In the first quarter 2013, Dufry’s turnover grew by 1.7% to CHF 736.4 million. EBITDA for the period reached CHF 85.3 million and EBITDA margin reached 11.6%. Net cash flow from operations in the first quarter 2013 was CHF 94.5 ...
When Anita Mahaffey set out to make some of the coolest pajamas in the world, finding a great name for her company was the easy part. She called it Cool-jams. Mahaffey’s business plan was an immediate hit. Sales and profits have ...
Tags: Apparel Innovators, Apparel
Las Vegas Market organizers have adjusted the dates of the winter 2014 market to a Sunday-through-Thursday schedule, Jan. 26-30, which moves up the start and end by one day. "After careful consideration of the feedback we received from ...
Tags: Las Vegas, Furniture, Furnishing
Volvo Australia is offering new vehicle buyers several sweeteners before the end of the financial year including free servicing, fuel and roadside assistance. Dubbed Volvo Freedom, the special offer includes three years free scheduled ...
Charging motorists to use roads would decrease traffic congestion and improve the efficiency of our capital cities, a report claims. The report, ‘Productive cities: Opportunity in a changing economy’ by the Grattan Institute, ...
A global trend has caught fire that offers travel and outdoor enthusiasts an upgrade on rest and recreation. It's called glamping, a new term for a new kind of travel, originally defined as glamorous camping. Now the term glamping is ...
You wake up in the morning and your robot starts the coffee maker and then sends the daily calendar to the car. The car then works on a plan that makes sure you keep to that schedule. It's not a scene out of a sci-fi movie. It's the ...
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A Qualcomm executive Friday defended Windows RT tablets despite poor initial sales, saying the mobile device chip maker is "very optimistic with the future of Win RT." Qualcomm currently supplies ARM-based Snapdragon processors for ...
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Cannondale’s planned mid-summer move of its headquarters from Bethel, Connecticut, a few miles down Route 7 to Norwalk has local dealers cautiously optimistic. While the company hasn't officially announced the move, several local ...
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The Exchange; Waco, Texas Size: 650,000 square feet Products: General merchandise SKUs: 18,000 Throughput: Ships 25,000 cases per day Shifts: 2 shifts a day/5 days per week Employees: 400 A new conveyor and sortation system ...
Even though winter is over, our cold-weather testing continues. We've just completed two tests with our latest tire group: stopping on ice and resistance to hydroplaning on standing water. And as the testing rolls on, we wanted to share ...
Tags: Auto, Auto Parts
Ceramics is widely used in our everyday lives, from food, clothes, housing, travel, education, music, art... and so on. Below we have provided brief description of its use with "food, clothes, housing and travel". Ceramics is ...
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About half of the world's companies will enact BYOD (bring your own device) programs by 2017 and will no longer provide computing devices to employees, a new Gartner report predicts. Ultimately, only 15% of companies will never move to a ...
Ten years ago, most cell phones had single-color displays, and they were primarily used to make phone calls. Now glance at the phone in your pocket, think about its capabilities beyond dialing a number, and you will have some sense of the ...
Tags: Light-Directed Activities, Fulfillment, Processing Machinery
HSBC Middle East has inked an exclusive agreement with Zurich Insurance Middle East for distribution of its personal and commercial general insurance products in the UAE over the next ten years. Involving distribution in other Middle East ...
Tags: General Insurance, HSBC