In the second quarter of 2013, we generated a profit of $201 million compared to profit of $186 million for the second quarter of 2012. The increase was primarily due to lower finance costs in the second quarter of 2013. For the six ...
Tags: Profits, NOVA Chemicals
On July 8th, the list of 2013 Fortune Global 500 Companies was released. Baosteel was ranked No. 222 with operating revenue of 45,682.7million USD and net profits of 918.8million USD. It had been consecutively ten years that Baosteel was ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
Green packaging manufacturer Cascades has announces that Greenpac Mill manufactured its first roll of lightweight linerboard at its new containerboard mill located in Niagara Falls in the state of New York. Greenpac produces a lightweight ...
Microsoft is aiming to boost sales of its Surface tablet computers as it makes the devices available for business customers via the IT channel. In a blog post, director of Microsoft Surface, Cyril Belikoff, said that the software giant ...
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A total of 328 website domains accused of selling counterfeit goods were shut down by US and European authorities in the latest crackdown on online fraud. US authorities shut down 177 domain names for websites selling counterfeit ...
Tags: Online Fraud, Online Sale Websites
The average bicycle retail store earns annual pre-tax profit of 5.5 percent, but the top 25 percent bring home nearly three times that. Is this really possible? If so, how do they do it? Aggressive marketing? Super staff training? ...
Tags: Bike Stores, Profit
The Cotlook A Index fell to around 90 cents per pound towards the end of May 2013, and the China Cotton Index (Type 328) fell to 19,350 Yuan per ton, or 142 cents per pound, during the same period. Assuming the current Chinese reserve ...
The Cotlook A Index fell to around 90 cents per pound towards the end of May 2013, and the China Cotton Index (Type 328) fell to 19,350 yuan per ton, or 142 cents per pound, during the same period. Assuming the current Chinese reserve ...
With a rise of 6.14 percent, Pakistan's textile exports reached US$ 10.75 billion during the first 10 months of the current fiscal, as compared to exports of US$ 10.13 billion made during the corresponding period of previous fiscal, ...
Tags: Textile
To get an idea of how American coastal waters might look just before they succumb to all the degradations they have suffered these past five centuries, it would be worth taking a July trip to Mobile Bay, an Alabama inlet that feeds into the ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Australian researchers have evaluated a membrane desalination system based on electrodialysis reversal (EDR), for its capacity to remove salt from treated municipal wastewater. The aim is to provide a source of recycled water for ...
Tags: Wastewater Desalination, Horticultural Irrigation, Processing Machinery
The Chinese government has been cutting back on subsidies to manufacturers of LED chips, a reason some companies are blaming for their poor first quarter results. This points to a change in approach to policies over the once-hyped sector ...
Tags: LED industry, LED Sector, LED
China's gross domestic product (GDP) indicated a year-on-year increase of 7.7 percent to RMB 11.8855 trillion ($1.9 trillion) in the first quarter of this year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The 7.7 percent ...
American retailer The Kroger Co has announced its commitment to source sustainable palm oil by the end of 2015. In a policy statement, the company said that Palm oil has become the leading oil crop in the world and currently accounts for ...
Proposed revisions to a voluntary tip-over standard used by many case goods manufacturers became clearer this week. The revisions would update how far a dresser or chest's drawers should be pulled out during tip-over testing. The rule ...
Tags: furniture, chests, door chests