Food and beverage company Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) has announced a net profit after tax of $502.8 million, before significant items. Net profit after tax (including significant items) decreased by 82.5 per cent to $79.9 million for the twelve ...
Tags: operating cost structure, Results Decline, Capital Expenditure
A year after inking a deal with new machine partner Breville, Nespresso has unveiled its newest line-up of capsule coffee machines, due to hit the market in time for Mother’s Day. Produced for the Australian market in association with ...
Tags: Coffee Machines, light-weight design, design
BASF increased sales and earnings in 2013 compared with the previous year. “2013 was again a demanding year, with a lot of headwind for our industry. Nevertheless, we achieved our goal: We sold more, worked more closely together with ...
Tags: BASF, Construction Coating
Juniper Networks has announced a new integrated operating plan (IOP) to refocus the company on high growth segments in the networking industry. The plan attempts to streamline R&D and go-to-market programs, drive efficiencies in all ...
Tags: Juniper, integrated operating plan
Facebook, in a major push to expand its business on smaller screens, has agreed to buy the mobile messaging app WhatsApp for US$16 billion, the companies said Wednesday. Facebook plans to pay $12 billion in shares and $4 billion in cash ...
Land O'Lakes, Inc., today announced record annual sales of $14.2 billion, up 4.4 percent from the prior year, and record net earnings of almost $306 million, a 27 percent increase over the prior year. The strong 2013 results continue a ...
Tags: Land O'lakes, Annual Sales
Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $41.5m for full-year 2013, down 38% on $67.2m for 2012. ...
Tags: optical products, increasing utilization, competitive landscape
Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation, a leading sporting goods retailer, reported financial results for the fiscal 2013 fourth quarter and full year ended December 29, 2013. Highlights: -Achieves Fourth Quarter Earnings per Diluted Share ...
Tags: Big 5 Sporting Goods, Apparel
UK-based renowned fashion and retail industry consultant Mary Portas’ lingerie line Kinky Knickers is expected to go back into production as the manufacturing firm producing the line Headen & Quarmby has been bought out of ...
Tags: retail industry, fashion industry
Specialty chemicals company LANXESS has undergone impairment tests, according to IAS 36, that result in exceptional charges of EUR 257 million in the fourth quarter of 2013. Due to the expected development of overcapacities, as well as ...
Tags: LANXESS, Specialty chemicals
The Solvay Group announces its 4th quarter and full year 2013 Business Review Q4 Highlights • Group net sales at € 2,417 m, down (5)% yoy, with volumes (1)%, prices (3)%, forex (4)% and scope 3%. Allowing for CER phase ...
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A streetwear clothing store in Bergenfield, N.J., will sell you a camouflage hoodie for about 0.10862 bitcoin. It's received bitcoins for online orders, but so far no one has walked into the Jeffersons storefront and asked to pay with it. ...
Tags: transactions, market niche, form of payment
Royal DSM, the Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company reported final, audited, results for 2013. These results confirm the preliminary, unaudited results DSM published on 21 January 2014. DSM also issues its Integrated Annual Report, ...
Tags: Life Sciences, Materials Sciences
Rumors have been swirling since news broke this week of a possible meeting between Apple's top executive for acquisitions and the CEO of electric car maker Tesla. Citing a person familiar with the matter, The San Francisco Chronicle ...
Tags: iCar, new model, Google Maps, Tesla
Cutting-edge mobile phone technology is set to revolutionise the way people shop, bringing a range of new and complex challenges for retailers, according to new research by Dr Emmeline Taylor, senior lecturer in criminology with the ANU ...