Luxottica said it set a new net sales record of more than €7.3 billion in 2013, an increase of 7.5 percent in currency-neutral (c-n) terms and 3.2 percent at current exchange rates compared to 2012. ADVERTISEMENT The Italian ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, eyewear
U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) used a special Town Hall session hosted by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Wednesday to issue a call for both new patent legislation and immigration reform to help drive capital investment and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Guinness Peat Group plc released its preliminary financial results for the year ended 31 December 2013, incorporating the 2013 preliminary results for Coats plc, the world’s leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts ...
Tags: Guinness Peat, Threads Maker
Mexican steel producer DeAcero released a request Thursday that the US Department of Commerce avoid trade disputes with Mexico and focus on the defense of NAFTA regions, which receive unfair imports from China and the European Union. In ...
Tags: DeAcero, Rebar Mills
Bauer Performance Sports Ltd. entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Easton Baseball/Softball business for US $330 million in an all-cash transaction, subject to a working capital adjustment. Easton-Bell Sports also indicated ...
Knight Transportation Inc. has agreed not to acquire any additional stake in USA Truck Inc. for the next seven months as part of a lawsuit settlement, the carriers said. The settlement ends a court case USA Truck had filed after Knight ...
Tags: Knight, Truck Takeover, Transportation
Google has exited the smartphone manufacturing business and shored up Android's legal defenses in the smartphone patent wars in a single week. The technology giant sold off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo in a US $12.5-billion deal on Wednesday ...
December 2013 saw a UK first with the launch of a Government endorsed, industry-led initiative from ACID (Anti Copying in Design) with the launch of ACID Marketplace – a safer online IP platform where design buyers can view the latest ...
Tags: IP platform, work with clients
The Android ecosystem and wearable technology will probably get a boost from the patent deal Google and Samsung have struck, but the agreement is unlikely to have an influence on Samsung’s intellectual property disputes with Apple, ...
Two Colorado farmers who pleaded guilty to six counts of introducing contaminated cantaloupe to interstate commerce in one of the deadliest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history have asked a federal judge for probation sentences. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Arlington, Va. – Gary Shapiro, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) president and CEO, formally praised a recently U.S. Supreme Court decision to hear a lawsuit brought by the nation’s largest television broadcasters against ...
Tags: Gary Shapiro, Consumer Electronics Association, Aereo TV
Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, is voluntarily recalling all lots of Liptruzet (ezetimibe and atorvastatin) 10/10 mg, 10/20 mg, 10/40 mg and 10/80 mg tablets in the United States, including Puerto Rico, ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Medicine Packaging
In October 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a draft risk assessment on the levels of contaminants in spices. The report made headlines nationwide for including the finding that 12 percent of spices imported to the U.S. ...
L-3 MAPPS announced today that it has signed a contract with Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Co., Ltd. (GNPJVC) to replace the input/output (I/O) system on the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station full scope simulator’s main control ...
Tags: L-3 MAPPS, Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture, I/O System
Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. said it will pursue damages against Apollo Tyres Ltd. in a webcast following the announcement of its decision to terminate the merger agreement. The company answered questions previously submitted by investors, ...
Tags: Auto Parts, tyre, tire