La-Z-Boy recognized the owners and operators of its top performing La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries at an awards ceremony held during the recent High Point Market. "Once a year, we take the opportunity to reflect on the great achievements of ...
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Brazilian meat producer JBS has agreed to acquire Unidade Industrial Ana Rech hog processing facility, 491,000 hogs and poultry farm assets from BRF Brasil Foods, in a deal worth BRL200m ($100m). Under the terms of the deal, JBS will pay ...
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In April this year, China's producer price index (PPI) decreased by 0.6 percent compared to March this year and indicated a decline of 2.6 percent year on year, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics. The 2.6 percent drop ...
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Reporting its first-quarter earnings Thursday, Dorel Industries singled out the delayed arrival of spring and its effect on bicycle sales as a key factor holding down sales and profit for the start of 2013. "As stated in our year-end ...
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The 8th China Charity Award results are announced recently. Baosteel wins "2012 China Charity Award ? most charitable enterprise". This is the fifth time that Baosteel is awarded "China Charity Award" and the second time that it is rated ...
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According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in March this year Turkey's longitudinally welded tube and profile exports totaled 60,165 mt, up for the consecutive second month on month-on-month basis, ...
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The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry rose 0.3 percent in March from February, rising for the fifth consecutive month, according to the US Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics' ...
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According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q2 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in the first quarter of the current year construction activity in the EU is estimated to ...
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BASF had sales of approximately €8.5 billion in 2012 from new products that have been on the market for less than five years. “Our research Verbund has increased its innovative strength to a new level of performance in ...
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Application drives customer satisfaction with paint brands, while availability and courtesy of staff drives customer satisfaction with paint retailers, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2013 U.S. Interior Paint Satisfaction Study. ...
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Contractors took out building permits worth $6.5 billion in March, up 8.6 percent from February and the third consecutive monthly advance, according to a report from Statistics Canada. The March increase came mostly from the non-residential ...
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Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) announces its fourth consecutive pan-African Cape Town to Cairo road show; visiting 18 cities across 17 countries between 14th May and 23rd September 2013. The road show is instrumental in ...
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Distributor The In Thing has moved into a new office which is double the size of its previous premises. It also increased its turnover by almost 50 per cent during its 2012/2013 financial year. The firm’s head of marketing, ...
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Australian businesses will keep cutting their spending this year, with expectations for capital investment, employment and new credit set to fall further. The deteriorating outlook for the September quarter suggests that despite pockets ...
It’s reported that the transaction prices of China Steel Corp. (CSC)’s electric furnace (EF) Al-killed wire rods have kept falling to NT$21,700/ton in the Taiwanese market recently after CSC announced to remain its list prices ...