In June, shopper numbers in Northern Ireland were 11.8% higher than a year ago, up on the 9.2% rise in May 2014, reports the Northern Ireland Retail Consortium-Springboard Footfall Monitor. Northern Ireland continues to have the highest ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Economy
Footfall in June was 0.7% down on a year ago, down on the 0.2% fall in May and below the three-month average of a 0.3% decline, according to the British Retail Consortium-Springboard Footfall Monitor. Footfall on the high street was 1.7% ...
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Philips' has announced its LED-based sales grew 43 per cent during Q2. This area now represents 36 percent of total lighting sales, compared to 25 per cent in Q2 2013. The Q2 report also shows lighting comparable sales increased 1 per ...
China's coal production and sales were lower in June, compared with year-ago levels and the previous month, data released Wednesday by the China National Coal Association showed, as sluggish demand and falling prices weighed on miners. ...
The Outdoor Furniture Manufacturing industry has suffered over the past five years due to lackluster recovery and high import competition, and smaller enterprises in the United States will struggle over the next five years, as they lack the ...
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Following cylindrical cells price and volume usage declines, supply and demand for the technology is expected to remain flat in the second quarter of 2014, due to lowered supply coupled with slight demand increases. Additionally, ...
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Global notebook shipments dropped 4.9% in the second quarter of 2014, according to Digitimes Research. Despite the end of Windows XP bringing about a surge of notebook orders, panels and some key components were in limited supply, and ...
The market share of LEDs in street lighting worldwide will grow from 53.3% in 2014 to 93.8% in 2023, as falling prices for LED street lights are spurring a global transition from older lamp technologies to newer, more efficient, and more ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Street Lighting, LED
Zumtobel Group LED sales rose by 52.6 per cent compared to last year to €419 million. LED products now account for 33.6 per cent of revenues. These figures from the company’s 2013/14 financial results correlate with the ...
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In the first four months of this year, Spanish steel exports amounted to 3.2 million mt, up 6.9 percent year on year, while the value of these exports totaled €2.44 million, according to the Spanish steelmakers association Unesid. ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after F. Dzerzhinsky (DMKD), a subsidiary of Ukrainian steel producer Industrial Union of Donbass (ISD), plans to increase its production in the current month. In particular, in July DMKD plans to ...
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Prices of imported iron ore in China have continued to decline since the start of the summer, while domestic crude steel output is still at high levels amid increases in steel exports, though domestic demand for steel products has remained ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron Ore
Swiss-headquartered resources company Ferrexpo, whose main interests are in Ukrainian iron ore assets, has announced that in the second quarter of the current year its overall iron ore pellet production decreased by 5.3 percent year on year ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron Ore, Steel
In the January-June period this year, Ukraine-based Azovstal, a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, saw a 10.6 percent decrease in its crude steel production to 2.040 million mt and a 17.3 ...
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The report includes data about production, consumption and the trade of pulp, paper and raw materials, as well as data on energy and environment. CEPI members produced 91.1 million tonnes of paper and board in 2013. This is a decrease ...