The total wholesale value of the branded athletic footwear market reached $46,515 million in 2013 compared to $44,462 million the prior year, considerably aided by the big boost in Nike’s U.S. basketball business. That helped overcome ...
In August, China's finished steel output increased slightly, while domestic finished steel prices continued to soften in the given month due to slower economic growth, with the finished steel price decreases contributing to significant ...
Tags: finished steel, Iron Ore
On September 10, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in late August (August 21-31) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China - all CISA members - ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Driven by acquisition of Jos. A. Bank and also rise in retail segment sales, clothing marketer Men's Wearhouse said it reported a 24% revenue hike in the second quarter ended August 2, 2014. Total net sales increased 24.1% or $155.8 ...
Red ink was splashed across all financial parameters, including revenue and net loss at womenswear apparel retailer The Wet Seal in the fiscal second quarter ended August 2, 2014. The Net sales were down 11.2% to $121.2 million in the ...
Tags: Apparel, Textile, Womenswear
NYSE-listed apparel retailer, Oxford Industries, Inc. reported rise in net sales of 5% to reach $246.2 million in second fiscal quarter ended August 2, 2014, compared to $235.0 million in the second fiscal quarter of 2013. On an adjusted ...
Adjusted EBITDA zoomed 23.8% year-on-year at off-price retailer of high-quality branded apparel and NYSE-listed Burlington Stores, Inc. in the second quarter ended August 2, 2014. Burlington Stores said its adjusted EBITDA increased 23.8% ...
Tags: Apparel, Apparel Retail, Apparel Economy
Back in May I read a post by Eyal Rosenberg, CEO of payment automation software maker Nipendo, who made reference to an auto industry survey that highlighted the importance of supplier liquidity, including the negative impact that a slow ...
Tags: Chain Financing, trade tips
New orders to U.S. production plants soared a record 10.5 percent in July on a 74 percent bookings spike in the volatile transportation sector. The somewhat misleading double-digit gain was propelled by an eye-popping 317.3 percent surge in ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Hardware
In its fiscal year ending July 5, 2014 Bebe stores, a retailer of women’s apparel was able to reduce its losses by $9.7 million or 14.1%, when compared with the previous fiscal year ending July 6, 2013. Net loss from continuing ...
Tags: Bebe, finished goods, women's apparel
For fiscal first-quarter 2015 (ended 27 July 2014), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported its eighth consecutive quarter of sequential revenue growth, to a record $327.6m, ...
Future Group, one of the top retail groups in India, has planned to invest in omni-channel retailing, by implementing the omni-commerce suite by hybris, a company owned by SAP. Omni-channel retailing, the next step in multi-channel ...
Tags: Future Group, Omni-Channel, Hybris
Campbell Soup Company today reported its fourth-quarter and full-year results for fiscal 2014. The company reported earnings from continuing operations for the quarter ended Aug. 3, 2014, of $137 million, or $0.43 per share, compared with ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Iron ore prices may be up for another dive as Chinese steel mills take a breather after the summer production peak, analysts say. The benchmark iron ore price plunged to a fresh five-year low to $US84.30 a tonne on Thursday night, and ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron Ore
For the thirteen week period ended August 2, 2014 or the second fiscal quarter of 2014, net income leapt massively from a net loss in the corresponding quarter of 2013 at specialty women's apparel retailer and NYSE-listed Christopher & ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories