For 2013, Rexam posted a 1% rise in sales to £3.9bn. Underlying profit before tax was up 4% to £372m. The group also hit 15.5% return on capital employed (ROCE), up on the 14.5% in 2012. Rexam’s total dividend is up 14% to ...
The great achievements of double tenth in the past two years,let more and more traditional enterprises plan enter into the online sales.However, how to break the bottleneck of traditional sales.It needs certain considerations. ...
Tags: Stationery, Office Supplies, E-Commerce
China's recent move to digitally tag fuel cargoes to clamp down on the widespread practice of declaring crude purchases as fuel oil to evade taxes is already seen to be curbing demand for heavy Venezuelan Merey crude from teapot refiners in ...
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The Australia Pacific LNG project is currently around 60% complete and remains on track to deliver its first cargo in mid-2015, joint venture partner Origin Energy said Thursday. Origin is the upstream operator of the coalseam gas-based ...
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Pakistan-based producer Fauji Cement Co posted earnings of PKR1.25bn (US$11.92m) in the first half of FY14, up 36 per cent YoY compared to the PKR922m in the comparative period of the previous fiscal. The improved earnings came on the back ...
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This year marks the 10th Annual Luminaire Design Competition for students enrolled in Designing with Light (DES 136 B) at the University of California, Davis. The competition gives students the opportunity to work with state-of-the-art ...
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Iron ore supply may exceed demand growth rates in China later in 2014 as the nation has recorded slow steel production rates since the start of the year and is currently operating at an annualized rate of 730 million mt, BHP Billiton CEO ...
Gansu Province-based Chinese steelmaker Jiuquan Iron and Steel Group (JISCO) has announced that in 2013 its Gansu-based subsidiary Hongxing Steel recorded an estimated net loss of RMB 2.35 billion ($385.2 million), as compared with a net ...
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Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group has announced its financial results for the first half of the financial year 2013-14 ended on December 31. During the half year, Fortescue's net profit amounted to US$1.72 billion, compared ...
Finnish mining and metal manufacturing equipment provider Outotec has issued its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year 2013. Accordingly, in the fourth quarter the operating profit of Outotec decreased to €25.4 ...
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Austrian steelmaker voestalpine AG has announced its financial results for the first nine months ended December 31 of the fiscal year 2013-14. Accordingly, voestalpine's net profit in the first nine months decreased by 4.8 percent to ...
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Turkish integrated long steel producer Kardemir Karabuk Demir Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Kardemir) has announced its financial results for 2013, posting a net profit of TRY 100 million ($45.7 million), falling by 48.5 percent compared to ...
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On February 18, Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Daye Special Steel Co. announced its results for 2013, stating that its operating revenues for the year amounted to RMB 7.44 billion ($1.23 billion), decreasing by 8.43 percent, while ...
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Australian mining company BHP Billiton has announced its financial results for the half year ended December 31, 2013. According to its financial statement, BHP Billiton posted a net profit of US$8.1 billion for the first half of the ...
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Finland-based steelmaker Ruukki has issued its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2013, reporting an operating profit of €8 million in the fourth quarter, compared to an operating loss of €34 million in ...
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