UK retail footfall in February was 1.1% down on a year ago – lower than the 1.2% rise seen in January and the three-month average rate of -0.8% – according to the latest BRC/Springboard Footfall and Vacancies Monitor. ...
Tags: BRC, Retail football, Goverment support
EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, reports that the global PV market is seeing slowing demand after the Chinese New Year holidays. Peak installation seasons in the U.S. and Japan have passed, and the demand related to China’s ...
Adidas Group reported a narrower loss in the fourth quarter as gross margins expanded and currency-neutral sales jumped 12 percent, driven by accelerated momentum at both Adidas and Reebok. On a currency-neutral basis, sales grew 16 percent ...
Tags: Adidas Group, Reebok
The recovery in air freight volumes from a weak first half of last year continued into 2016, although subdued underlying global trade conditions suggest another modest year for volumes growth, reports the IATA. Ongoing strong capacity ...
Tags: IATA, Solid, Air Freight
The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) exceeded US$6.4 billion in revenues in the fourth quarter of 2015, an increase of 3.2% on year and a healthy increase of 5.1% on quarter. For full-year 2015, the market increased 1.9% over ...
Tags: Ethernet Switch, Router
Catalyst Paper reported fourth quarter adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of $15.1 million and EBITDA before specific items of $19.8 million. This compares to adjusted EBITDA of $38.8 million ...
Tags: Catalyst Paper, EBITDA, Forth Quarter, Adjusted earnings
The worldwide wearable device market took a big step forward in the fourth quarter of 2015, fueled by the growing popularity of fitness trackers and the Apple Watch. According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, vendors ...
Tags: Wearable Market, Wearable Device
Worldwide personal and entry-level storage (PELS) shipments totaled 68.5 million units in 2015, representing a decline of 9.2% from a year ago, according to the IDC Worldwide Personal and Entry-Level Storage Tracker. Annual shipment values ...
Tags: PELS Market, entry-level storage
LED makers are branching into niche application markets as competition in their industry expands, comments LEDinside (a division of TrendForce) in its latest 'Gold Member Report – 2016 LED Market Demand and Supply Analysis'. ...
For fiscal second-quarter 2016 (to 26 December), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $94.1m (slightly above the $88-94m guidance). This is up ...
Tags: Oclaro, Wireless sales
LED manufacturers are branching into the niche application markets as the competition in their industry expands. Currently, entering the automotive LED market is regarded as a blue ocean strategy because the market has relatively few ...
Tags: LED Market, LED Products
Chinese scientists have found that sediment transport in Yellow River was reduced mainly due to anthropogenic changes. The Yellow River was once the world's largest carrier of fluvial sediment, with 90 percent coming from the Loess ...
Tags: Human Activity, Yellow River
Profit declines for China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) continued but narrowed in November, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Friday. China's non-financial SOEs raked in 2 trillion yuan (309.1 billion U.S. dollars) in profits from ...
Tags: State Companies, Profitability
China's real estate sector showed signs of warming in November as new home prices rose on a monthly basis in an increasing number of cities, buoyed by government policies. Of 70 large and medium-sized cities surveyed in November, new home ...
China might introduce more easing policies in 2016 to consume unsold home inventories, a report by the Bank of Communications said, despite data from Friday showing signs of a warming market. The government could further lower the minimum ...