According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals (HCP) Tracker, the worldwide hardcopy peripherals market experienced a 5.9% decline in the second quarter of 2015. Total shipments fell to 24.1 million units, while the ...
Global Brands Group Holding Limited, which owns long-term rights to the Sypder snow sports brand, reported sales declined 5 percent to $1.28 billion for the six months ended June 30 largely due to pruning of under performing brands and ...
Tags: apparel, footwear, fashion accessories
Castle Brands, a developer and international marketer of premium and super-premium branded spirits, today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2015. Net sales increased 37.8% to $16.5 million for the first quarter of ...
Tags: spirits, Whiskey, Ginger Beer
Centrally-administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs) performed well in the first half of the year, regulators said on Tuesday. These SOEs have seen a steady rise of profitability, especially in the second quarter of the year, the ...
Tags: China economy, SOEs
Net income at US based value-added and recycled fibres producer Unifi, Inc climbed 46.52 per cent year over year for fiscal ended June 28, 2015. A Unifi press release informed that net income for fiscal 2015 totaled to $42.2 million or ...
Tags: textile manufacture, fibres
Debenhams has issued a trading update for the 15 weeks and the 41 weeks to 13th June 2015, and confirms the business is on track to meet full-year market expectations. Group gross transaction value was up 0.4% for the 15 weeks, and 1.7% ...
Competition in the gaming notebook segment is surely to become keener in the second half of 2015 as notebook brands including Acer, Asustek Computer, Dell, Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) together are expected to ...
Tags: Gaming Notebook, Tablet Notebook
US-based Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has decided to part ways with Japanese Sumitomo Rubber Industries on the global front, bringing an end to the alliance formed in 1999. Both the companies have inked an agreement that would address ...
Tags: Tire, Tyre, Auto Parts, Goodyear Tire
PPG Industries’ packaging coatings business has announced that it will showcase INNOVEL HPS new generation spray coatings for the interior of beverage cans at Cannex & Fillex Asia Pacific in Guangzhou, China, June 1-4. PPG also will ...
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For the first fiscal quarter ended May 2, 2015 gross margin at US apparel retailer JC Penney expanded 330 basis points to 36.4 per cent of sales, compared to 33.1 per cent in the same quarter of last fiscal. JC Penney reported net ...
Cabela’s Incorporated reported total revenue increased 14.0 percent to $827.1 million in the first quarter ended March 28 due primarily to the opening of new stores and associated growth at its credit card business. Cabela's Retail ...
Tags: Cabela, Sporting Goods
A market study by global information company, The NPD Group has found that New York and Los Angeles are the largest US markets in terms of apparel sales, but smaller markets such as Orlando and Washington, D.C. are the top markets driving ...
Tags: US Markets, NPD Group, apparel sales
In acquiring an 80.1% stake in Philips' combined LED components and Automotive lighting business (with Netherlands-based Philips retaining the remaining 19.9%), new owners GO Scale Capital (an investment fund sponsored by GSR Ventures and ...
Tags: Lumileds, LED components, Electronics
Earnings per share on a non-GAAP basis surged 23 per cent at apparel marketer PVH Corp which has brands like Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger in its portfolio for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2014. PVH said its fourth quarter ...
Tags: PVH Corp, Heritage brands business, Apparel
Ecco reported profit after tax increased 7.6 percent in 2014 while revenues grew 9.1 percent. The gains came despite challenging conditions in some markets, most notably in Russia and the Ukraine, which suffered serious economic problems. ...
Tags: Ecco, shopping, Recreation