Oyxlane, the French parent company of Decathlon, reported sales increased 6.1 percent in 2013 to €7.4 billion ($9.8 bn) in 2013 on comparable store sales growth of 1.3 percent. Sales had risen 7.2 percent to €7.0 billion in 2012 ...
Safilo Group SpA reported sales of Sports Products, which includes its Smith Optics brand, reached €16.1 million in the first quarter, up 0.9 percent, or 4.3 percent in currency-neutral (c-n) terms. alian parent company of the ...
Tags: Sports Products, Sporting Goods
In March this year, Spanish crude steel output amounted to 1.3 million mt, up 4.1 percent year on year and increasing by 5.6 percent compared to February, according to the Spanish steelmakers association Unesid. Meanwhile, in the first ...
Tags: Steel Product, steel use
In March this year, new commercial vehicle registrations grew by 11.1 percent year on year in the European Union, totaling 185,520 units, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA). The month counted on average ...
Hamthropology, dedicated to the preservation of the Ossabaw Island Pigs and their heritage, today announced the introduction of Registered Ossabaw Island Pork to the Georgia culinary market. Ossabaw Island pigs are critically-endangered ...
Tags: Pork, culinary market
Members of the Argentinian Biofuels Association, or CARBIO, exported 85,000 mt of biodiesel in March, a 5.2% fall compared with the same period in 2013, according to data from the industry body received by Platts Monday. CARBIO members ...
Spain exported more LNG than it imported for the first time ever in the week ending Sunday as 430,400 cubic meters was reloaded onto tankers, data from gas grid operator Enagas showed Monday. Three tankers were reloaded during the week, ...
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The Spanish textile Industry Price Index (IPRI) for the month of March 2014, registered a rise of 0.2 percent, compared to the same month last year, as per the data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE) of Spain. The IPRI ...
Tags: Textile Industry, apparel
The European Commission (EC) has confirmed disbursement of €840,000 from the European Globalization Adjustment Fund (EGF) to help 300 workers made redundant in the textile sector of the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia to find ...
Tags: Textile
Pressure sensitive label materials supplier UPM Raflatac has decided to invest around €13m in a new coating line at its self-adhesive labelstock factory in Nowa Wies, Poland. The investment will allow the company to increase the ...
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In March of the current year, Spain's total motor vehicle output amounted to 220,435 units, rising by 26.99 percent year on year, according to the data reported by the Spanish Automobile and Truck Manufacturers' Association (ANFAC). ...
Tags: Motor Vehicle, passenger car
Whereas the short decrease of the quotations on the futures market had stimulated the closure of several contracts during the previous week, prices for medium staple cotton returned to a firm tendency within the course of this week and ...
Tags: Cotton Prices, Cotton
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Wednesday the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping (AD) order on stainless steel bar from Spain. The review covers one company — Gerdau Aceros Especiales ...
Tags: Stainless Bar, dumping duty
Laser Encoders Enable High-Accuracy Machining of Composite Parts Flow International Corp.'s Composites Machining Center (CMC) hits the mark for single-setup processing of 40-meter-long composite wing skins, and one of the keys to holding ...
Global crude steel production in March this year increased by 2.7 percent year on year to 141.34 million metric tons, while a 13.1 percent rise was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel). In ...
Tags: Crude Steel, crude steel output