During Apogee Enterprises Inc.'s Analyst and Investor Day in New York City today, senior management attributed the company's return of profitably in a down market to the increase of its architectural backlog. Jim Porter, chief financial ...
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The technology group SCHOTT has been supplying special glass to the Swabian manufacturer of baking ovens WIESHEU since 1979. To celebrate their long relationship, Thomas Nieraad, Senior Vice President Sales, Marketing Innovation SCHOTT Flat ...
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HOUSTON - Bedding retailer Mattress Firm said sales jumped more than 50% in the quarter ended Oct. 30 due largely to acquisitions and store openings. Same-store sales, however, also rose 6.6% in the quarter as the company continued to ...
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HOUSTON - Fast-growing bedding retailer Mattress Firm has agreed to acquire Mattress Source, a 28-store bedding specialty chain based in Charlotte, N.C. The deal, which is valued at about $11.2 million, will result in Mattress Source's ...
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Swiss chocolate products manufacturer Barry Callebaut has reported that its net profit for the fiscal year 2011/12 declined 8.5% to CHF241.1m ($255.49m), compared to CHF263.6m ($279.34m) in the same period the previous year, due to higher ...
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Given the accelerated transformation of the lighting market to semiconductor based products, Osram is pushing forward the entered path of its corporate reorganization. The company had already initiated a comprehensive corporate program in ...
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US-based food company General Mills has announced its plans to fuel growth in the US and around the world in the company's new fiscal year. The company expects fiscal 2013 to be another year of growth,with sales and profit increases on ...
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G-III Apparel Group,Ltd.today announced operating results for the third quarter of fiscal 2013 that ended October 31,2012. For the third quarter ended October 31,2012,G-III reported that net sales increased by 6.6%to$543.5 million ...
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Japanese car maker Mitsubishi Motors has reported net sales of 1,807.3bn yen ($22.4bn) for the fiscal year 2011, a marginal decrease of 1% compared to 1,828.5bn yen ($22.62bn) over the previous fiscal year. The decrease in sales was ...
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US based truck and engine maker Navistar is planning to stop operations at its Garland truck manufacturing facility by the first half of 2013 to reduce costs and optimise its manufacturing footprint. Upon closing the Garland operations, ...
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Mazda Motor and Fiat Group Automobiles have collaborated to develop a new roadster for the Mazda and Alfa Romeo brands based on Mazda's new MX-5 architecture. As per the agreement, both the carmakers will develop two different roadsters, ...
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Furniture, electronics and appliance retailer Conn's posted net income of $11.8 million or 35 cents per share in its fiscal third quarter as higher margins and a strong furniture and bedding business continued ...
Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA, which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries, has ranked 268th on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 (conducted by Deloitte ...
EV Group (EVG) a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, announced the completion of its newly expanded cleanroom IV facility at its corporate headquarters in ...
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Given the accelerated transformation of the lighting market to semiconductor based products, Osram is pushing forward the entered path of its corporate reorganization. The company had already initiated a comprehensive corporate program in ...
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