The nation's largest sporting goods retailer reported net sales for the first quarter of 2014 ended May 3, 2014 increased 7.9 percent to $1.4 billion. Consolidated same store sales increased 1.5 percent, compared to the company's guidance ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Golf, Hunting
Flowers Foods, the nation's second-largest producer and marketer of fresh packaged bakery foods, reported results for its 16-week first quarter ended April 19, 2014. First quarter sales increased 2.6% compared to the first quarter last ...
A study conducted by The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council, (Texprocil) has revealed that India's cotton yarns exports are meeting their targets barring the seasonal fluctuations generally witnessed every April and inspite of high ...
Tags: Cotton Yarn, Cotton Yarn Exports
Beijing bureaucrats are all exhausted just by chasing a sputtering economy and trying to keep it moving. Some fine-tuning here, a bit of state spending there – all with the aim of meeting a GDP growth target. But if they want to stop ...
Tags: Economy Reform, China Economy
For fiscal second-quarter 2014 (to end-March), Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets, has reported revenue of $42.2m, down 4.5% on ...
Tags: Solar, Electrical, Electronics, Energy
Implementation of international labour standards in Pakistan, especially in the textile industry, was discussed in detail when US Deputy Counselor for Economic Affairs Susan McFee called on Pakistan's Minister for Textile Industry Abbas ...
Tags: Textile
According to the 2013 fiscal year, the United States consumer products safety commission total monitoring more than 14000 batches of imported consumer goods, seized 12.5 million pieces of consumer goods without the requirements of the ...
Tags: Lead-Based Goods, Imports Goods, Service, Customs
If TPG Capital LP decides to take American Tire Distributors Holdings Inc. public, it might recoup its initial investment and more. Recent acquisitions, however, will make an initial public offering (IPO) less profitable. The private ...
Tags: Tire, Tyre, Auto Parts
Japan's leading electronics makers are falling into two groups. Some companies, including Hitachi and Panasonic, have recovered from the industry slump triggered by the global recession that started in 2008 and exacerbated by the 2011 ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Sony
SunOpta, a leading global company focused on natural, organic and specialty foods, announced financial results for the first quarter ended April 5, 2014. All amounts are expressed in US dollars and results are reported in accordance with ...
Tags: specialty foods
Exports of coir and coir products from India touched an all-time high totaling Rs. 14.76 billion, registering a surge of 32 percent year-on-year, during the last fiscal year of 2013-14, owing to robust consumption from China, as per the ...
Tags: Coir, Coir products
Japan Petroleum Exploration plans to start drilling Japan's first horizontal shale exploration well at its onshore Fukumezawa oil field in Akita prefecture in the northwest for about one month from May 22, a company official said Tuesday. ...
The UK could see its first increase in offshore oil output in over a decade this year and the start of a slight recovery, BP regional vice president for Europe, Peter Mather, said Tuesday. His comments were balanced by a longer-term ...
Tags: Oil Output, offshore oil output
Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. announced results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2013. Fourth Quarter 2013 Highlights -Total revenues increased 11% to $1.20 billion primarily reflecting an increase in oilfield, ...
Tags: oilfield, specialty epoxy
The exports of readymade garments from Bangladesh increased by 15.38 percent to US$ 19.97 billion during the first ten months of the ongoing fiscal year 2013-14, as against exports of $17.307 billion made during the corresponding period of ...