For its fiscal first-quarter 2013(ended 23 September 2012),Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has reported record revenue of$315.8m,up 3%on$306.8m last quarter and 17%on$269m a year ago(and in the middle of the$305-325m targeted range,with ...
Cal-Maine Foods has booked a 39% drop in second-quarter earnings, as revenue growth failed to offset higher costs. The company said earnings dipped to US$14.3m in the quarter to 1 December, down from $23.3m in the comparable period of ...
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China's competition officials are still weighing Dole Food Co's deal to sell its global packaged food and Asian fresh businesses to Japan's Itochu Corp, forcing the two firms to delay completion of the sale. Dole had hoped to sign-off ...
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US discount retailer Family Dollar Stores has recorded first-quarter earnings that came in at the lower end of its guidance due to gross margin pressure and expense headwinds. In the three months ended 24 November, earnings amounted to ...
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Calavo Growers, a US-based processed avocado products manufacturer and distributor, has reported that its net income for the fourth quarter ended 31 October 2012 increased by 69% to $6.1m, compared to $3.6m for the same period in 2011. ...
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IDG News Service-Facing a sluggish PC market and deferring revenue from sales of its upcoming Windows 8 OS,Microsoft reported$4.47 billion in net income for its first fiscal quarter of 2013,a 22%decline from the same period a year earlier. ...
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Family Dollar Stores, Inc. reported that for the first quarter of fiscal 2013 ended November 24, 2012, net sales increased to $2.42 billion and net income per diluted share for the quarter increased to $0.69. “The investments we ...
Cal-Maine Foods, a US-based egg producer, has reported that its net sales increased by 13.26% to $328.8m for the second quarter of 2013, compared to $290.3m for the same period in the previous year. For the period ended 1 December 2012, ...
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IDG News Service-Intel CEO Paul Otellini will retire as an officer and director of the company in May,ending a four-decade career with the company.Otellini is to retire during a stockholders meeting within six months,making sure the ...
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Tech stocks are ending the first half of the year on an upbeat note with news that enterprise spending on software lately has been relatively strong. On Friday shares of computer companies led a U.S. market rally in the wake of reports ...
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UniFirst Corporation announced results for its fiscal 2013 first quarter, which ended November 24, 2012. First quarter revenues were $332.6 million, up 6.2% from $313.0 million in the year ago period. Net income for the quarter was $30.8 ...
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Based in Cambridge, Mass., Cambridge was a leader in atomic layer deposition (ALD) solutions with hundreds of system installations in research and manufacturing settings worldwide. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. ...
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Cisco Systems posted a small sales gain of 4 percent and a larger boost in profit for its fiscal fourth quarter on Wednesday. The company's revenue hit$11.7 billion for the quarter ended July 12,up 4 percent from a year earlier.Its net ...
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Juniper Networks and Riverbed Technologies are partnering to utilise their network and application capabilities. The two firms announced the tie-up claiming the application and the network were converging. They said there was a need for ...
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Trina Solar, a China-based manufacturer of solar products, announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2012. According to Trina Solar, net revenues in the first quarter of 2012 were US$349.9 million, a decrease of 19.7% ...
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