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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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 ...
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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Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. reported Wednesday an adjusted loss per share of $(0.18) and a loss per share of $(0.23) for its fiscal 2014 first quarter ended November 30, 2013. Adjusted results for the first quarter exclude a $2 ...
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The Indian steel rim producer Steel Strips Wheels Ltd (SSWL) has announced that in December last year it sold 859,679 steel wheel rims, up by 12.5 percent compared to the same month of 2012. In the given month, the company's wheel rim ...
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The year 2013 was a blessing for Pakistan’s textile industry, especially for the spinners. The country’s spinners made the most out of their competitiveness over India, courtesy good production of short staple fibre. Din Textile ...
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Commercial Metals Company (CMC) announced Tuesday financial results for its first quarter ended November 30, 2013.? Net earnings for the first quarter were $45.9 million, or $0.39 per diluted share, on net sales of $1.7 billion.? This ...
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Americans' spending on health care rose a relatively modest 3.7 percent in 2012 -- slower than the growth of the overall economy -- dropping from 17.3 percent of U.S. spending to 17.2 percent, according to an annual report from the Centers ...
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Food and beverage company WhiteWave Foods has bought Earthbound Farm in a $600m all-cash deal. Earthbound Farm is an organic produce brand in North America. It produces and markets organic fresh fruits and vegetables, frozen fruits and ...
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G&K Services, Inc announced that it has sold its direct sale program business. Separately, the company also divested its operation in Ireland, which was the company’s last remaining clean room business. Total proceeds from the sales ...
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Given the rise in double digit inflation, soaring raw material prices and fuel cost, Secunderabad-based yarns producer Suryalata Spinning Mills Limited continued to find trading conditions difficult in the first six months of current ...
h.h.gregg said its decision to stay above the promotional fray during the holiday season hurt sales. According to preliminary estimates, net sales fell 11.6 percent to $707.1 million, and comp sales decreased 11.2 percent, for the third ...
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An HSBC survey showed on Thursday that the final reading of China's manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) stood at 50.5 in December, in line with its preliminary estimate. The data was down from 50.8 in November. A figure above ...
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China’s manufacturing activities in private and export-oriented companies grew in December at the slowest pace in three months, the latest evidence that structural reforms have slowed China’s economic growth, a survey showed ...
Medtronic has announced that it has acquired combination product specialist Tyrx (Monmouth Junction, NJ) for $160 million. Tyrx, a spin-off from Rutgers University, was launched in 1998 to develop products to combat surgical-site infections ...