UniFirst Corporation announced results for its fourth fiscal quarter ended August 31, 2013. Revenues were $352.9 million, up 13.0% from $312.4 million in the year ago period. Net income was $30.6 million ($1.52 per diluted share), compared ...
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Swiss insurance and pension firm the Baloise Group has embarked on an agreement to divest its businesses in Croatia and Serbia to the Austrian UNIQA Group, in a EUR75m worth transaction. In Croatia, 'Basler osiguranje Zagreb' offers an ...
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Vitrum is always held in fall and hence near the end of the fiscal year. This makes it quite useful for assessing the progress made during the year and formulating an accurate forecast for the following year. And hence, as Vitrum opens ...
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The Buckle, Inc. announced that comparable store net sales, for stores open at least one year, for the 5-week period ended October 5, 2013 decreased 4.5 percent from comparable store net sales for the 5-week period ended October 6, 2012. ...
Steel Dynamics, Inc. announced Wednesday third quarter net income of $57 million, or $0.25 per diluted share, on net sales of $1.9 billion, compared to Q3 2012 net income of$13 million, or $0.06 per diluted share, on net sales of $1.7 ...
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PepsiCo, Inc. today reported core earnings per share of $1.24 for the third quarter and organic revenue growth of 3.3 percent for the quarter. Organic revenue grew 3.9 percent year to date and core constant currency EPS increased 12 percent ...
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French drinks major Rémy Cointreau has posted a 6.3% decline in its H1 2013 total sales to €558m, compared to €596m in the corresponding period last year. The company attributed the drop in sales to challenging economic ...
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ICE cotton settled slightly lower this week, closing at 83.11 basis Z3. Growing cert stocks and lower YoY Chinese cotton imports in September prompted bearish headlines that, along with sagging technicals and ideas that the US crop may be ...
VIP Tires & Service (VIP) recently gathered managers from its 56 locations for an annual conference to discuss business issues, receive training from more than a dozen key suppliers and honor managers who achieved "TOP 10" status for sales ...
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Faced with continued economic uncertainty and used to doing more with less, consumers will take a conservative approach to spending this holiday season. According to NRF’s holiday consumer spending survey conducted by Prosper Insights ...
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More than 200 staff at Osram's Siteco Beleuchtungstechnik factory in Traunreut, Germany are to lose their jobs, with those working in administration, logistics and production, most affected. Siteco manufactures indoor and outdoor lighting ...
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SolarCity deployed a record 78 MW during the third quarter of 2013, and expects to deploy more in the fourth quarter SolarCity Corp. (San Mateo, California, U.S.) reports that its deployments of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems increased ...
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Advance Auto Parts Inc. will release its third-quarter earnings on Oct. 31, 2013. In connection with the Oct. 16, 2013 announcement that it is acquiring Genuine Parts International Inc. for $2.04 billion, however, the company is releasing ...
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According to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), Indian motor vehicle production in September this year increased 8.6 percent as compared to September 2012 with 1,816,316 vehicles produced. In the first half of the ...
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. presented its capital expenditure plans for the next fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 2015 at its 20th annual conference for the investment community. Total capital spending for fiscal year 2015 is projected to range ...
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