Unilever reported that its 2013 turnover was down 3% to €49.8 billion with foreign exchange 5.9% and net acquisitions and disposal 1.1% Finance costs and tax The cost of financing net borrowings in 2013 was €397 million versus ...
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Novozymes, the world’s largest producer of industrial enzymes, announced its 2013 financial results. Organic sales growth was 7% (5% DKK, 8% LCY), EBIT grew by 6% and net profit by 9%, and the EBIT margin increased by 0.3 percentage ...
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The U.S. pork industry has started a slow expansion driven by lower feed costs, which should lead to more rapid growth of pork supplies in the latter half of this year, says Purdue Extension agricultural economist Chris Hurt. That could ...
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The January 2014 Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) Survey of Investor Confidence reveals that despite some positive trends, such as sales and profitability continuing to rise off of a low base through the December quarter, ...
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China's tobacco industry generated almost 956 billion yuan ($157 billion) in taxes and profits in 2013, up 10.5 percent year-on-year, an official said on Thursday. The industry handed over 816 billion yuan in profits and taxes to the ...
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With the development of the stationery industry, high-grade stationery has became the popular market with it rapid development. The changes of consumption make more and more people want to buy somethings good.For example,the ten-yuan ...
UPS Inc. said an unexpected surge of last-minute Internet gift orders during a compressed peak holiday season strained its delivery system, leading to fourth-quarter earnings of about $1.25 per share, or 18 cents below Wall Street ...
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UPS Inc. said an unexpected surge of last-minute Internet gift orders during a compressed peak holiday season strained its delivery system, leading to fourth-quarter earnings of about $1.25 per share, or 18 cents below Wall Street ...
Tags: UPS, Lowered Profits, Holiday Surge
Consumers are increasingly turning to recommendation engines, friends, social networking or advertising to discover mobile applications rather than sorting through the thousands of mobile apps available, according to Gartner. It predicts ...
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Rechi Precision Co., Ltd., world's fourth-largest compressor supplier by shipment, achieved robust sales in 2013, in which the company shipped record-breaking 12.3682 million units to rack up the second-highest annual consolidated revenue ...
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The notice of the state council, explicitly allow foreign-funded enterprises engaged in the game of the equipment production and sales, which means that the video games in our country officially lifted bans on regulations. Expert analysis, ...
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They said the party was over, but Australia's giant resources sector is surging into a two-horse race between iron ore and coal, with the latest numbers revealing that there is still fire in the belly of the boom, thanks mainly to sustained ...
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E-commerce took off in the steel sector in 2013 as the ailing industry competes to cut costs, Dong Baoqing, an official at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at a -forum in Shanghai on Sa-turday. ...
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Although there has been progress in cutting out the marketing of junk food to schoolchildren, many American students are still exposed to in-school marketing of less-than-nutritious fare, a new study finds. One nutritionist wasn't ...
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Motorola announced Tuesday that its flagship Moto X smartphone is heading for Europe. Moto X will arrive in France, Britain and Germany with the start of February, according to the Google-owned firm. "At Motorola our roots are deep in ...
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