Despite an 8.4 per cent hike in sales, £19.8 million rise in costs hit underlying pretax profits by 31.6 per cent at Super Group, a marketer of apparel in the first fiscal half ended October 25, 2014. Super Group which markets the ...
Tags: underlying pretax profits, business acquisitions, Apparel
Avantha Group Company CG (Crompton Greaves) will be opening a new facility at Grenoble in France to produce, test and calibrate over 2 million ZIV smart meters per year. CG has chosen Grenoble to open this new facility, so as to cover the ...
Tags: G3-PLC technology, Electrical
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has reported an improvement in airlines’ financial well-being. Worldwide airline share prices rose 14% in November, supported by continued decline in the price of crude oil and jet ...
For its fiscal second-quarter 2015, fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported revenue of $297m, up 2.2% on $290.7m a year ago but down 9.4% on $327.6m last quarter (its first ...
Tags: Finisar, Electronics
Led by mattress fabric sales in the second fiscal quarter ended November 2, 2014, Culp, Inc, one of the world’s largest marketers of mattress and upholstery fabrics, reported highest sales for the second quarter in ten years. In ...
Tags: mattress, upholstery fabrics, Textilec
The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published the cumulative results from the first two quarters of its year-long survey of campylobacter on fresh chickens, which showed that 70 per cent of chicken sold in UK supermarkets were ...
Tags: Chicken, Campylobacter Bacteria
Smith & Wesson reported earnings slid 70.3 percent in the second quarter, to $5.05 million, or 9 cents a share. Revenues slumped 22.1 percent. Net sales for the second quarter were $108.4 million, a decrease of 22.1 percent from net sales ...
Tags: Slides, Sporting Goods
The quotations for the CIF Bremen Cotton Index fluctuated within a small range in the current week, compared to the previous week. The corresponding prices in Euro experienced only a marginal change as well, while the US dollar remained ...
One of the world’s leading producers of Methanol and Canada-based firm, Methanex, has announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has approved a quarterly dividend for holders of the Company’s common shares in the ...
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Australian quick service restaurant operator Collins Foods Limited, which operates KFC and Sizzler restaurants, has reported a 37 per cent lift in Earnings Before Interest Tax Depreciation and Amortisation (EBITA) and a 43 per cent lift in ...
Tags: Collins Foods, Agriculture
Category 9 or Category 10 LTE modems, which enable mobile broadband speeds in the downlink of up to 450Mbps, are expected to reach 64 million in 2019, according to ABI Research. Recently, Qualcomm unveiled its Gobi 9x45, the first mobile ...
Tags: LTE modems, Smartphones
Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Battenfeld Technologies, Inc., an industry-leading provider of hunting and shooting accessories. The acquisition, which is expected to be accretive to Smith & ...
Tags: hunting, shooting accessories, Recreation
The volatile movements in New York cotton futures discouraged spinning yarn producers from entering in to long term contracts. “Aside from a few deals in extra-long staple varieties, mills continued to adopt the wait-and-watch ...
Tags: spinning yarn, Cotton Futures, Textile
For its fiscal full-year 2014 (to end-August), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $14.5m, down 19% on $18m in fiscal 2013 (with LED chips falling 12%, LED components 23%, and lighting ...
Tags: Quarterly Revenue, Semileds, Electrical
DSW Inc. reported third-quarter earnings declined 9.8 percent to $49.6 million, or 55 cents a share. But earnings came in better than Wall Street estimates and sales in all major categories accelerated compared to the first half. Comparable ...
Tags: women's footwear, Sporting Goods