A new official report has highlighted China's mounting economic challenges, including how to boost exports, amid the slow recovery of the global economy and some countries resorting to currency depreciation. "The world economy is growing ...
For first-quarter 2015, AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which makes gallium arsenide, indium phosphide and germanium substrates and raw materials, has reported revenue of $20.1m, up 2.5% on $19.6m last quarter and 4% on $19.3m a year ago. ...
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The slow recovery of the global PV market continues into the second quarter. Jason Huang, research manager for EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, said the market on the whole is showing positive signs even though prices along the supply ...
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On a GAAP basis, operating profit surged 25 per cent to $90 million while earnings per share (EPS) rose higher by 30 per cent to $0.13, both up from the year ago quarter at HanesBrands in the first fiscal quarter ended April 4, 2015. ...
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Driven by redemption of $0.5 billion of preferred securities in December 2014, net income at NYSE listed Kimberly-Clark (K-C) was knocked down by 35.71 per cent year on year in the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. According to a K-C ...
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UK eCommerce business leaders are turning their attention to high-growth consumer markets in the US, China and India, according to a new report commissioned by business process outsourcing provider (BPO) arvato and World Business Research ...
For fiscal third-quarter 2015 (to 29 March), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $409.5m, down about 1% on $413.2m last quarter but up 1% on $405.3m a year ago (and on the higher end of the targeted range of $395-415m), as ...
Korea Institute of Science and Technology has presented what it says is the first demonstration of indium gallium arsenide on-insulator (In0.53Ga0.47As-OI) transistors with a buried yttrium oxide (Y2O3 BOX) layer [SangHyeon Kim et al, IEEE ...
Al Safi Danone Iraq will receive around $18m in investment from World Bank Group member IFC to expand its dairy operations to enhance domestic food security. This is a part of World Bank Group's strategy to encourage South-South ...
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Siemens has launched a Wi-Fi enabled electric vehicle (EV) charging station, VersiCharge Smartgrid (SG). The cloud-based charging station will allow residential owners to monitor and control usage remotely, turn charging on or off, ...
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Hit by sluggish Chinese demand, India’s cotton export is expected to fall 29 per cent to 7 million bales in the current crop year that ends in September. India has so far exported only 4.5 million bales of cotton this year, media ...
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Based on the information released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, we can see that China’s coatings market in 2014 grew by around eight percent last year over 2013. And the fact that China’s architectural coatings ...
Most people don’t like to discuss money, but what’s the first question people usually ask when they see something they want? If you’re like me, your immediate next thoughts are, can I get it for less? Or, how can I get ...
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This started as a blog post about creative exhibit design, but turned into a post about creative exhibit designers, because without the designers, you don’t get the creative design. It’s that simple. Creative exhibit ...
Imagine you stood in a room with 393 fellow exhibitors, and asked them the question, “How did you stretch your exhibiting budget over the past two years?” Think of all the great advice they could share. Well, now you have all ...