In the January-September period this year, total real estate investments in China amounted to RMB 6.8751 trillion ($1.12 trillion), up 12.5 percent year on year, with this growth rate down 0.7 percentage points compared to the year-on-year ...
Tags: residential dwellings, Real Estate
Although ThyssenKrupp stated in August that it planned to invest up to BRL 450 million (US$197.4 million) in Brazil between 2013 and 2016, reports this week indicate the company has adjusted that figure to BRL 2 billion ($814.1 million). ...
Tags: ThyssenKrupp, Metallurgy
In the January-September period of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 35.7787 trillion ($5.83 trillion), up 16.1 percent year on year, as announced by China's National ...
Tags: mining sector, fixed asset
XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium (di)selenide thin-film (CIGS) photovoltaic (TFPV) cell technologies and ‘CIGSolar’ manufacturing processes, has begun to bundle a commercial ...
Tags: XsunX, CIGS Solar Systems
Aganga, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, said he was impressed with the level of investment the firm had made and asked for more investments into the economy. He described the paper packaging facility as unique and the first of ...
Tags: Packaging Firm, Packaging
The world’s biggest retailer - Walmart Stores expects an increase in global e-commerce sales of around 25 percent in fiscal year 2016, and anticipates growth over the three-year period from fiscal years 2016 through 2018 to average 30 ...
The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) said that in the highly labour-intensive textile sector, rigid labour laws have been a major hindrance to investments and scaling up of production facilities. Prem Malik, Chairman, CITI ...
Tags: Textile Industry, textile sector
The GfK Consumer Climate Europe study for the third quarter of 2014 paints a gloomy outlook for the European economy, noting in particular that while there is a backdrop of growth in the UK, the Scottish referendum harmed consumer ...
PPG Industries reported third quarter 2014 net sales from continuing operations of $3.94 billion, up $161 million, or 4 percent, versus the prior year. Third quarter 2014 reported net income from continuing operations was $377 million, or ...
Tags: PPG, Construction Coating
Michael Halebian & Co. is expanding into the Boston Metropolitan area from its Hartford, Conn. location. Michael Halebian, Jr., president of the company, pioneered the Southern New England territory 34 years ago, and maintains regular ...
Tags: Halebian, Area, Decoration
Dunelm experienced like-for-like sales growth of +8.9% for the 13 weeks to 27th September 2014, according to the retailer's latest financial report. This was compared to the -5.3% experienced in the same period in 2013. "Trading was ...
Tags: Dunelm, Like-for-Like Sales
The Coca Cola Company will earmark between $600m and $1bn for expansion of its operations in Indonesia. The company is likely to form a joint venture with its Australian subsidiary Coca Cola Amatil (CCA), to build new plants across ...
Tags: Coca Cola, Soft Drink Industry
China-based PV module makers and Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers, in an attempt to avoid US anti-subsidization and anti-dumping tariffs, are seeking production capacities in locations outside of China and Taiwan, ...
Hong Kong-based garment firm Prosperity Knitwear Myanmar Ltd. is investing US$ 5.5 million to set up a garment factory in the Thilawa industrial zone area of Myanmar, Eleven Media Group reported. Last month, the Myanmar Investment ...
Global solar photovoltaic (PV) installations added during the fourth quarter of 2014 are forecast to exceed 19.5GW, pushing global cumulative PV deployment toward the 200GW mark. The amount of solar PV deployed in the fourth quarter is ...
Tags: solar photovoltaic, PV industry