Si) solar photovoltaic (PV) modules is set to dominate PV manufacturing during 2014, with p-type multi c-Si technology accounting for 62% of all modules produced, according to Solarbuzz. Solar ...
Tags: Solar PV Industry, Silicon Modules
The outlook for the European steel market next year is for a cautious recovery from a low level, according to Jeroen Vermeij, director of market analysis and economic studies at European steel producers' association Eurofer. Speaking at ...
Tags: Apparent Steel, steel market
Japan's stocks of liquefied petroleum gas rose 4.69% month on month to 2.145 million mt as of September 30, marking the fourth straight month of increase as imports inched up to meet utility demand ahead of winter, data from the Japan LPGas ...
Tags: LPG Stocks, liquefied petroleum
The European Union has started implementing a tough new safety regulation on biocides in coatings and other applications that is likely to result in the withdrawal from the European market of large numbers of coatings chemicals for dealing ...
Tags: Construction, coating, coatings chemicals
Cabela's Incorporated reported strong financial results for third quarter fiscal 2013. Highlights: - Third Quarter Diluted EPS Increased 16.7% to $0.70 vs. $0.60 a Year Ago - Total Revenue Increased 14.8% to $850.8 Million - Third ...
Bunnings has once again proved the star performer in the Wesfarmers stable, as the company expressed cautious optimism for the coming year. Announcing Wesfarmers' retail sales results for the first quarter of the 2014 financial year, ...
British Retail Consortium released its UK statistical data related to the retail sector. Summary - Footfall in September was 2.4% lower than a year ago, down on the 0.9% fall in August. This compares with particularly strong figures a ...
Tags: retail sector
Faced with continued economic uncertainty and used to doing more with less, consumers will take a conservative approach to spending this holiday season. According to NRF’s holiday consumer spending survey conducted by Prosper Insights ...
Tags: Gift Budgets, Apparel