The export price of hot-dip galvanized (HDG) remains stable in India during Christmas holiday. Most Indian steel mills point out that they would soar their export prices by around 1~2% for next February owing to increasing cost on raw ...
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The U.S. carbon steel sheet market represents quiet during Christmas and New Year holiday. However, the price will boost for the first quarter of 2014 with deduction of discount by most steel mills. So far, the ex-word price of hot rolled ...
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The Argos Toy Exchange scheme saw more than £560,000 worth of second-hand toys donated to children's charity Barnado's. 56,031 bags of toys were donated across the six week campaign, which was launched by Denise Van Outen, running ...
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Retailer also reveals plans to have 65 operational stores by 2023 John Lewis recorded a 7.2 per cent sales jump to £734m during the Christmas trading period, reports Retail Week. In the five weeks to December 28th, like-for-likes ...
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Online sales soared 57.7 per cent over the three weeks to December 28 House of Fraser is celebrating its best Christmas trading period ever,driven by a surge in online sales. The firm has revealed that for the three weeks to December ...
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House of Fraser, the UK and Ireland’s premium department store group, provides an update on its best ever Christmas trading period. Trading highlights include: - Like-for-like sales (ex VAT) for the first 9 weeks of the fourth ...
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Sebastian Ferrero Foundation's holiday toy initiative helped grant holiday wishes for over 150 local children by partnering with the local Children's Advocacy Center in support of the organizations "Help for the Holidays" program and UF ...
How to stick to good intentions "I'm going to do more sport in the new year." Hardly any resolution is made more frequently than this one after the calorie-filled Christmas holidays - and hardly one that is broken as frequently. A team ...
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It was a shortened trading week due to the Christmas holiday, and ICE cotton futures started the week non eventful, but finished it with three digit gains. The H4 contract topped over 85 cents and reached a two and a half month high during ...
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Global 40W equiv. LED bulb ASP decreased 2.7 percent to US $15.4 (NT $462), with price decline most evident in the China region, according to market intelligence organization Trendforce’s LEDinside division’s latest LED bulb ...
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US coal production totaled about 19.5 million st in the week ended December 21, 3.1% above the previous week and 5.5% above that of the corresponding week of 2012, the Energy Information Administration said Monday. EIA, which bases its ...
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Tastes, spend and buying habits in the region, suggest that toy firms should be looking to it as a source of potential revenue growth. New research by NPD on Russia suggests that the territory could be the next to see major growth in the ...
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Sofa giant CSL has completed a wholesale rebrand as it revealed it is on target to reach sales of £100m for the first time. By Christmas all 26 of the firm's stores will be operating as Sofaworks as part of the family-owned retailer's ...
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Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News Parcel carriers UPS Inc. and FedEx Corp. worked diligently in the days following Christmas to deliver packages that missed the promised Dec. 24 deadline. UPS said it cleared its backlog of Christmas ...
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Most stores were closed but Americans still managed to shop on Christmas Day—increasingly on their smartphones. An IBM survey showed Christmas Day online sales were up 16.5 percent over last year, with a strong boost from ...
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