Amer Sports reported net sales reached €501.5 million in the quarter ended March 30, an increase of 6 percent in local currency, or currency-neutral, terms. The owner of Acr'teryx, Salomon, Suunto and other outdoor sporting goods ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Deckers Outdoor Corp. reported sales increased 11.7 percent in its three-month transition period ended Mar. 31, to $294.7 million, led by a 15.8 percent gain for Ugg. Deckers showed a loss of $2.7 million, or 8 cents a share, better than ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Outdoor Goods
To mark Eurocucina 2014 Ernestomeda, leader in the high end designer kitchen market, presented the new SOUL kitchen and the new ICON layouts. Both designs are the work of Giuseppe Bavuso, with whom Ernestomeda is continuing the successful ...
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It seems that a fight is looming over a seat on Echo Therapeutics Inc.'s board of directors. The company's largest shareholder, an investor group led by Platinum Management (NY), LLC, which owns approximately 19.9% of Echo's common ...
Chinese iron ore importers on Monday denied they were under pressure to sell their port stocks so that they repay their debts to the country's banks, refuting recent local media reports. The importers added that the price of the more than ...
Tags: Iron Ore, steel mills
PPG Industries reported record first quarter 2014 net sales from continuing operations of $3.6 billion, up $528 million, or 17 percent, versus the prior year. First quarter 2014 reported net income from continuing operations was $277 ...
Tags: PPG, Construction, Decoration
The global 40W equivalent LED bulb ASP dipped slightly by 1.3% in March to US$14.90, with the price decrease most evident in China, according to LEDinside. The ASP for 60W equivalent LED bulbs did not fluctuate and remained at US$20.80. ...
Nine West Holdings, Inc. announced the expiration and final results of the previously announced private offer to certain eligible holders to exchange (the "Exchange Offer") any and all of the outstanding 6.875% Senior Notes due 2019 (CUSIP ...
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Chinese automobile manufacturer Great Wall Motors (GWM) has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with power management company Eaton over new vehicle technologies. As part of the deal, the companies will jointly work on technical ...
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In the 165th year of its history, Freudenberg, the internationally active family company, was more successful than ever before. In the 2013 financial year, the technology group reported record sales for the fourth year in succession, on the ...
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As tech clichés go, “big data” falls somewhere between “cloud” and “social” on the list of terms you’re probably tired of hearing — ideas so broad they mean hardly anything at all. ...
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A lack of investment interest in gold is starting to take its toll on the price, with an average of $1,225/oz forecast for 2014 and heading lower in 2015, GFMS said Thursday in its Gold Survey 2014. The price forecast is 13% lower than ...
Tags: Gold Price, Physical demand
The seaborne iron ore market reversed losses Thursday, as an influx of buying activity suddenly emerged in the spot market. Platts assessed the 62% Fe Iron Ore Index at $116.25/dry mt CFR North China Thursday, up $1.50/dmt from Wednesday. ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Interest Resurfaces, spot market
China-based white-box tablet vendors have become increasingly competitive in the face of international vendors by offering a host of hardware upgrades, such as LTE support, ultra-thin bezels and 13-megapixel cameras, according to ...
Tags: White-Box Tablet, LTE Support
Russian steel producer Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has stated that it has signed an international cooperation agreement with Russia's Economic Development Ministry. Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukaev and MMK's CEO ...
Tags: steel producer, Iron, Steel