Gildan Activewear reported second-quarter revenues rose 4.9 percent to $548.8 million. Adjusted net earnings were $79.2 million, or 64 cents a share, up 8.9 percent The company had projected net sales for the quarter in excess of U.S. ...
Tags: Sports Apparel, Apparel, Sporting Goods, Recreation
Crocs, Inc. reported earnings tumbled 78.0 percent in the first quarter, to $6.4 million, or 6 cents a share, from $29.0 million, or 33 cents, a year ago. Revenues inched up 0.2 percent to $312.4 million as strong gains in the Asia-Pacific ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
For many, Made in the USA is a sign of product quality, economic investment and some may even venture to say patriotism, and when it comes to buying floors, consumers' standards and expectations remain the same. In an industry that, like ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, floor, flooring
Wolverine Worldwide reported revenue in the first quarter, as expected, declined modestly to $627.6 million, a decrease of 2.8 percent versus the prior year. Gains were tempered by continued soft traffic at retail in the U.S., the strategic ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Big 5 Sporting Goods reported that for the fiscal 2014 first quarter, net sales were $231.3 million, compared to net sales of $246.3 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2013. Same store sales declined 7.9 percent for the first quarter ...
Tags: Recreation, Sporting Goods
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. reported a net loss of $58 million on net sales of $4.5 billion for its first quarter ended March 31, 2014. That compares to income of $26 million on sales of $4.9 billion for the same period last year. Goodyear ...
Tags: Goodyear, Tire, Tyre, auto parts
"Clariant had a promising start to the year with good volume growth and an increase in operating profitability," said CEO Hariolf Kottmann. "Overall, our businesses performed well in an improving but still mixed economic environment. The ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, economy
Liquor retailing is growing, and sheltered from supermarket price wars Much has been reported on the battle for consumers' hearts, minds and money by Australia's two biggest supermarket groups, and liquor retailing may yet play a key role ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Wine
ICE Cotton futures gained almost 100 pts this week basis the N4 to settle at 93.25 c/lbs. Thursday was the soon-to-expire K4 contract's First Notice Day, which was preceded by a large drop in OI via EFP and EFS transactions, rumored to be ...
Adequate levels of rhizobia organisms can help to increase nitrogen fixation; satellite imagery and mapping capabilities help growers identify yield-limiting factors; and developments in drought stress tolerance. Adequate Rhizobia ...
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Refining margins for sweet crudes are out-performing margins for sour crudes like Urals in Northwest Europe, Platts data shows, as lighter refined products have surged while heavier products have dropped. While cracking margins -- which ...
Tags: Sweet Crude, Gasoline
Delta Apparel, Inc. reported that for its fiscal 2014 second quarter ended Mar. 29, 2014, net sales were $114.5 million versus $120.1 million for the comparable 2013 period. The 5 percent sales decline was due primarily to unseasonably cold ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Sporting Apparel
C.C. Wang, president of the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI), warns that the island will lag South Korea in machine tool exports globally in three to five years if the Legislature fails to approve the service trade pact ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) and silicon-on-insulator (SOI), has introduced its next-generation UltraCMOS PE4312 ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Cytec Industries Inc. announced net earnings for the first quarter of 2014 of $55.9 million or $1.52 per diluted share on net sales of $489 million. Included in the quarter for continuing operations is a special item in the amount of $3.8 ...
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