The Board of Directors of Attock Cement Pakistan Limited (ACPL) has informed the Karachi Stock Exchange that the company intends to invest around $25 million in a new cement grinding unit in Basra, Iraq. The announcement was made through a ...
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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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Infiniti says becoming a leader in vehicle quality is fundamental to the brand's goal of tripling global sales within five years and establishing itself as a serious player in the luxury market. Automotive News reports the directive comes ...
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Dairy Crest is poised for UK growth after the sale of its French spreads business, chief executive Mark Allen has confirmed. Dairy Crest results were 'modestly ahead of expectations', said Panmure Gordon Allen said: "The sale of our ...
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Dorel CEO and president Martin Schwartz told shareholders at the company's annual meeting Thursday morning that despite the slow start to the year—which he attributed to bad weather that persisted through April—he remains ...
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HP's shares rose after the world's largest PC maker's quarterly results beat analysts' low expectations, as CEO Meg Whitman's restructuring programme begins to take shape. The Palo Alto, California-based firm's profits for the second ...
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Warren East, the former CEO of chip designer ARM, is to join a new quango whose purpose is to boost innovation in the UK's "digital economy". East will assume the role of non-executive director of Connected Digital Economy Catapult ...
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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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Apple will build Macs in Texas using some parts made in the U.S., CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday, putting a little flesh on a pledge from last December. In a prepared statement Cook read before a Senate subcommittee yesterday, the chief ...
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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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Samsung Electronics has reported global channel sales of over 10 million units of the Galaxy S4 in less than a month after its global launch. The new smartphone from the Samsung stable has outstripped its predecessors in first-month ...
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According to a report released by China's Ministry of Finance on May 22, in the January-April period of the current year the aggregate gross revenue of China state-owned enterprises totaled RMB 14.0015 trillion ($2.28 trillion), up 10.2 ...
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Hewlett-Packard reported a 32% drop in profit for its second fiscal quarter, due partly to slower sales of PCs and servers. HP's revenue for the quarter, ended April 30, was $27.6 billion, down 10% from the same period last year, the ...
A SHOCK contraction in Chinese manufacturing and the prospect that the US Federal Reserve could soon unwind its quantitative easing measures rocked local markets yesterday, pushing the Australian dollar close to an annual low and wiping ...
The European Commission is likely to require more concessions from Google in an ongoing antitrust probe, the European Union's Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said. The Commission is now analyzing proposals that Google submitted ...