Sales of BASF Group grew by 3% compared with the previous third quarter, reaching €18.3 billion. A sharp rise in volumes in the Natural Gas Trading business sector was mainly responsible for this growth. Income from operations (EBIT) ...
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Driven by strong growth in its outdoor & action sports portfolio and its direct-to-consumer business, revenues at apparel marketer – VF Corp rose 7 percent from a year earlier quarter to $3.5 billion in the third fiscal quarter ending ...
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The business-to-customer (B2C) e-commerce sales in Russia are expected to reach €30 billion by 2018, according to a report by Hamburg-based business intelligence organization yStats.com. In comparison to other nations, Russia is ...
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The latest USDA October report forecasts the US cotton crop for 2014 at nearly 16.3 million bales, down slightly from its last month’s forecast, but is 3.3 million bales or 26 percent above the 2013 production. According to the ...
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The market for GaN packaged LEDs in automotive applications is forecast to reach the US$1 billion mark in 2014 for the first time, according to IHS. Industry revenues are projected to grow 11% from US$943 million in 2013 to US$1.05 ...
Global demand growth for fluorochemicals is forecast to accelerate, rising 3.8 percent per year to 3.8 million metric tons in 2018. Above average growth in higher value products will help drive increases in value demand more than seven ...
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Did Microchip Technology get ahead of itself last week by suggesting that its downward revenue forecast was a negative bellwether for the whole semiconductor market? Or is there a macro-economic weakness, foreshadowed by Microchip, that ...
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Rohm upgraded its earnings forecast for the April-September half, raising guidance for net profit to 19 billion yen ($178 million), up 55% on the year and some 9 billion yen higher than previously predicted. Sales of the Japanese ...
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According to IHS, approximately 880,000 connected LED smart bulbs were shipped globally in 2013. With new lighting products entering the market seemingly every week, sales are forecast to ramp up very quickly in the next few years, with ...
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Transparency Market Research has published a new report titled "High-performance Ceramic Coatings Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2014 - 2020." According to the report, the global ...
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USDA in its latest report warns that countries with policies that support prices above the world levels may in turn reduce their export competitiveness for both cotton and textiles, especially yarn and fabric. China’s new cotton ...
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The Southern Europe region is expected to garner €47.8 billion in ecommerce sales by the end of the current year, says a report from Ecommerce Europe. It says online sales in the region have clocked an annual growth rate of 22% since ...
U.S. weekly retail sales rose 3.9% for the period ended Oct. 4.The increase was attributed to favorable weather that generated seasonal apparel demand, according to the Intl. Council of Shopping Centers/Goldman Sachs Weekly Chain Store ...
Tags: apparel demand, Sporting Goods
Retail imports into the U.S. are forecast to total 1.53 million containers in October, up 6.4% and topping the 1.52 million monthly record set in August when monthly imports rose 2.1%. Sep. imports increased an estimated 2.8% to 1.48 ...
Tags: Retail Imports, Sporting Goods
There are some things that one does not want to associate with. For example, you would never use a photo of a lemon with a product you want to launch, unless, of course, you are selling lemons. Similarly, I recently noticed an article ...
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