For the first quarter ended March 31, 2015, operating income soared 24 per cent year on year at apparel marketer and NASDAQ listed, Columbia Sportswear Company. According to a Columbia Sportswear press release, first quarter of 2015 ...
Shoppers Stop Ltd (SSL), an India based operator of various retail formats reported a revenue jump of 9 per cent from the year ago quarter in the fourth fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2015. In a press release, SSL said it recorded a ...
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For the first fiscal quarter ended April 4, 2015, sales at NYSE listed VF Corporation dropped 2 per cent on reported basis, but was up 8 per cent on currency neutral basis, both comparisons made from a year ago quarter. Gross margin ...
Lower capacity utilisation drove down operating earnings by 23 per cent year over year at the fibre division of Eastman Chemical in the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. “First quarter of 2015 operating earnings dived to $90 ...
Ethiopia based Awassa Textile will undertake an expansion project under which it will double its production through an investment of Birr 168 million. According to a leading Ethiopian daily, to undertake the expansion, Awassa Textile ...
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For first-quarter 2015, AXT Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which makes gallium arsenide, indium phosphide and germanium substrates and raw materials, has reported revenue of $20.1m, up 2.5% on $19.6m last quarter and 4% on $19.3m a year ago. ...
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After a booming year, the bull run of China's stock market is expected to continue, boosted by economic and financial reforms in addition to easing measures. China's stock market has soared over the past year, even as the world's second ...
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Beijing Tongrentang (TRT) Co Ltd, a renowned traditional Chinese medicine maker, earned 239.74 million yuan ($39.17 million) in net profits in the first quarter of 2015, up 13.72 percent from the previous year. The company filed its ...
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China's small and micro enterprises saved 24 billion yuan ($3.92 billion) in the first quarter of 2015 due to preferential tax policies, the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) said on Monday. Statistics from SAT showed that a total of ...
Bough Lin, chairman of Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), has predicted that the semiconductor market is unlikely to return to its seasonal growth pattern until the third quarter of 2015. A seasonal pick-up in demand usually starts ...
The slow recovery of the global PV market continues into the second quarter. Jason Huang, research manager for EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, said the market on the whole is showing positive signs even though prices along the supply ...
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Output of China's building materials sector fell in the first quarter as the property market remained weak, the country's top economic planner indicated on Wednesday. Cement output was down 3.4 percent year on year to 428 million tons, ...
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First-quarter steel exports surged 40.7 percent to 25.78 million metric tons as mills responded to weak domestic demand and falling prices, the China Iron and Steel Association said on Wednesday. "Although domestic steel companies face ...
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67699 heavy trucks were sold in March this year, up 145.72% over last month and down 30.27% over last year, and the accumulated sales this year decreased by 33.66% over last year. And the top three truck makers are Dongfeng, Sinotruk and ...
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Sales of Foton Aumark increased by 40.7% in 2014, leading China light truck industry, although the general sales are rather bad. And the sales of Aumark amount to 42% over last year in the first quarter, whereas China truck industry is ...