John Lewis reports a strong week of trade, a fitting testament to its 150th anniversary. The retailer saw 14.5% growth on last year, with "brisk" trade coming from both shops and online. Online sales grew by 33%, with Click & collect ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Data from the 115 Canton fair , the number of overseas buyers has achieved a good growth of 10%. At the time when merchants decline in Europe, the number of customers from Africa and Asia have significant growing, and the Asian buyers ...
Tags: Stationery
For first quarter 2014, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $90.8m, up 24% on $73.2m last quarter and 47% on $61.8m a year ago. Growth was driven mainly by ...
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China’s manufacturing contracted in April for the fourth straight month but the pace of decline was less severe, suggesting the downturn in the world’s No. 2 economy is bottoming out. HSBC’s purchasing managers’ ...
According to the short-range outlook report issued by IREPAS, the global association of producers and exporters of long steel products, the global long steel products market is still characterized by uncertainty amid the adverse effects of ...
Tags: Long Steel Demand, steel products
Indian steelmaker Essar Steel has announced that it is merging its steel processing center and distribution unit with Essar Hypermart, its retail chain for steel, in order to cut costs, expand its business reach and deliver products to ...
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In Sweden, industrial production decreased by 3.8 percent in March this year compared to February and declined by 4.5 percent year on year in working day-adjusted figures, according to Statistics Sweden (SCB). On the other hand, the ...
Tags: Basic Metal, metal industry
In the first quarter of this year, order bookings in the German machine tool industry increased by 10 percent year on year, according to the German Machine Tool Builders' Association (VDW). Given the dominance of the German industry in the ...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has demonstrated gallium nitride (GaN) vertical Schottky and p-n diodes on silicon Si substrates “for the first time” [Yuhao Zhang et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online ...
Tags: GaN, MOCVD, Gallium Nitride Diodes
Seattle-based Nordstrom, Inc., has launched nordstromrack.com, a new e-commerce site and mobile app, built on a shared platform with HauteLook, Nordstrom's flash sale business. The new site gives customers access to shop Nordstrom Rack ...
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The market for large-sized liquid-crystal display (LCD) panels is set for a moderate seasonal decline in the first quarter after a busy end-of-year in 2013 that saw record shipments for TV and tablet panels, according to a new report from ...
For first-quarter 2014, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €43.9m, down 14% on €51.1m last quarter but up 9% on €40.2m a year ago. Of total revenue, 73% (€32.1m) came from ...
Tags: Aixtron MOCVD, LED, Electrical, Electronics, deposition equipment
In April this year, the purchasing managers index (PMI) for the Chinese steel sector stood at 52.6 percent, surging by 8.4 percentage points as compared to March and exceeding the 50 percent threshold for the first time since September ...
Tags: Steel Sector, PMI
North American heavy and medium-duty truck orders slowed down in April from March, but are still up compared to the same time last year, freight forecasters at ACT Research said. ACT's analysts predict that about 17,800 North America ...
Tags: Truck, Auto, Transportation, heavy Truck, medium-duty truck
Krones, the world’s market leader for beverage filling and packaging technology, achieved its targets for key financial performance indicators and continued to grow profitably in 2013. Revenue rose 5.7% year-on-year, from ...