A particularly mild winter has aided sales at family-owned home department stores Leekes, which has reported a strong performance over Christmas and the new year. The retail business saw an overall 20% increase in visitor numbers across ...
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Shipments of new personal computers, most of them equipped with Microsoft Windows, will face greater declines in 2014 than earlier anticipated, IDC said Tuesday. IDC said that PC shipments will drop by 6% from 2013 to approximately 296 ...
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Lextar Electronics has reported it consolidated revenues for the fourth quarter of 2013 reached NT$3.32 billion (US$109.55 million). The company's consolidated gross margin was 10.1%, while net profit for the fourth quarter was NT$33 ...
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Panasonic Sony, Panasonic Propose Archival Disc Panasonic Panasonic Launches Mirrorless 4K ILC Panasonic Panasonic Reports Higher Sales, Profits Panasonic Panasonic, N.Y. Jets Announce Sponsorship Panasonic officially announced pricing on ...
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Costco Wholesale Corporation announced its operating results for the second quarter (twelve weeks) and first half (24 weeks) of fiscal 2014, ended February 16, 2014. Net sales for the quarter increased six percent, to $25.76 billion, from ...
L.L.Bean announced a positive close to its 2013 fiscal year. On the basis of the business performance for 2013, the company announced its intent to pay 8% performance bonuses to approximately 5,000 full and part-time employees. ...
The European MTBE factor reached its highest level in eleven months Tuesday supported by ongoing demand for exports, according to market sources. The factor was calculated at 1.204, with MTBE FOB ARA at $1,147/mt versus Ebob gasoline at ...
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According to a new IBM study, 82 percent of CFOs see the value of integrating enterprise-wide data, but only 24 percent think their team is up to the task. This marks a 205 percent increase in the gap between the importance of data and ...
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Last month, a China’s official announced that the government has set the PV system installation target of 14GW in 2014, including 8GW of distributed generation (DG) PV system. However, the second target may be lower by at least 2GW to ...
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Twice as many businesses intend to increase their levels of capital investment in the months ahead compared to those which will reduce their spending, with Australia’s record low borrowing costs and steady levels of confidence about ...
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U.S. workers' productivity rose in the fourth quarter at a slower rate than previously estimated, the Labor Department reported. Productivity increased at a 1.8% annual rate from October to December, down from a previously estimated 3.2%, ...
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In the future, apparel manufacturers are likely to produce closed loop recycled products only, as they will become cheaper to manufacture, will give better quality, and will be relatively more environment friendly. Recycling at the end ...
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Thanks to China's abundant cheap labor resources, the Samsung has established the Smartphone Empire, but as costs soaring, Samsung in order to maintain profits have gradually shifted its production base in Vietnam. After doing business in ...
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The Aluminum Corporation of China Ltd. (Chalco), the listed arm of the country's largest maker of lightweight metal, said it made net profits of 948 million yuan ($154.87 million) in 2013, reversing heavy losses in 2012. Total revenues ...
Allison Transmission says it has developed a new fuel-efficiency package that can improve fuel mileage by 20%. The FuelSense package will initially be offered in the Freightliner M2 106 medium-duty truck. The system automatically adapts ...
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