Vidrala, through its subsidiary Inverbeira Sociedad de Promoción de Empresas, has completed acquisition of Encirc, an Irish manufacturer of glass containers for the food and beverage industries, for €408.6m. Encirc ...
Posted in Medical Device Business by Nancy Crotti on January 14, 2015 As the U.S. dollar strengthens amid global economic uncertainty, travelers aren’t the only ones affected. Major medtech companies including St. Jude Medical and ...
Tags: Medical Device, Health
The coming year could be pivotal for the global LED industry, given the growing market share of Chinese LED companies throughout the value chain. In order to compete with international companies and maintain their growth, China vendors must ...
Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney has announced the commencement of its fifth U.S. Paint & Coatings Industry study. According to the firm, the industry is continuing its recovery from the global recession of 2008-2009. Consumption is projected to ...
Total holiday retail sales, which include November and December sales, increased 4 percent to $616.1 billion, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. The results were just shy of the National Retail Federation's projected forecast of 4.1 ...
Tags: job market, gas prices, Sporting Goods
Lululemon Athletica Inc. upgraded its net revenue and earnings guidance for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014 ahead of its presentation at the ICR XChange investor conference on Monday. For the fourth quarter ending Feb. 1, Lululemon now ...
Tags: guest experience, international expansion efforts, Sporting Goods
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) is commencing volume production of its SkyLiTE front-end solutions powering LTE platforms in emerging markets. Skyworks’ newest ...
Dunn-Edwards Paints has enhanced its designer-preferred Perfect Palette color system with the Then, Now & Forever collection of 300 new colors to offer designers, architects and consumers the most complete, well-researched palette for any ...
Tags: trending colors, Construction
Global solar PV demand is forecast to grow by up to 25% in 2015, according to IHS. Due to the ongoing cost reductions for solar PV, IHS forecasts that installation demand will grow at a double-digit rate of 16-25% and installations in the ...
Tags: solar PV, low-concentration photovoltaic(LCPV)systems, Lights
U.S. online retail sales for the Christmas season, from November 1 to December 31, rose 15 percent year on year to $53.3 billion, according to comScore Inc. Cyber Monday, December 1, ranked as the heaviest online spending day of the year ...
The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) anticipates that, despite expected growth in cotton consumption this season, a world production surplus of 1.7 million tons is still expected. This, according to ICAC, will bring 2014/15 ...
Tags: cotton consumption, Textile
China is likely to see 60 percent more initial public offerings in 2015 as the securities regulator improves capital market operations, said international auditor PwC on Monday. Lin Yizhong, managing partner of PwC ...
Tags: IPOs, initial public offerings
A report by Juniper Research has found that will more than treble by 2018 with over 70 million devices in-use worldwide, compared to an estimated 19 million in-use devices this year. Juniper expects fitness to remain the dominant wearables ...
Tags: retail prices, smart watches, Sporting Goods
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) announced its annual fitness trend forecast based on survey responses from thousands of fitness professionals. Body weight training, high-intensity interval training, educated/experienced ...
Tags: Body weight training, high-intensity interval training, Sporting Goods
Diamantaires were happy to see the back of 2014. After all, it was a tough year in which polished diamond prices declined, accelerating the general downtrend evident since mid-2011. Therefore, there is understandably some uncertainty about ...