Officeworks has reported a 0.7 per cent increase in sales to $1.5 billion in the full year to June 30. Wesfarmers’ home improvement and office supplies group managing director John Gillam said the office supplies division ...
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3M's consumer and office products division has reported second quarter sales of US1.1 billion, an increase of 2.3 per cent year-on-year. The maker of Scotch and Post-it brand products said like-for-like sales increased by 3.2 per cent. ...
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Outsourcing giant Capgemini announced flat profits of €237m (£153m) for the first half of 2012, with like-for-like sales up 2.3% to €5.15bn compared with the same period in 2011. In its report, the company said that ...
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In 2011, the production of sewing machine in China increased by 6.9% year-on-year to reach 17.06 million sets, according to China Sewing Machine Association. The production of industrial sewing machine rose 10.7% to reach 9.68 million sets, ...
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ST-Ericsson had Q2 net sales up 19%on Q1 at$344m for a loss of$235m which was$62m less than the loss in Q1.It expects Q3 sales to be about the same. The increased Q2 sales'reflected a significant ramp of volumes of NovaThor platforms ...
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China’s plastic pipe industry expects, for the most part, to shrug off the effects of the cooling in the country’s real estate sector and grow from just under 10 million metric tons production last year to 13.2 million metric ...
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CEMENT sales volumes rose by 6, 7% year on year (y/y) to 2, 637-million tons in the first quarter of 2012, data released by the Cement and Concrete Institute (C&CI) on Monday showed. This compared with a 3, 3% rise in 2011 and a 7, 8% fall ...
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In 2011, the total output of China's fastener up 9.7% to 6.8 million tons and the sales up 10% to 66 billion YUAN while compared with last year, which broke the history record. In the meantime, there were about 200 enterprises whose sales ...
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Stationery sales increased by 23 per cent in June, according to a sales update from well-known newsgency owner and commentator Mark Fletcher. "June got off to a good start and looks set to continue the trend of a good quarter so far," ...
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In their annual results for 2011, coatings producers in Europe have been predicting that 2012 will be much the same overall as last year in terms of growth in sales and profits. There would, nonetheless, be one major difference between the ...
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Optics bellwether compensates for semiconductor market weakness with rapid growth in Asia. The Carl Zeiss Group is on course for another strong financial year,despite the negative impact of the current slump in the semiconductor ...
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European plastics processor Promens recovered strongly last year, delivering significantly improved operating earnings to match those achieved before the 2009 global financial crisis. The Icelandic packaging to rotational moulding group ...
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The 3rd East China Glass Market Seminar of 2012 was held on April 12th. The seminar was organized by Shandong Jinjing Glass, Vice president and general secretary of China Architectural and Industrial Glass Association, Zhang Baiheng and ...
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A ramp-up in orders for LED driver ICs used in signage boards and lighting products will help Macroblock's monthly revenues rebound to more than NT$170 million (US$5.8 million) in March, a 10-15% sequential increase, according to industry ...
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Philips has reported fourth-quarter 2011 sales of EUR6.7 billion (US$8.8 billion) with lighting sales up by 7% on year. Fourth-quarter 2011 net losses resulted in EUR160 million due to low earnings and a loss from discontinued operations, ...
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