Packaging Corporation of America has reported first quarter 2017 net income of $117m or $1.24 per share and $1.27 per share excluding special items. First quarter net sales were $1.5 billion in 2017 and $1.4 billion in 2016. Reported ...
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The first purported images of Fitbit’s delayed smartwatch and wireless headphones have appeared online. Yahoo Finance published renders on Monday showing a retro design with an aluminum unibody surrounding a large, square, colour ...
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Hain Frozen Foods UK, a subsidiary of The Hain Celestial Group, has acquired England-based soup manufacturer The Yorkshire Provender for an undisclosed price. The acquisition is expected to help the US-based Hain Celestial to expand its ...
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Taiwan's LCD monitor shipments dropped 6.2% on year to reach below 20 million units in the first quarter of 2017, while worldwide shipments also experienced a similar decline of 6.8% on year. For the second quarter, Taiwan's volume will ...
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Vodafone is hitting some customers with a second price hike, just weeks after another rise was introduced. The news was first reported by the Financial Times, which claimed that some customers have received texts warning of an unexpected ...
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Jakks Pacific has detailed its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31th, 2017, citing a decline in net sales. The toy giant revealed that net sales were $94.5 million compared to $95.8 million reported in the comparable ...
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Samsung impressed at CES 2017 with a lineup of ne QLED TVs which make use of the company's proprietary Quantum Dot-based technology. QLED, a variation on the quantum-dot TV technology on Samsung's 2016 SUHD range, has remained a ...
Finnish paper and pulp firm Metsa Board has invested €38m in a new extrusion coating line at its paper mill in northern Sweden. The new line at the company’s Husum mill is now producing initial orders. It has an annual capacity ...
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TreeHouse Foods has agreed to sell its Soup and Infant Feeding (SIF) business to Riverbend Foods, a newly founded portfolio company of Insight Equity. The SIF business is based in Pittsburgh, Pa. and is a leading manufacturer of private ...
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A phenomenon described by one expert at “screen fatigue” could be to blame for declining ebook sales, as printed books see a significant jump in revenue. The Publishers Association has released new figures that reveal a stark ...
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For first-quarter 2017, Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has reported revenue of €9.2m, up dramatically from €1.4m a year ago. ...
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Cree, Inc. on Tuesday reported financial results for its third quarter of fiscal 2017, ended March 26, 2017, which missed Wall Street expectations. Shares of Cree declined over 7% in after-hours trade. Revenue for the quarter was ...
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Drinks giant Heineken reported an organic rise in beer volumes of 0.5% in Europe and 5.4% in Asia Pacific in the first quarter of this year. The increase in sales was unexpected for this year’s first quarter and it was more than the ...
Icelandic Group has confirmed its intentions to divest its UK operations, Seachill, which supplies chilled fish to the country's retail market. The company's board has decided to start a sale process for Seachill, which had sales of ...
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On April 19th, JAC World Truck strategy was released in Auto Shanghai, and meanwhile the first model of JAC World Truck-N series announced its global launch into the market. JAC World Truck is China initiative world-class truck strategy ...
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