FreeFOAM project partner The Association of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry of the Slovak Republic (ZCHFP) generously hosted the third meeting of the FreeFOAM consortium at their facilities in Bratislava in June. The FreeFOAM project ...
BOSTON – An EPA settlement will require that a Rhode Island chemical manufacturing company take multiple actions designed to minimize air emissions and protect air quality near the facility and in the surrounding community. The ...
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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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American packaging company Sonoco has agreed to acquire Germany-based Weidenhammer Packaging for an amount of approximately $383m (€286m). Sonoco president and chief executive officer M Jack Sanders believes the acquisition will help ...
Revenues rose marginally by 1.8 percent at China-based sportswear marketer Xtep International Holdings Limited for six months ending June 30, 2014. At a press conference attended by Ding Shui Po and Terry Ho, CEO and CFO, respectively at ...
The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration says the IRS needs to do a better job collecting the medical device excise tax created under Obamacare. The inspector general looked at 5,107 Forms 720 from the first half of 2013 ...
Billabong International Limited said it had entered into binding documentation to sell its 51 percent stake in SurfStitch and its 100 percent ownership of Swell to a consortium of investors including SurfStitch founders Justin Cameron and ...
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The National Retail Federation (NRF) has lowered its retail sales forecast for 2014 because of slow growth recorded during the first half of the year, but said sales are expected to grow significantly faster over the next five months. NRF ...
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Apparels and home fashions off-price retailer, NYSE-listed The TJX Companies, Inc reported a 7% year-on-year hike in net sales to touch $6.9 billion in the second quarter ended August 2, 2014. Consolidated comparable store sales increased ...
Tough market conditions led to Swedish fashion retailer – Bjorn Borg, a marketer of innerwear and sportswear, witnessing decline across all key financial parameters including sales, net profit and EPS in the second quarter of 2014. ...
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The manifesto focuses on enabling the plastics recycling sector to meet the government’s low carbon manufacturing ambitions, which are central to meeting aspirations of a circular economy and resource efficiency. A series of ...
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nora systems has expanded its noraplan eco line with 16 colors. "The all-new color palette is the result of nora’s commitment to regularly review its product offerings and ensure that our floor coverings continue to align with ...
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Swiss fashion retailer, Charles Vögele Group succeeded in bringing the negative sales trend to a halt in its existing floor space in the first half of 2014, while EBITDA skyrocketed in the same period. Gross sales, after adjusting ...
The FDA wants medical device developers to join them in facilitating a smoother, quicker approval process. A proposed Medical Device Development Tools qualification process would affect measurement tools that assess medical device ...
RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has reached a defense production milestone, completing the Defense Production Act Title III Gallium Nitride on Silicon Carbide (GaN ...
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