Australian wine exports rose by 3.6 per cent in volume and 3.9 per cent in value of wine exports in the 12 months to end of March 2015, according to the latest findings from the Australian Grape and Wine Authority (AGWA). Australian wine ...
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Montreal is weighing a ban on plastic bags in what could become the first such drive by a prominent Canadian city if promulgated into law. Mayor Denis Coderre has initiated a public discussion on the matter recently. "We have to ...
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Driven by Printwear and Branded Apparel sales, consolidated net sales at clothing retailer Gildan Activewear soared 15.9 per cent year over year in the first fiscal quarter ended April 5, 2015. Consolidated net sales in the first ...
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Apple and electric battery maker A123 Systems are nearing settlement of a legal tiff that saw the latter accusing the former of poaching its staff to set up a battery unit for its electric car venture. While final details are being worked ...
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Naked Brand Group Inc. a global lifestyle brand focused on innovative and luxurious innerwear, loungewear and sleepwear, has launched a totally revamped and enhanced online shopping platform at www.thenakedshop.com, it said in a statement. ...
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U.S. specialty jewelry store sales slumped 5.8 percent year on year to $2.019 billion in March, reflecting the sixth consecutive monthly decline. Jewelry store sales during the first quarter of 2015 have fallen 5.6 percent to $6.266 ...
Packaging, serving sizes and health consciousness will be the key to profit growth for Coca-Cola Amatil according to its CEO Alison Watkins. Speaking at the company’s Annual General Meeting yesterday Ms Watkins said she was ...
The focus in the corn market has mostly turned to 2015 production prospects and implications for the magnitude of stocks at the end of the 2015-16 marketing year. Still, the pace of old-crop consumption will determine the magnitude of ...
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For its fiscal third-quarter 2015 (ended 28 March), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $83m, down 13% on $95.4m a year ago and down 4% on ...
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Phoenix Footwear Group, Inc., the parent of Trotters and SoftWalk, reported first-quarter sales grew 16.7 percent to to $6.7 million from $5.7 million a year ago. The company saw growth in both its Trotters and Softwalk brands during the ...
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U.S. jewelry and watch sales across all channels fell 1.7 percent year on year to $5.386 billion in March, as estimated from preliminary government figures. According to Rapaport News calculations, jewelry sales dropped 1.5 percent to ...
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Retail sales have continued to slow, with the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) CHEP Retail Index revealing growth of only four per cent year-on-year in the March quarter, slowing to three per cent by the June quarter. Retail ...
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The Australian retail sector is expected to see a further slowing in growth nationally, with the AFGC CHEP Retail Index showing growth of 4 per cent year-on-year in the March quarter, slowing to 3 per cent by the June quarter. Within this ...
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China's small and micro enterprises saved 24 billion yuan ($3.92 billion) in the first quarter of 2015 due to preferential tax policies, the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) said on Monday. Statistics from SAT showed that a total of ...
Global demand for hard disk drives (HDDs) of all sizes will continually decrease from 561 million units in 2014 to 550 million units in 2015 and further to 538 million units in 2016, according to Taiwan and Shanghai general manager Vincent ...