LED backlighting prices are expected to decline an average of 3-8% while LED demand for lighting applications will remain flat during the third quarter of 2014, according to LEDinside. The firm said because of the traditional slow season ...
Tags: LED Backlighting, LED demand
A 27% plunge in American continent sales, led NYSE-listed marketer of outdoor sports apparel - Quiksilver, Inc., to report a steep 19% year-on-year drop in global revenues for the third fiscal quarter ending July 31, 2014. Net revenues in ...
Tags: Sports Apparel, outdoor apparel
Quiksilver, Inc. reported revenues fell 19.0 percent in its third quarter ended July 31, to $395.7 million. On a currency-neutral basis, sales were down 17 percent for the Quiksilver brand, 9 percent at Roxy, and 34 percent at DC Shoes. The ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Corn prices continue to be dominated by expectations of a very large U.S. harvest. The USDA will release a new forecast of the size of the crop on September 11. The market expectation is that the new forecast will be about 250 million ...
Tags: Agriculture, Corn
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, ...
Order visibility for Taiwan-based PC and notebook related IC vendors for the third quarter of 2014 is better than expected due to a rebound in demand for notebooks and other PC products, according to industry sources. However, suppliers ...
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
AK Steel announced Wednesday that for the third quarter of 2014, the company expects shipments of approximately 1,350,000 tons, a decrease of approximately 3 percent from the 1,398,000 tons shipped in the second quarter of 2014. Shipments ...
Tags: AK Steel, Metallurgy
As clients are adjusting inventories of LED chips used in backlighting and lighting, demand for LED chips in the third quarter of 2014 will significantly decrease sequentially, according to chairman Lee Biing-jye of Taiwan-based LED ...
Tags: LED Demand, LED Chips
A manifold hike in interest expense, pushed NASDAQ-listed and apparel and home décor retailer Gordmans Stores Inc to report a net loss in the second fiscal quarter ended August 2, 2104 compared to net profit, a year earlier. ...
Tags: home décor, Retailer Gordmans, Apparel
The Multifamily Production Index (MPI), an indicator for the multifamily market released by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), posted a gain of five points to a reading of 58 for the second quarter. It is the 10th straight ...
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LED driver IC vendors including Silergy, Macroblock and On-Bright Electronics are expected to see their sales stay flat in the third quarter of 2014 before riding higher in the fourth quarter, according to industry sources. Order ...
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NYSE-listed retailer of casual apparel - Aeropostale, Inc reported a 13% year-on-year decline in net sales and a corresponding decrease in comparable store sales for the second fiscal quarter of 2014. For the second quarter of 2014, ...
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The company’s upholds a positive outlook, having made a production capacity breakthrough in June 2014, lowered costs in 3Q14 and optimized utilization rates and product portfolio. Optimistic about the emerging LED lighting market, ...
Tags: Lextar, Production Capacity, Lights
Scandi Standard, through its subsidiary Kronfagel, has acquired Bosarpskyckling, a producer of organic broiler chickens under the Bosarp brand. The transaction will enable Kronfagel to expand its offerings, helping to meet strong demand ...
Tags: Scandi Standard, Bosarpskyckling, Food