UK-based bakery products manufacturer Finsbury Food Group is planning to close its Grain D'Or bakery business, putting around 250 jobs at risk. The company said that Grain D'Or has been historically loss making even after implementing ...
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CTI Industries, a manufacturer and marketer of flexible packaging and storage products, laminated films and novelty balloons, has reported net sales of $12.81m for second quarter ended 30 June 2017, compared to $14.15m for the same period ...
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Canadian packaging company Intertape Polymer has reported a 4.3% increase in its revenue to $210.2m for the second quarter of 2017, compared to $201m for the same period last year. The company's gross profit fell from 25.7% to 22.5% from ...
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For second-quarter 2017, POET Technologies Inc of San Jose, CA, USA — which has developed the proprietary planar optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic fabrication of integrated III-V-based electronic and optical ...
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German printing press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer has reported a 2.7% decline in its revenue to €538.9m for the first half of this year, compared to €553.9m for the same period last year. The company's EBIT stood at €16.3m ...
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With counterfeit sales accounting for up to 5% of European trade, the brand protection specialist is set to deliver essential tips for toy firms. With counterfeit sales accounting for up to 5% of European trade, and toys the third most ...
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For second-quarter 2017, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $115.1m, up 22% on $94.4m last quarter and up 53% on $75.3m a year ago. However, this includes ...
The report presents a detailed breakdown of the $263B industry by property type, product category and geography. LIMA has released the full findings of its annual global survey of the licensing industry. The report was commissioned by ...
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Private equity firm GenNx360 Capital Partners has signed an agreement to sell its portfolio company Novel Ingredients to specialty ingredients provider Innophos Holdings. Novel Ingredients, which was acquired by GenNx360 in March 2014, is ...
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For fiscal fourth-quarter 2017 (ended 1 July), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $149.4m (split about 50:50 between client-side/datacoms ...
For fiscal first-quarter 2018 (ended 1 July 2017), Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has reported revenue of $639.9m, down slightly on ...
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Corrugated packaging company Smurfit Kappa has reported a drop in second-quarter profit but said its revenue increased, due to strong demand in majority of markets. The company's pretax profit during the three months ended 30 June 2017, ...
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Irish glass and metal packaging group Ardagh stated that its revenue has increased 58% to €2.02bn for the second quarter of this year, when compared to €1.3bn for the same period in 2016. Adjusted earnings before interest, ...
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For first-half 2017, Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has reported revenue of €12.5m, up 80% on €7m in first-half 2016, ...
For fiscal third-quarter 2017 (to end-June), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $900.8m, up 5.8% on $851.7m last quarter and up 20% on $751.7m a year ...
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