June revenues of Taiwanese-listed LED makers totaled NT$8.8bn (up 1.12% month-on-month, but down 5.6% year-on-year), according to LEDinside. Benefiting from rising demand for consumer electronic appliances and the traditional lighting peak ...
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Norwegian food manufacturer Rieber&Søn today(12 July)reported lower half-year sales and profits,blaming low consumer confidence in Europe. Rieber&Son,which had seen sales increase in the first quarter of 2012,booked lower ...
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The high growth rate of 2010 was sustained in the first half of 2011, but demand started to tail off in the second quarter The power semiconductor discrete and module market reported a growth by a more modest 9% to just under $18bn in ...
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Power semi market grows 9%to$18bn in 2011 despite challenges Following a spectacular recovery in 2010,the power semiconductor discrete and module market grew by a more modest 9%in 2011 to just under$18bn,according to the 15th edition of ...
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Ecolab and China's State Food and Drug Administration Institute for Executive Development(SFDAIED)have entered into a partnership to conduct food safety training,in line with the recent introduction of China's five-year food safety plan. ...
India is set to implement regulations for street food,as a part of its effort to ensure food safety and promote consumer confidence. The Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS),the national standards body of India,has finalized basic requirements ...
In their annual results for 2011, coatings producers in Europe have been predicting that 2012 will be much the same overall as last year in terms of growth in sales and profits. There would, nonetheless, be one major difference between the ...
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A raft of first-quarter results stories this week from the likes of Danone and Nestle, and full-year results from Tesco have kept analysts busy. In addition to Tesco's sales figures, the group's CEO Philip Clarke revealed further details of ...
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The importance of evolving design trends cannot be overstated, especially because they filter down to influence every segment of home interior goods. Of course that includes floor coverings, and the new product introductions exhibited at ...
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Manufacturing probably picked up in the U. S. In March, showing it is weathering a slowdown in global growth, economists said before a report today. The Institute for Supply Management’s factory index climbed to 53 from 52.4 in ...
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NEW YORK — U.S. furniture sales grew 8.3% last month from a year earlier and the industry appears to be on the rise, according to a story by Bloomberg. More home sales and increasing consumer confidence are behind a rebound in ...
German business confidence jumped more than economists forecast in January to a five-month high, signaling Europe’s largest economy may avoid a recession. The Ifo institute’s business climate index, based on a survey of 7, 000 ...
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U. K. Manufacturing production fell for a second month in November as the weakening economy curtailed demand for metals, wood and paper products. Factory output fell 0.2 percent from October, when it fell a revised 0.9 percent, the Office ...
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Indian lighting market has seen buoyancy in lighting products recently. The demand for energy efficiency has brought forward an immediate need for more energy efficient products and also has pushed market towards more efficient products ...
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Indian lighting market has seen buoyancy in lighting products recently. The demand for energy efficiency has brought forward an immediate need for more energy efficient products and also has pushed market towards more efficient products ...
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