US action sportswear retailer Pacific Sunwear of California has cut its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings outlook, citing a "choppy" holiday season. Comparable sales in the company's quarter ended 4 January were flat, the company said ...
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Shoe Carnival saw it share price slide yesterday after the US footwear retailer lowered its fourth-quarter earnings guidance. The company said it expects earnings per diluted share in the fourth quarter to be in the range of US$0.03 to ...
The Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group (Vinatex) has set a target to achieve 12 percent growth in exports this year, reports Vietnam Plus. Although economic difficulties are forecast for 2014, Vietnam’s apparel sector is ...
UK-based rigid plastic packaging supplier RPC Group has acquired injection moulded rigid plastic packaging specialist Helioplast in a deal worth £8.4m. UK-based rigid plastic packaging supplier RPC Group has acquired injection ...
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RPM International Inc. today reported record sales, net income and diluted earnings per share for its fiscal 2014 second quarter ended November 30, 2013, driven by volume increases in both its industrial and consumer segments and improved ...
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Macy's, Inc. announced that its comparable sales, together with comparable sales from departments licensed to third parties, rose 4.3 percent in the 2013 holiday shopping season the months of November and December combined compared with the ...
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On January 30, 2014, KEMET Corporation (NYSE: KEM) will release earnings for the December 2013 quarter and will hold a conference call to discuss the earnings release at 9:00 a.m. EST on that date. The call will last approximately one hour. ...
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Macy's announced late Wednesday record holiday sales while simultaneously cutting 2,500 jobs and detailing plans to close five stores. As reported in Retailing Today, the nation's leading department store retailer late Wednesday issued ...
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AVX Corporation (NYSE: AVX) has scheduled to release its preliminary quarterly results for the period ended December 31, 2013 before the New York Stock Exchange opens on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 and will hold a conference call at 10:00 ...
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Anticipation of higher earnings in fiscal 2014 is buoying Japanese electronics stocks, with Hitachi, Panasonic, and many others outstripping their own 2013 market performance in the new year. On Wednesday, 178 issues on the Tokyo Stock ...
L Brands, Inc. reported net sales of $2.098 billion for the five weeks ended Jan. 4, 2014, compared to net sales of $1.947 billion for the five weeks ended Dec. 29, 2012. The company reported a comparable store sales increase of 2 percent ...
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The Cato Corporation reported sales for the five weeks ended January 4, 2014 of $100.1 million, a 3% decrease from sales of $103.3 million for the five weeks ended December 29, 2012. Same-store sales for the month decreased 4%. Sales for ...
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U.S. adults without a high school diploma are living sicker, shorter lives than ever before -- especially white women, researchers say. Researchers at the Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Society and Health and the Robert Wood ...
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As the surprisingly rough start of trading this year suggests, continued gains in Japanese stocks are premised on a delicate balance of factors. For the first time in six years, the market did not ring in the New Year on Monday, the ...
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Samsung Electronics' operating profits for the last quarter of 2013 are expected to have declined due to sluggish growth in the global smartphone market. Under the circumstances, companies supplying Samsung Electronics with handset ...
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