Victoria PLC reports the following update on trading for the six months to 29 September 2012 ahead of its Half-yearly results to be announced in mid-November 2012. Trading throughout the Group has been satisfactory, particularly in the ...
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Despite poor performance on the high street this summer, 86% of UK retailers are either optimistic about or undaunted by Christmas trading prospects this year and 85% see strong or steady company growth levels in 2013. This was revealed ...
Tags: retailers, Fair, Christmas, trading season
The current summer-holiday period in the German federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Saxony mainly set the tone in mid-August for activity on southern German softwood-lumber markets, while the holidays have finished or are ...
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Now that the holiday period has begun in a number of northern and eastern German states, business activity has also continued to decrease on the regional sales markets for flat wooden pallets in the last three to four weeks. Manufacturers ...
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But the leading manufacturer of CMOS image sensors still sees a need to diversify outside of consumer applications. Diversification strategy:medical applications OmniVision Technologies has reported a strong sequential increase in ...
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Demand for Russian and Eastern European birch plywood on sales markets in Central and Western Europe has still shown no noticeable recovery up until the end of October. Since the softening of demand in August, which was initially attributed ...
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In the past few days the sentiment on the sellers' side has begun to firm up in Italy's local PE market as per the plastics pricing service ChemOrbis. Following the earlier price cuts, some traders in Italy are now revising their prices ...