The largest U.S. full-line sporting goods retailer with an estimated 8.5% market share from nearly $6 billion in FY12 revenues and a five-year CAGR of 8% on sales, has four clear goals—reaching a double-digit operating margin; ...
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Thompson Pump has announced that Bobby Thompson is their Branch Manager of the Year. Of the 21 Thompson Pump branch operations nationwide, Bobby Thompson is the manager of the Panama City, FL location and recently was promoted to ...
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After their expectations reached a 24-year low in the previous quarter, businesses are indicating that price rises are on the agenda in the new financial year as they seek to retain profits while compensating for cost pressures and low ...
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Intel have something in common: They all came late to the mobile revolution. Why? Because they're companies where management is top-down and responsibility for innovation and change is ...
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The recent announcement by Alliance Boots that it was to cut 200 jobs at its Beeston factory in Nottinghamshire over a two-year period has raised questions about its longstanding involvement in contract packaging. The factory, which until ...
Last year’s Fibre of our Nation competition winners, Chad and Louise Taylor of Wellington, NSW, have recently returned to Australia after a visit to New York where they enthusiastically discussed helping to build the demand for wool ...
Turkmenistan’s textile sector has recorded a growth rate of 105.4 percent in the first four months of 2013, Trend.az reported quoting Turkmen Government data. From January to April, Turkmenistan textile industry registered sales ...
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The cycling industry marketing services company founded by Jasen Thorpe two years ago has a new name, a new website and a new employee. Thorpe has changed his company's name from Thorpe Media to Thorpe Marketing and launched ...
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, Mass., and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have received a grant through the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center program to ...
The Mann Group has launched a new training program for retailers in the cycling, outdoor and running industries. Mann University is a five-module curriculum that will run in four sessions in 2013. The three-day program is designed to help ...
In the January-April period of this year, the aggregate gross profits of large and medium-sized industrial enterprises in China amounted to RMB 1.61069 trillion ($261 billion), increasing by 11.4 percent year on year, according to China's ...
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The 2013 DHL Export Barometer reveals the continuing hurdles of a strong Australian dollar and a plunging business outlook from the mining sector have impacted exporters’ profitability outlook but not their confidence. Exporter ...
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The Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI), a nationally recognized standards development and credentialing organization, was recently accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as a national certifying body for its ...
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Group is "moving in the right direction" says chairman, as results for FY12/13 revealed. Mothercare executives have said that the infant and nursery retailer is making "good progress" after the first year of its 'Transformation and ...
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Sony will leverage its streaming technology to bring PlayStation games to devices other than dedicated consoles as part of its ongoing turnaround, but said gaming profits will still suffer and lowered sales targets for its smartphones and ...
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