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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Taiwan-based Teco Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd., a supplier of motors and household appliances, expects to continue gaining steam from its wind turbine business, as its new factory of such products in Hunan Province, central China, will ...
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Taiwan's leading machine-tool makers reported strong sales in Q3 this year mostly thanks to increasing demand from China, the United States and European Union. Goodway Machine Corp. had consolidated revenue of NT$1.9 billion (US$64.9 ...
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To keep up with brisk growth, Rechi Precision Co., Ltd., world's fourth-biggest supplier of compressors for air conditioners by shipment, has stepped up output expansion across Taiwan and China. Recently its board approved an ...
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Bloomer Plastics, which is owned by private equity firm Huron Capital Partners, has acquired Ohio-based high barrier coextruded blown films manufacturer, Optimum Plastics The company said that the acquisition was directly aligned with its ...
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Benefiting from Taiwan's thriving fastener industry, which could finish this year with export value exceeding US$4 billion, Chun Zu Machinery Industry Co., Ltd., a leading Taiwanese supplier, aims for annual revenue of NT$1 billion ...
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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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Element, the skateboard brand, announced several key appointments to their U.S. leadership team. "We are entering a new era at Element,” said Global GM Frank Voit. “In almost 25 years, the brand has become a crucial player in ...
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Australia Post has appointed Robert Black as executive general manager, Parcel Services, effective 12 January, 2015. Mr Black will be responsible for the Parcel Services division, which operates the StarTrack brand. The Parcel Services ...
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GCiS China Strategic Research estimates that the domestic market for anticorrosion coatings in China was worth more than RMB 36 billion in 2013, with sales of roughly 1.4 Mn Tons. The study finds that growth in 2013 was only 2.8 percent, ...
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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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Sustainability has been a concept which regional and national trade associations in Europe has been encouraging coatings producers and their suppliers to adopt to ensure that the coatings sector move in a more environmentally friendly ...
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Akzo Nobel N.V. has reported positive volume growth and, for the fifth consecutive quarter, an improvement in Return on sales (ROS) – from 8.0 percent to 9.1 percent. Excluding restructuring costs of €55 million, ROS was 10.6 ...
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Indian ethnic wear brand Biba has launched its e-commerce portal to leverage the fast growing e-commerce market space and do maximum business in the ongoing festival season. The managing director of Biba, Sidhharth Bindra, said the ...
Tags: ethnic wear, Apparel
VF Corp. said The Timberland, Vans, The North Face, Kipling and Wrangler brands drove a 7 percent increase in revenues and an 11 percent increase in earnings per share in the third quarter ended Sept. 27, 2014. All per share amounts are ...
Tags: VF Corp, Outdoor Brands