US based food processing products provider Hamilton Beach Brands has acquired Weston Products from Highgate Capital. With this acquisition, Hamilton Beach will gain access to the growing hunting, wild game processing, specialty food ...
Tags: hunting, wild game, housewares industries, Agriculture
Driven by UK sales but let down by international sales, online fashion retailer, ASOS managed to post a sales growth of 8 per cent year on year in the three months ending November 30, 2014. Although international sales dropped by 2 per ...
Tags: online fashion retailer, trading, Apparel
NYSE listed clothing retailer, Delta Apparel said its net sales dropped 6.23 per cent from the previous fiscal year for the fiscal year ended September 27, 2014. Net sales slipped $452.9 million for fiscal 2104 as against $483.0 million ...
Tags: strategic initiatives, Apparel
Footfall in November was 2.4% down on a year ago, down on the 0.8% fall in October and below the three-month average of a 1.4% decline, reports the latest BRC/Springboard Footfall Monitor, which covers the four weeks to 29th November 2014. ...
Tags: Footfall, free car parking, Furniture
Diamond manufacturers are entering an era of fierce competition as the looming decline in rough diamond supply is expected to place additional pressure on their already razor-thin profit margins. Manufacturer always operates with a ...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released its air cargo report and outlook. Air freight volumes continue to show solid gains on a year ago, supported by improving growth in trade in some regions, but weakness in load ...
Tags: load factors, yields, Service
Fox Factory Holding Corp. entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of the Race Face and Easton Cycling businesses, formerly Race Face Performance Products, Inc. and 0999324 B.C. Ltd. Race Face/Easton ...
Tags: Cycling, Sporting Goods
Welspun India Limited (WIL), part of the US$ 3 billion Welspun Group, has unveiled its new spinning facility at Anjar in Gujarat, which is India’s largest spinning facility under one roof. The new, world-class facility was ...
Tags: Spinning Facility, yarn, Textile
Johnson Outdoors Inc. reported sales increased 10 percent to $84.9 million in the fourth quarter ended Oct. 3 compared with $77.3 million in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2013 due to double-digit growth in both Marine Electronics and Outdoor ...
Specialty retailer of West Coast inspired apparel & footwear, Tilly’s said in the third fiscal quarter ended November 1, 2014, its net sales dropped 6 per cent from a year ago quarter. In the thirteen weeks period to November 1, ...
Tags: apparel retailer, footwear, Apparel
For the thirteen weeks period ended November 1, 2014, net loss at clothing retailer Aeropostale more than doubled year on year as a result of huge amount of after tax charges. The retailer reported a net loss for the third quarter of 2014 ...
Tags: Clothing Retailer, tax charges, Apparel
This was supposed to be the diamond decade. Back in 2010, De Beers executives were touting that the coming 10 years would bring unprecedented demand and growth to the industry. Almost halfway through, it feels anything but, especially for ...
Tags: Diamond Decade, diamond dealers
Tilly’s, Inc. reported third-quarter earnings slid 16.4 percent to $5.1 million, or 18 cents per share as selling, general and administrative costs grew 15.4 percent, or more than twice as fast as net sales, which grew 6.1 percent. ...
Tags: Tilly, Expenses, Sales, Sporting Goods
Profitability for LED products is shrinking due to continual price drops along with increasing competition, and more than 100 relatively small China-based LED packaging service providers will be forced out of the market in 2014 and the ...
Tags: LED Packaging, LED products
Ratos has signed an agreement to acquire approximately 67% of the shares in the Finnish LED optics company Ledil Oy from the company's founders. The purchase price (enterprise value) for 100% of the company amounts to EUR 97m, of which ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED optics company, Lights