Qassim Cement Co increased net profits by 1.46% in 2012 to $149.6m. The company, which is based in the city of Buraydah, said that net profits for the fourth quarter of the year dipped by 2.1%, however, to $38.1m. It blamed this on the ...
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Despite record low temperatures in China, the country's gas companies say they expect to be able to cope with increased winter gas demand in the coming weeks. Sinopec said Tuesday on its website that it had been implementing several ...
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Feng Hsin,one of the major electric furnace mills in Taiwan,has announced its pre-tax earnings in whole 2012 totaled NT$1.893 billion,lower than the results in 2011. The company said its total sales volumes in whole 2012remained flat but ...
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Portland, Oregon-based Schnitzer Steel Industries reported Tuesday adjusted operating income of $3 million and a loss per share of $0.02 for its fiscal 2013 Q1 ended November 30, 2012. During Q1, export and domestic sales prices for ...
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More frugal consumers are evolving the way they shop in response to the austere economic environment, Sainsbury's CEO Justin King has suggested. Sainsbury's booked a 0.9% increase in third-quarter like-for-like sales excluding fuel this ...
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(Muscat, Oman) -- On the back of increased government spending on infrastructure and mega projects, demand for cement is expected to grow at higher pace this year. In the Oman budget for 2013, RO 600 million has been earmarked for roads ...
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Sainsbury's today (9 January) reported that third-quarter like-for-like sales, excluding fuel, came in at 0.9%. While this represents a slow-down from the company's previous 31 consecutive quarters of growth, Sainsbury's was able to ...
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Sales growth lower than 2011; Toys suffer at the hands of electronic goods and tablets, says BRC. This December UK retail sales were up only 0.3 per cent like-for-like, versus a 2.2 per cent like-for-like growth in December 2011. Total ...
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Chung Hung Steel, one of the major carbon flat re-rolling mills and the subsidiary of Taiwan's China Steel Corp. (CSC), has announced that its sales revenues in December totaled NT$4.005 billion, rising by 28.2% from a month ago. In ...
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Swiss meat processing company Bell Group said it saw "stable" sales development in 2012, despite a "difficult" market environment. In the 12 month period, sales edged up 0.4% to CHF2.52bn (US$3.29bn), the company reported today (7 ...
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Kumba final results for the year ended 31 December 2011.Record safety,exports,earnings and dividends. Commenting on the results,Kumba Iron Ore("Kumba")CEO Chris Griffith said:"Driven by export volume growth and a 26%increase in iron ...
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JFE Shoji Trade Corporation announced that the integration of JFE Shoji Usuitakenzai Corporation,whose main market is in East Japan and JFE Seibu Usuitakenzai Corporation,whose main market is in West Japan,has been decided to establish more ...
Turkish integrated long steel producer Kardemir Karabuk Demir Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret AS(Kardemir)has announced its planned sales volumes of rebar,billet and bloom,beams and pig iron for the January to March period of 2013. According to ...
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The German Steel Federation predicted that the German steel industry’s steel sales volumes would slide by 4% to 42.50 million tons in 2012, due to lower demand caused by decreased investments in automobile and equipment manufacturing ...
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Metinvest BV the parent company of the international vertically integrated steel and mining group of companies published a trading update for the nine months of 2012 ended 30 September, 2012. 9 moths 2012 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS 1. ...
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