Advanced textiles producer and NYSE-listed – Albany International has announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has approved a quarterly dividend for holders of the Company’s common shares in the amount of $0.16 per ...
Tags: currency revaluation, Textile
Mid-market pan-European investor Aurelius has acquired Europe's leading ethical plastic bottle recycler Eco Plastics for an undisclosed amount. With this investment, Aurelius will supply its highly specialised operational improvement ...
Tags: Plastic Bottle, Eco Plastics, Agriculture
In the past two weeks, China's stock market, long the subject of neglect, became a public focus, indicating the likely arrival of a bull market period. From Nov. 24 to Dec.5, 2014, the Shanghai and Shenzhen composite indexes rose by 18.13 ...
Tags: Stock Market, bull market
ABBA lovers can now buy single records and recording studios instead of real estate. Money, Money, Money; Gimme, Gimme, Gimme; The Winner Takes It All. Use any or all of the above as you see fit to mark the arrival of an ABBA Monopoly ...
Tags: ABBA Monopoly, Toys
The BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index for November 2014 shows that overall shop prices reported deflation for the nineteenth consecutive month, unchanged at 1.9% in November. Non-food deflation slowed marginally to 2.9% in November from 3.1% in ...
Tags: Non-food prices, Furniture
Researchers at The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia) have achieved what is claimed to be record solar system energy conversion efficiency of 40.4% (presented on 8 December at the Australian PV Institute’s Asia-Pacific ...
Tags: Solar System, energy conversion, Electrical
Emcore Corp, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optics market, has named Jeffrey Rittichier as CEO. He succeeds Dr Hong Hou, who has served as president & CEO since March 2008. Rittichier has ...
Tags: fiber-optics, market, Electrical
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany says that the principal application of its new IR Oslux SFH 4780S (its first infrared emitter with a wavelength of 810nm) is biometric unlocking of cell phones and tablet computers. With ...
Tags: cell phones, tablet computers, Electrical
Posted in Medical Device Business by Chris Newmarker on December 11, 2014 2014 has turned out to be a pretty decent year for the world’s 40 largest medical device companies: Only six of them have seen their stock prices decline, and ...
Tags: Medical Device, Health
MeadWestvaco Corp. (MWV) has received a grant to provide its Medication Event Monitoring System (MEMS) to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in projects to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. MEMSCap Medication Event Monitoring System ...
Tags: Monitoring System, Packaging
Jobs from Underground Toys and The Marketing Store available. Are you seeking work within the toy industry? If so, ToyNews has a list of roles now live on our Jobs Board, found here. You can also follow @toynewsonline on Twitter for ...
Tags: toy industry, design roles, Toys
Clothing marketer, Gildan Activewear said it posted record earnings per share performance for the fourth fiscal quarter ended October 5, 2014 for any fiscal quarter in its history. Net earnings in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014 were ...
Tags: Clothing marketer, fiscal quarter, Apparel
Fonterra, New Zealand's dairy co-operative, has reduced the price it expects to pay farmers for milk, in response to the declining dairy prices in the international market. The price has been reduced to also deal with the glut in ...
Tags: Dairy, milk, Agriculture
There's less corn and fewer soybeans on hand in the U.S. right now than the trade expected heading into Wednesday's monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates and Crop Production report. Wednesday's WASDE report shows a ...
Tags: Grain Prices, Corn, Soybean
New categories in the organic sector in Australia have driven record growth in the $1.72 billion industry, according to a biennial industry report from organic certifying group Australian Organic. The Australian Organic Market Report is a ...
Tags: Organic Foods, Food