Gap Inc. reported net sales of $1.51 billion for the five-week period ended April 5, 2014. Gap Inc.’s comparable sales for March 2014 were down 6 percent versus a 1 percent decrease last year. “While March performance has ...
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The exports of cotton from Egypt declined by 42 percent in the first quarter of the agricultural season 2013-14, according to the data from the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). Egypt exported 79,600 ...
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In booth #512 at EDI CON 2014 Electronic Design Innovations Conference in Beijing China (8-10 April), Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on ...
Global consumption of packaged LED chips used in signage/professional displays will rise at an average annual rate of 11.9% from nearly $2bn in 2014 to $3.56bn in 2019, forecasts a new study from market research firm ElectroniCast ...
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Terry's Tire Town was founded in 1972. The business has 650 employees, 10 distribution centers and a commercial operation. Following the announcement in February 2014 that American Tire Distributors Holdings Inc. (ATD) would purchase ...
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Singapore's Nanyang Technological University has developed conventional aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) with record-breaking figures-of-merit (FOMs) for frequency and breakdown performance [Kumud ...
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has accepted a court enforceable undertaking from Australian supermarket group Coles following an investigation into a video and cartoon called 'Our Coles Brand Milk Story', which ...
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Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, Inc. announced that adjusted earnings per diluted share were $1.07 for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013, representing a 9% increase compared to adjusted earnings per diluted share of $.98 in the fourth quarter of ...
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Low-sulfur crude grades in the North Sea have dropped to more than four-month lows on differentials versus Dated Brent on pressure from competing grades in the Mediterranean. On Tuesday, Norwegian North Sea crude grade Ekofisk hit a ...
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No matter the category, technology has been playing a major role in the types of products manufacturers are able to produce, and the tile industry is no different. In fact, many would argue there's a technological revolution taking place in ...
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The biggest objection I hear from flooring dealers about becoming immersed in social media has to do with time. Their days are busy enough without having to add another layer of work that seems overwhelming when new social networks seem to ...
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Sun Yat-sen University in China has improved the wall-plug efficiency of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) grown on silicon by incorporating a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) [Yibin Yang et al, Appl. Phys. ...
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State-owned China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec Corp, posted modest gains in its 2013 upstream and downstream oil and gas production and has pledged to reduce its capital expenditure this year. In its annual financial results ...
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Justin King, Chief Executive, said: "We have seen a decline in sales in the quarter reflecting tough comparatives. This time last year our sales benefited significantly from the discovery of horsemeat in some branded and ...
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Since bamboo's initial introduction to the U.S. flooring market in the early 1990s, it has continued to evolve into different flooring formats, which has served to increase the product's use and demand, especially in today's eco-conscious ...
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