Global meat packing company Hilton Food Group has witnessed a decline in revenue in the first half of its financial year. For the 28 weeks to 13 July 2014, revenue was £592.3m, a 0.3%, decline from £593.8m in the first half of ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Meat
Sports Direct International plc , the UK's leading sports retailer, reported Group sales for the 13 weeks ended July 27 were up 12.2 percent to ?11.2 million ($1.21 bn) compared with ?34.0 millon a year earlier. Gross profit increased 11.8 ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Quiksilver, Inc. reported revenues fell 19.0 percent in its third quarter ended July 31, to $395.7 million. On a currency-neutral basis, sales were down 17 percent for the Quiksilver brand, 9 percent at Roxy, and 34 percent at DC Shoes. The ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
For fiscal first-quarter 2015 (ended 27 July 2014), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported its eighth consecutive quarter of sequential revenue growth, to a record $327.6m, ...
An agreement has been reached to create the world’s third largest quick service restaurant company, merging North American-based beverages and baked goods restaurant Tim Hortons Inc. (Tim Hortons) with global burger restaurant Burger ...
Tags: Burger King, Tim Hortons, fast food
Australia’s largest multi-brand retail food franchisor and leading wholesale coffee roaster, Retail Food Group Limited (RFG) has announced a record Net Profit After Tax (NPAT) of $36.9 million for the 2014 financial year, an increase ...
Tags: Retail Food Group, coffee roaster
Future Group, one of the top retail groups in India, has planned to invest in omni-channel retailing, by implementing the omni-commerce suite by hybris, a company owned by SAP. Omni-channel retailing, the next step in multi-channel ...
Tags: Future Group, Omni-Channel, Hybris
Global manufacturer and exporter of home textiles - Himatsingka Group plans to double revenue from its brands in the home textiles space. In the just completed fiscal year 2013-14, home textile brands in the group’s portfolio ...
Tags: home textiles, Himatsingka Group
The government of India is planning to introduce comprehensive change in the laws and rules governing the weight of food packets owing to increasing sale of packaged items. A fine between Rs 5,000 to Rs 20,000 for first offence will be ...
Tags: Packaged Food Items, Packaging
Campbell Soup Company today reported its fourth-quarter and full-year results for fiscal 2014. The company reported earnings from continuing operations for the quarter ended Aug. 3, 2014, of $137 million, or $0.43 per share, compared with ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Although revenue rose 12% year-on-year, net income at multi-brand retailer of women's, men's and children's apparel J.Crew Group, Inc. plunged 38.28% in the second fiscal quarter of 2014. Net income dived 38.28% to $17.5 million in the ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories, Children's apparel
Recent soft economic data including falling property prices have many investors worried about a growth slowdown in China, but Platinum Asset Management sees plenty of investment opportunities. The funds manager said in a note to investors ...
Tags: China Economy
Brazil's motor vehicle output in August this year increased by 5.3 percent from the previous month, but fell by 22.4 percent year on year to 265,910 units (excluding agricultural vehicles), according to the Brazilian Motor Vehicle ...
Tags: Transportation, car, auto
Driven by mattress fabric sales, revenue at NYSE-listed Culp, Inc., one of the world's largest marketers of mattress fabrics for bedding and upholstery fabrics rose 8.4 percent in the first fiscal quarter ending August 3, 2014. Net sales ...
Tags: Textile, Mattress Fabrics, Fabrics
LED maker Changelight Co Ltd of Xiamen, China plans to issue 6.07 million stocks to raise a total of RMB800m ($130.39m) in financing in order to expand its production of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LED epitaxial wafers, according to ...