Semiconductor materials suppliers expect demand for high-end packaging to remain strong and buoy their sales in the fourth quarter of 2014. Ampoc Fareast and Niching Industrial have both indicated clear order visibility through the end of ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Packaging
This year’s gradually improving business outlook looks set to continue into 2015, with the latest survey of Australian firms revealing that an increasing number expect to lift their sales and profits, sell their goods and services at ...
Thoratec Corp. has replaced CEO Gary Burbach with the man who previously led the company for a decade. New president and CEO Keith Grossman served in those roles at the Pleasanton, CA–based company from 1996 to 2006, when Burbach ...
In its interim results for the first six months ending July 31, 2014, UK-based fashion retailer NEXT said it had a good first half, achieving sales and profits ahead of its original expectations. Led primarily by retail stores sales ...
Tags: Apparel, Fashion Apparel
Engine manufacturer Cummins made seven percent more money in the second quarter of 2014 than in the same quarter last year, due in part to higher on-highway demand in North America, the company reported. Cummins posted revenues of $4.8 ...
Tags: Cummins, Engine manufacturer, Engine
Apparel retailer Uniqlo announces sales results for the month of July 2014. For July 2014 same-store sales decreased by 4.8% year on year while sales at our own stores decreased by 2.9%. Total sales including online sales decreased by 2.5%. ...
Tags: Apparel
Dow Corning Corp. today announced sales of $3.02 billion, an increase of 12 percent over 2013, and net income of $300 million. Adjusted net income in the first half of 2014 was $209 million, an increase of 20 percent compared with the first ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The first half of 2014 is drawing to a close but the wait continues for a strong economic upturn that would globally spark sustainable sales growth in the high-tech industry. So far, what many industry observers and economists can point ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, High-Tech Industry
Foot Locker, Inc. reported net income for the company's first quarter ended May 3, was $162 million, or $1.10 per share, compared with net income of $138 million, or 90 cents per share, last year. Wall Street's consensus estimate had been ...
Tags: Foot Locker, gross margin
Uniqlo announces sales for the month of April for 2014. April 2014 same-store sales increased by 3.3% year on year while sales at our own stores increased by 6.7%. Total sales including online sales increased by 7.0%. Same-store sales ...
Tags: Apparel Retailer, Uniqlo
Even in a quarter that saw no product introductions, Apple boosted its sales and profits over the previous year. The company released its fiscal second-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, reporting revenue of $45.6 billion and a net ...
Tags: Apple, Computer Products, IT, Consumer Electronics
Accell Group N.V. told its shareholders Thursday that sales and profits improved in the first months of 2014 compared with the same period of 2013 as favorable weather in Europe stimulated sales of its bicycles. "We have seen a positive ...
Tags: sports bikes, bike, Sporting Goods, Recreation
European coatings companies have been hoping that this year would bring a revival in their domestic markets as the European Union economies, particularly those in the eurozone, started to show signs of recovery around mid-2013. But the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coating
The well-known story of Corning Inc.’s unsuccessful foray into the automotive glass market in the 1960s may have a happy ending sooner than you think. The Fortune 500 company’s development of a superior auto windshield using a ...
Tags: Gorilla Glass, Auto Industry
The January 2014 Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) Survey of Investor Confidence reveals that despite some positive trends, such as sales and profitability continuing to rise off of a low base through the December quarter, ...
Tags: Service