Glass for Europe is the trade association for Europe’s manufacturers of flat glass. Flat glass is the material that goes into a variety of end products and primarily in windows and facades for buildings, windscreens and windows for ...
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Investors took a record high for US stocks - the bellwether Dow Jones Industrial Index eclipsing its pre-global financial crisis peak - as confirmation that the US economic recovery is gathering strength and sent the local market to its ...
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In the 2012 financial year the flooring group Tarkett increased its turnover by 11% to €2.318bn. Organic growth (+4.6%), acquisitions (+3.6%) and favourable exchange rate influences (+2.8%) constituted some of the reasons for the ...
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Even though PC giants Hewlett-Packard and Dell reported significant year-over-year sales declines, tech stocks, buoyed by signs of confidence from other IT vendors, started to rise again Friday after slumping for most of the week. Vendors ...
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In February this year, the China HSBC Flash Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) decreased to 50.4, indicating a four-month low and comparing to the final value of 52.3 recorded in January, as announced by the HSBC. The new ...
Despite PC giants HP and Dell reporting significant year-over-year sales declines, tech stocks, buoyed by signs of confidence from other IT vendors, began to rise again Friday after slumping for most of the week. Vendors in diverse ...
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The sharemarket partially reversed its big sell-off with a solid finish after the Reserve Bank's positive comments about the economy. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed up 38 points, or 0.76 per cent, at 5018.1 points today, while the ...
Indian textile and garment industry, a key player in the national economy and the second largest employer of skilled and unskilled workers after agriculture, is on a revival track due to increase in demand of yarns, fabrics and clothing ...
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According to the Metal Industry Indicators report released by the US Geological Survey (USGS), the US economic recovery has supported domestic primary metals industry activity with modest metals demand from the manufacturing and ...
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Net income in Q4 2012 shrank for global pipe and tube producer Tenaris but full year earnings improved. Q4 net income of $350.3 million was down 20 percent from $437.5 million in Q3 2012 and down 18 percent from $426.3 percent in Q4 2011. ...
Spring Fair International, organised by i2i Events, opened on February 3rd 2013 at the NEC and welcomed over 68,116 visitor’s, including more than 5,000 international buyers looking to export British goods abroad - with overall ...
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Korea Gas Corporation, the world's single-largest buyer of LNG, has stepped up efforts to sell part of its stake in Australia's Gladstone LNG project, a company official told Platts Friday. The South Korean state-owned company has ...
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As an indicator of the continued economic recovery of the material handling, supply chain and logistics industry, U.S. and international attendees registered in record numbers for ProMat 2013—the premier North American manufacturing ...
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Irrespective of the continued global economic slowdown, the luxury market in India is pegged to grow at 25% in 2013 till 2015 and likely to touch US$ 15 billion from the current level of US$ 8 billion, reveals the ASSOCHAM-Yes Bank study. ...
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Output in the European Union (EU) mechanical engineering sector fell 2.8 percent year on year in the third quarter of 2012 and a further drop of around two percent year on year is projected for the final quarter of the year, said the ...
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