In its fiscal year ending July 5, 2014 Bebe stores, a retailer of women’s apparel was able to reduce its losses by $9.7 million or 14.1%, when compared with the previous fiscal year ending July 6, 2013. Net loss from continuing ...
Tags: Bebe, finished goods, women's apparel
A 27% plunge in American continent sales, led NYSE-listed marketer of outdoor sports apparel - Quiksilver, Inc., to report a steep 19% year-on-year drop in global revenues for the third fiscal quarter ending July 31, 2014. Net revenues in ...
Tags: Sports Apparel, outdoor apparel
Quiksilver, Inc. reported revenues fell 19.0 percent in its third quarter ended July 31, to $395.7 million. On a currency-neutral basis, sales were down 17 percent for the Quiksilver brand, 9 percent at Roxy, and 34 percent at DC Shoes. The ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
An agreement has been reached to create the world’s third largest quick service restaurant company, merging North American-based beverages and baked goods restaurant Tim Hortons Inc. (Tim Hortons) with global burger restaurant Burger ...
Tags: Burger King, Tim Hortons, fast food
Australia’s largest multi-brand retail food franchisor and leading wholesale coffee roaster, Retail Food Group Limited (RFG) has announced a record Net Profit After Tax (NPAT) of $36.9 million for the 2014 financial year, an increase ...
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With The Craft of Spacemaking, multinational company Haworth is reinforcing its transition from office furniture manufacturer to provider of solutions for the modern world of work. The company will be using ORGATEC to showcase The Craft ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
The global market for LED luminaires for outdoor and parking applications will grow from $921m in 2014 to $1.4bn in 2021, according to a report from Navigant Research. Outdoor lighting systems are in the early stages of a transition from ...
Last month the EU proposed a tough set of waste recycling targets that have been met with much resistance by the packaging industry. The new proposals revolve around the aim for 80% of packaging waste materials to be recycled by 2030. ...
The research group of professor Jairo Sinova of the Institute of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, in collaboration with researchers from the UK, Prague, and Japan, has realised for the first time a new, efficient spin-charge ...
Tags: Spin-Charge Converter, GaAs, Electronics
Canada-based food producers Dare Foods has been helped by packaging company Sonoco to unveil its flexible bags Boulangerie Grissol Artisanal Baguettes products to the US market. Sonoco provided its help to Dare Foods to help them ...
Tags: Sonoco, Dare Foods, Flexible Bags
Czech Republic-based Obaly Morava has installed the world’s first HP high-speed inkjet corrugated packaging solution for the digital pre-printing of high-quality corrugated liners. The press was installed in June, making Obaly the ...
Tags: Obaly Morava, Corrugated Packaging Solution, Packaging
Those making or intending to make electric cars or their components have big strategy decisions ahead. These decisions must be made in the context of all car-like vehicles, whether homologated as cars or as something else. As the new ...
Tags: Big Strategy, Electric Cars, Decoration
Australia is experiencing record rural exports, more opportunities from China’s urbanisation, and global supply chains are having an effect on Australia’s export profile, according to the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation ...
Tags: Australia, Rural Exports, Service
The Productivity Commission’s final report into Australia’s automotive manufacturing industry neglects the profound effect the implementation of the government’s budgetary measures will have on the automotive component ...
Tags: Automotive Industry, Budget Victim, Service
As part of its US expansion strategy, catalyst specialist Umicore has entered into a long-term agreement to recycle cobalt-containing hard metals scrap from Global Tungsten and Powders Corp (GTP) to produce cobalt fine powders. GTP is a ...
Tags: Umicore, GTP, Electrical