J. C. Penney Company, Inc. announced financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full year ended Feb. 1, 2014. For the fourth quarter, JCPenney reported net sales of $3.78 billion compared to $3.88 billion in the fourth quarter ...
Tags: JCPenney, Apparel, Gross Margins
Vivitar today unveiled its new Camelio TV, the world's first customizable TV companion device that turns any HDTV into a "big screen" family-friendly Android tablet that's customizable with a range of themes and characters via Camelio ...
Tags: Camelio TV, HDTV
Sales of optical splitters, fiber sensors set for significant growth 27 Feb 2014 FTTH deployment dominates the PLC splitter market, while military and aerospace still taking lion’s share of sensors. The FTTH market is a great ...
Tags: Optical Splitters, Fiber Sensors
Members of the British Retail Consortium have set themselves an ambitious target of reducing energy-related building emissions by 50 per cent by 2020. The cut, compared to a 2005 baseline, follows BRC members beating their previous target ...
Tags: energy-related building emissions, Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme
On February 26, Shanghai-based Chinese steel gaint Baosteel Group announced that Xinjiang-based steel producer Nanjiang Steel Baicheng Co. put its coke oven No. 2 into operation on February 24. Nanjiang Steel Baicheng is wholly owned by ...
Tags: Nanjiang Steel, Mineral
A small band of upstarts is chipping away at Google's mighty Android, hoping one day to overthrow the system that runs eight in 10 smartphones sold worldwide. Mozilla's Firefox OS and the Samsung-promoted Tizen staked a small claim to the ...
Tags: smart watches, Google's popular platform, smart devices
Emerging countries’ extensive power plant capacity additions, economic growth and the need to improve access to electricity, will see the global power transformer market increase from $10.3 billion in 2013 to $19.7 billion in 2020, at ...
Annual inflation in the euro area was 0.8 percent in January this year, remaining unchanged compared to December, according to a report released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities. In January 2013, the annual ...
Tags: Annual Inflation, Mineral
CaféPod entered the annual Marketing 4 Start-Up Britain event where it was chosen by WDMP, who will act as a mentor, providing them with marketing expertise, strategy guidance and support on a pro bono basis. CaféPod roasts ...
Tags: Coffee Capsules, CaféPod
Nampak, producer of plastic milk bottles, commissioned the survey which found that 316,054 tonnes of plastic bottles were collected for recycling in 2012, and of those, 96,396 tonnes were HDPE milk bottles. Steve Morgan, technical manager ...
Tags: Milk Industry, Recycling Practice
SIMTEC Silicone Parts, a custom manufacturer of Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) parts and high-precision LSR 2-Shot components, has announced a new production partnership with a global healthcare leader. SIMTEC will begin production in 2014 ...
Tags: new production partnership, LSR component program, infrastructure
China-based steel manufacturing and trading group Delong Holdings Ltd has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Delong Steel Singapore Projects Pte. Ltd. (DSL) has entered into a joint venture agreement with three Thai-based companies, ...
Tags: new steel mill, carbon structural steel, production capacity
FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc., will be showing several new technologies at the 2014 annual meeting of the Healthcare Informatics Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference and exhibit in Orlando, FL from February 23-27, 2014. ...
Tags: FUJIFILM, HIMSS, Healthcare Technology, Synapse
The past week has seen the equivalent of the total world’s annual coffee product traded in a five-day period, creating panic buying. Origin producers have also begun withdrawing from the market in anticipation of higher prices ...
Food and beverage company Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) has announced a net profit after tax of $502.8 million, before significant items. Net profit after tax (including significant items) decreased by 82.5 per cent to $79.9 million for the twelve ...
Tags: operating cost structure, Results Decline, Capital Expenditure