Chinese homebuyers have driven housing prices and developers’ stocks skywards in the past decade but that has been clearly over for more than a year. Official economic data released on Wednesday showed the slowdown in the sector ...
Tags: Red-Hot Property, Homebuyers
Spot import premiums for London Metal Exchange-registered brands of copper cathode on a CIF China basis slipped for a second consecutive week, dampened by persistently weak physical buying interest during the current summer lull, market ...
Tags: Metal, Copper, Metallurgy
Ecommerce sales accounted for 6.3% of total revenue at DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc., the largest U.S. based full-line omni-channel sporting, including apparel goods retailer in the second quarter ended August 2, 2014, up from 5.6% in the ...
Tags: Dick's Sporting, apparel goods
RLM Apparel Software Systems Inc., solutions provider to the fashion industry’s most important brands, has launched an easily accessible Financial Statement Report Designer for its leading FashionManager enterprise software solution. ...
Tags: RLM Apparel Software Systems, Report Designer, Textile
For its fiscal first-quarter 2015 (to 28 June 2014), RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has reported record revenue of $316.3m, up 23.6% on $256m last quarter and up 8% on $293m a year ago (and well above the $305m forecast at the ...
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For second-quarter 2014, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €46.2m, rebounding by 5% from €43.9m last quarter (which had been down 14% on the previous quarter) and up 2% on €45.3m ...
Tags: Aixtron, MOCVD, Electronics
Toll’s revenue increased 1.1 per cent over the previous year to $8.8 billion. Total earnings before interest and tax (before individually significant items) were up 4.3 per cent to $444.4 million, and net profit after tax (before ...
Tags: Toll, Challenges, Service
Santa Clara, CA – September 1, 2014 – Expandable Software, Inc., a leading provider of integrated business management systems for growing medical device and high tech manufacturers, announced today its release of Expandable ERP ...
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For fiscal third-quarter 2014 (ended 27 June), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $587m, up 22% on $481m last quarter and 34.6% on $436.1m a year ...
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For its fiscal third-quarter 2014 (to end-May), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $4.6m, up 11% on $4.2m last quarter and 31% on $3.5m a year ago. Revenue from LED chips fell by 44% ...
Vestis Retail Group, LLC and its wholly owned subsidiary, Everest Merger Sub have completed a cash tender offer, for all outstanding Class A and Class B shares of NASDAQ listed Sport Chalet, Inc. Vestis said, the transaction was completed ...
Tags: Vestis Retail, Sport Chalet, Apparel
Amcor's statutory profit for the year ended 30 June 2014 from continuing operations was $737.00 million, a surge in profit of 24.6% over the previous year's result - $589.20 million. Earnings per share (EPS) was boosted by 24.7% to 61.1 ...
The results, for the three months and six months ending 30 June 2014, revealed robust capital structure with annualised cash interest reduced to €135m Additionally, interim dividend increased by 50% to 15.375 cent, which SKG said ...
Tags: Smurfit Kappa, SKG, Packaging
Brazil Fast Food Corp, one of the largest food service groups in Brazil with 1,235 points of sale, operating under (i) the Bob's brand, (ii) the Yoggi brand, (iii) KFC and Pizza Hut São Paulo as franchisee of Yum! Brands, and (iv) ...
Tags: Brazil Fast Food, Agriculture, Food
AVX Corporation (NYSE: AVX) today reported preliminary unaudited results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2014. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, John Gilbertson, stated, “We saw improved first quarter operating results ...
Tags: AVX, Electrical, Electronics