Benefited from the upturn of HD truck market and sales increase in hydraulic components, Weichai Power achieves stable growth in the first half year. According to the company's interim report, the business revenue in the first half year is ...
Tags: hydraulic components, Industrial Equipment, Components
Pfleiderer Grajewo kept its revenues stable and posted an increase in almost all key earnings figures compared with the prior-year period between January and June 2013. This came despite the rather unfavourable market climate in Poland. ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC, SEHK: 1398, and SHSE: 601398) revealed net profit attributable to parent shareholders of CNY 138.347 billion in the first half of 2013, rising 12.33% year on year, ranking number one in ...
Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China Limited (SHSE: 601318 and SEHK: 2318) revealed net profit attributable to shareholders of CNY 17.91 billion in the first half of 2013, rising 28.3% year on year. EPS were CNY 2.26. Net assets per ...
Tags: Insurance
Will the deal between Apollo Tyres Ltd. and Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. go through? We will find out Sept. 30, 2013, when Cooper holds a special meeting of stockholders to consider and vote on the previously announced merger. Cooper ...
Tags: Apollo Deal, Cooper Shareholders
Phoenix Software has revealed that public sector enquiries about purchasing Microsoft Surface hardware has "surged" since Microsoft gave the licensing, software and infrastructure solutions firm permission to sell the devices only two weeks ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Investment bank Morgan Stanley is delaying a planned upgrade of its BlackBerry smartphones because of fears about the Canadian firm's ability to support the latest BlackBerry 10 platform over the long term, according to Bloomberg. Two ...
Tags: Computer Products, BlackBerry, smartphone
A week after Steve Ballmer said he plans to step down as CEO of Microsoft, ValueAct Capital, one of its biggest investors, has secured the right to appoint its president to Microsoft's board. Microsoft has signed a "cooperation agreement" ...
Tags: Microsoft Board, Computer Products
New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has found that Fonterra’s whey protein concentrate ingredient and the products made using it, including infant formula, were free from Clostridium botulinum. MPI has carried ...
Tags: Fonterra, Botulinum Concerns
Directors of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. have declared a quarterly dividend of 5.875% or 73.44 cents per share of mandatory convertible preferred stock for the eighth consecutive quarter. The dividend is payable Oct. 1, 2013, to ...
Tags: Auto Parts, tyre
Furniture Brands International's stock began trading on the OTCQB Marketplace today under the ticker symbol FBNI. The move follows an Aug. 23 announcement that the company planned to voluntarily delist its common stock from the New York ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
The shareholders of American Safety Insurance Holdings (ASI) have approved the agreement and plan of merger of the company with Fairfax Bermuda Holdings. The agreement was signed on 2 June 2013, whereas it was amended on 7 August 2013. ...
Tags: Safety Insurance, Fairfax
Furi Electronics will be holding a shareholders’ meeting on Sept. 2 to decide on the company’s private investments to acquire 92.8% of MR LED Photoelectricity Co. stock shares. “If all goes well, the MR ...
Canada-based Maple Leaf Foods has entered into an agreement to sell Rothsay, its rendering and biodiesel business, to Darling International of Irving, Texas, for C645m ($614.11m). This move is a part of the Maple Leaf Foods' plan to focus ...
Tags: Maple Leaf Foods, Food
Fonterra has temporarily suspended its consumer operations in Sri Lanka after it faced allegations that some of its milk products were contaminated. The protests comes after claims by the Sri Lankan authorities that some of Fonterra's ...
Tags: Fonterra, milk products