India’s apparel industry is continuing its upward growth curve with the overall index value recording 6.2 points, according to The Clothing Manufacturers Association of India’s (CMAI) Apparel Index for April-June 2015. Much like ...
Tags: apparel industry, Clothing
Japan's integrated beverages company Kirin is reportedly planning to acquire 55% stake in Myanmar Brewery from Singapore-based beverage producer Fraser and Neave (F&N) for $560m. Reuters cited sources familiar with the matter as saying ...
Tags: beverage, beverage manufacture, Kirin, company acquisition
Jiffy Packaging Europe has sold its air cushion technology and foam-in-place systems division, to German flexible packaging firm Ripac. Ripac has been supplying film to Jiffy's Systems division since 2008. Cheshire-based Jiffy makes ...
For full-year fiscal 2015 (ended 28 June), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $1.63bn, down just 1% on fiscal 2014's record $1.65bn. Specifically, revenue for Lighting Products (mainly LED lighting systems and bulbs) grew ...
Tags: LED Product, LED chips
For second-quarter 2015, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $7.1m, down 51% on $14.5m a ...
Tags: Mobile Market, LED light, LED bulb
Good dynamics across all segments helped sales at German apparel marketer Tom Tailor Group climb 3.8 per cent year over year for the first half ended June 30, 2015. “Sales increased 3.8 per cent €441.5 million in the reporting ...
Tags: apparel, textile industry, fashion industry
Textile spinning mills affiliated to the Northern India Textile Mills' Association (NITMA) are considering cutting back production and shutting down their mills once a week against the current trend of operating a mill 24x7. In a press ...
Tags: spinning mills, yarn, Textile
Film manufacturing and coating firm Perlen Packaging is injecting over CHF20m ($20.3m) for expanding its PVdC coating line capacity in Perlen, Switzerland. The company, a unit of of industrial group CPH Chemie + Papier Holding, ...
Digital-printing technology firm Xeikon has established a new technology center in Tokyo, Japan, as part of its efforts to expand presence in the Asia Pacific region. The new technology center, which is the company's second such unit in ...
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Despite, difficult comparisons after record World Cup related sales in the prior year second quarter, topline at Adidas Group expanded 15 per cent year over year in the second quarter of 2015. In the three months to June 30, 2015, in euro ...
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For fiscal 2015 (ended 27 June), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $341.3m, down 12.7% on fiscal 2014's $390.9m. This is due to a 25% ...
Tags: laser product, telecom products
For second-quarter 2015, GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has reported a fifth consecutive quarterly revenue increase, ...
According to the report 'GaN and SiC for power electronics applications' from Yole Développement, in 2014 the silicon carbide (SiC) chip business was worth more than $133m, with power factor correction (PFC) and photovoltaics (PV) ...
Tags: SiC Market, power electronics
US based apparel marketer Columbia Sportswear Company said its net sales for the quarter ended June 30, 2015 grew 17 per cent year over year and thereby created a record for second quarter sales. In a press release, Columbia Sportswear ...
Tags: Sportswear, apparel
Test systems and position sensors suppliers MTS Systems Corporation and CATARC (China's Automotive Technology & Research Center) have consolidated their tie-up with the latter’s opening of a new test facility in China. Backed by the ...
Tags: position sensors, Test systems