The Market Authority board of directors awarded a $50,000 contract to Duke University Wednesday to study the economic impact of the High Point Market and measure it against other domestic and international furniture shows. The new study, ...
Japanese carmaker Mazda has reported 3.8% rise in sales for the fiscal year 2012 that ended in March 2013 to 879,129 units, compared to the previous year, contributed by strong sales of its passenger and commercial vehicles. The company ...
Microsoft's Business division, which manages the company's Office cash cow, recorded a 5% revenue bump in the first quarter over the same period in 2012, an increase driven by a surge in enterprises signing long-term licensing agreements. ...
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Ennis, Inc. reported financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended February 28, 2013. Highlights for the quarter include: Consolidated sales increased 1.7% - Print sales increased $7.4 million - Apparel sales declined $5.2 ...
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Even though PC shipments were down 14% last quarter, Microsoft's Windows division yesterday posted revenue about the same as the last year, making up for slumping sales to OEMs with impressive growth in long-term licensing agreements sold ...
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Microsoft increased revenue across all its divisions in its third fiscal quarter, achieving an almost 20 percent revenue increase year on year. For the quarter ended March 31, 2013, Microsoft generated revenue of US$20.5 billion, up 18 ...
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Microsoft's profits for the third quarter jumped 19 per cent as its core Windows division reported higher sales, despite reports of tanking sales for personal computers. Microsoft's Q3 earnings report follows figures released by IT ...
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TIME has named Tadashi Yanai, Chairman, President & CEO Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., to the 2013 TIME 100, the magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The full list and related tributes appear in the April 29 ...
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Restoration Hardware said revenues shot up 30.4% in the quarter ended Feb. 2, but the retailer recorded a net loss of $28.4 million due largely to expenses from its November public stock offering. Revenues for the 14-week quarter totaled ...
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Infrared lasers are increasingly being used in medicine and industry. In order to protect the eyes from injuries, special filter glass is needed. SCHOTT’s 1 mm thin band-pass filter VG20 shows strong absorption in the near infrared ...
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Japan, a net importer of low sulfur fuel oil, exported more fuel oil in the week ended April 13 than it has in the last 20 months due to dwindling demand for the product from the country's utility companies, data released Wednesday by the ...
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Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC) announced to leave its contract prices for H-beam unchanged for April. Previously, NSSMC planned to raise its H-beam contract prices by a total of ¥10,000/ton in the first half of fiscal year ...
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Sino Agro Food, an organic food company with subsidiaries operating in China, has reported that its net revenues increased by 167% to $138.6m for the fiscal year 2012, compared with $51m in the previous year. The company's net income ...
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North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory will meet here Saturday with industry leaders who petitioned his support for continued state funding of the High Point Market. The private meeting will take place from noon to 12:45 p.m. in the Green Wing ...
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According to the Shipbuilders Association of Japan (SAJ), its members' consumption of ship plates is predicted to be at 3.03 million tons in the fiscal year ended on March 31st, 2014, falling by 11% year on year. It's known that SAJ's ...
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