Adidas AG delivers exceptional fourth quarter results. “We finished 2013 with an exceptionally strong fourth quarter. Currency-neutral sales grew 12%, which was above our expectations,” commented Herbert Hainer, adidas Group ...
Emerging markets growth is imminent. "Global trade management will mature as a critical capability in managing growth in emerging markets," according to research and recently released Predictions for 2014 by IDC Manufacturing Insight. ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
The iPad has been the king of?tablets?for a number of years but?Android?has taken top spot, according to new figures. Research firm Gartner has released its research on the tablet market which states a whopping 195.4 million tablets were ...
A key gauge of China’s manufacturing activity fell again in February as companies are becoming increasingly cautious about future business conditions amid sluggish demand both at home and abroad. The official Purchasing ...
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"The result for the first half of the financial year reflected solid growth in emerging markets, ongoing operating improvements and the benefits from recent acquisitions. Earnings per share, for the continuing operations, increased 22% to ...
Tags: Packaging&Printing, Amcor
By design, Nokia's new Android smartphones will underwhelm users of high-end phones. The Nokia X line was created with emerging markets in mind, so the company emphasized keeping prices low, meaning the user interface is relatively simple. ...
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Luxottica said it set a new net sales record of more than €7.3 billion in 2013, an increase of 7.5 percent in currency-neutral (c-n) terms and 3.2 percent at current exchange rates compared to 2012. ADVERTISEMENT The Italian ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, eyewear
Qiagen has announced the commercial launch in India of its careHPV test, the only molecular diagnostic for high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) designed to screen women in settings with limited healthcare infrastructure, such as areas ...
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Sanuk, a division of Deckers Outdoor Corporation announced that industry leader Ethan Anderson has joined Sanuk as Global Vice President of Marketing. He brings more than 20 years of expertise in driving strategic brand growth for modern ...
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The 30 largest engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies in the global photovoltaic (PV) industry installed 30% of the world's non-residential PV capacity in 2013, up 5pp from 2012, according to IHS. "We see integrators in ...
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
Nokia is targeting emerging markets with three low-cost smartphones that use Google's Android operating system rather than the Windows Phone software from Microsoft, which is about to take over Nokia's handset business. Nokia will ditch ...
(AP)—Sony is borrowing innovations from its audio and camcorder businesses and incorporating its new Xperia Z2 smartphone with noise-cancelling technology and ultra-high-definition video recording. Noise cancellation works with an ...
(AP)—Sony unveiled a new waterproof phone that can take ultra-high-definition video. Nokia introduced three Android smartphones aimed at emerging markets. And Lenovo announced one with an all-glass exterior. Yet most of the ...
At the 2014 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain (24–27 February), analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA has introduced a suite of products targeting low-cost smartphones for emerging, high-growth ...
Tags: low-cost smartphones, high-growth markets, high-performance products