Gross margin expansion and a lower average share count drove diluted earnings per share growth by 25 per cent year on year at Nike for its second fiscal quarter ended November 30, 2014. In the second quarter of fiscal 2015, net income ...
Tags: product type, geography, key category, Apparel
The reduction of bank credit available to the diamond industry is a game changer that will influence the market for many years to come. Therefore, this column has chosen bank credit as its most important story of 2014, rising above other ...
Tags: diamond industry, diamond market
Koch Optics Inc, a subsidiary of Koch Industries Inc of Wichita, KS, USA, has completed its tender offer to purchase all issued and outstanding shares of common stock of optical communications component, module and subsystem maker Oplink ...
Tags: Koch Industries, Oplink
GT Advanced Technologies has announced that following the bankruptcy court's recent approval of its settlement agreement with Apple, GT is now pursuing ASF furnace opportunities for sapphire cover glass applications across the broader ...
In late 2013, LEDinside team forecasted major company restructure market trends will continue throughout the year. The trend has been consistent in 2014, as more lighting manufacturers take necessary restructure measures to remain ...
Tags: LED component, LED light
Holiday sales as compared to overall annual retail sales have been trending downward for about a decade. Holiday sales in 2013, at $663.5 billion, were 18.7 percent of overall retail sales, well below the peak of 19.6 percent seen in 2004. ...
Tags: Gifts, Shoppers, Sporting Goods
DFS reports "continued strong momentum" in its latest financial report, covering the 13 weeks ending 1st November 2014. The quarter saw continued momentum in sales and EBITDA for DFS, with group gross sales up 15.3% to £197m (2013 ...
Tags: selling space, Furniture
Earlier in December 2014, Australian Food News reported that food manufacturing was one of four manufacturing sub-sectors to expand in November 2014, according to the Australian Industry Group Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index ...
Tags: Food, Beverage, Agriculture
Australian miner Sundance Resources has announced that it has undertaken a number of cost reduction measures to ensure the management of its cash position while retaining the ability to move its Mbalam-Nabeba iron ore project into ...
Tags: cash position, Metallurgy
Canadian restaurant company MTY Food Group’s subsidiaries MTY Tiki Ming Enterprises and MTY Franchising USA have acquired the assets of Manchu Wok, Wasabi Grill & Noodle and SenseAsian restaurants. Valued at $7.9m, this transaction ...
Tags: restaurants, Agriculture
Mexican food firm Grupo LALA has agreed to acquire assets of Nicaraguan food company Eskimo for an undisclosed amount. An agreement to this effect was signed by both the companies, with the transaction to be closed after obtaining ...
Tags: ice cream, milk and yoghurt, Agriculture
One Eight Distilling, only the second distillery to open in Washington since prohibition, will officially open its doors on 10 January 2015. Customers will be invited for a behind-the-scenes glimpse at One Eight's 7,500 square production ...
Tags: flasks, hats, t-shirts, shot glasses, Agriculture
For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2014 (to end-September), Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optics market, has reported revenue of $43.7m, down 1.9% on $44.6m ...
Tags: Emcore, Fiber Optics, Electronics
Around 48% of all the pizzas surveyed across the UK were found to exceed the recommended limit for an entire day (6g/day), according to a report by the Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) and World Action on Salt and Health (WASH). ...
Tags: Half of Pizzas, Food
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc (MACOM) of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has completed its acquisition (announced on 18 November) of ...