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Brexit, Commodities Force Arla Foods to Launch Cost-Cutting Plan

Apr 24, 2018

European dairy giant Arla Foods has initiated an internal transformation program in an effort to realize more than €400m of savings by the end of 2020. The program, dubbed Calcium, seeks to strengthen the company's performance to the ...

Tags: Brexit, Arla Foods

Unilever Plans to Sell Certain Food Brands for £6bn

Mar 27, 2017

British-Dutch multinational company Unilever is reportedly planning to divest certain food brands from its consumer goods portfolio for £6bn. Flora margarine spread and Stork butter brands are among the brands that are likely to be ...

Tags: Unilever, food brands

Multi Packaging Solutions Announces Q1 Fiscal 2017 Results

Nov 11, 2016

Multi Packaging Solutions International announced results for its first quarter ended 30 September 2016. 1Q FY 2017 vs. 1Q FY 2016: GAAP sales of $407.8 million vs. $459.1 millionNegative foreign exchange impact of $17.4 millionGAAP ...

Tags: Multi Packaging, Packaging

Associated British Foods Looks to Sell Unprofitable Sugar Business in China

May 13, 2016

Associated British Foods (ABF) is reportedly contemplating the sale of its unprofitable sugar business in China to remain focused on its sugar operations in Europe and Africa. For this purpose, the food company has invited bids for five ...

Tags: Unprofitable Sugar, Sugar

Worldwide IT Spending Forecast to Decline 0.5% in 2016

Apr 11, 2016

Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total US$3.49 trillion in 2016, a decline of 0.5% over 2015 spending of US$3.5 trillion, according to Gartner. This is down from last quarter's forecast of 0.5% growth. The change in the forecast is ...

Tags: device market, printers

Crisis-Hit Toshiba to Announce Record Losses Amid Major Restructuring Push

Dec 22, 2015

Toshiba Corp. said on Saturday its group net loss for the business year ending in March will far outweigh that of the previous year's and may top its record of 398.8 billion yen (3.29 billion U.S. dollars) logged in the year through March ...

Tags: Toshiba, Record Losses

10 Major Trends in The Future LED Industry Market

Nov 24, 2015

LED manufacturers had an especially tough year in 2015. Despite rising LED lighting market demands, and large scale replacements of traditional luminaires, the oversupply situation in the market has caused average sales price (ASP) of LEDs ...

Tags: LED Industry, LED package

Abu Dhabi Seeks 25% Cost Savings on Major Oil Projects: Report

Nov 6, 2015

State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co, (Adnoc) is seeking to cut 25% off its operating and capital spending, a senior official at the company was quoted as saying Thursday. "...we are trying to bring down operating expenditures and also ...

Tags: Abu Dhabi, oil

Do Australia's Supply Chains Face a Looming Crisis?

Aug 27, 2015

48% of supply chain managers in Australia say they are inadequately trained, according to respondents of a global survey of professionals. Supply chain managers increasingly focus on protecting vulnerable people further down the chain ...

Tags: Australia's Supply Chains, Looming Crisis

Oclaro's CFP 100G Client-Side Transceiver Capacity Expansion Compensates for Drop in 40G Telecom Sales

Aug 10, 2015

For fiscal 2015 (ended 27 June), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $341.3m, down 12.7% on fiscal 2014's $390.9m. This is due to a 25% ...

Tags: laser product, telecom products

American Apparel Has Announced The Next Phase of Its Strategic Turnaround Plan

Jul 10, 2015

In order to shore up its topline and bottomline, clothing retailer American Apparel has announced the next phase of its strategic turnaround plan. “This plan includes a redesigned fall merchandise line, approximately $30 million in ...

Tags: American Apparel

China's Effort in Expanding Module Capacity Abroad

Jul 6, 2015

At the start of this year, the United States Department of Commerce conducted a preliminary review of the anti-dumping and countervailing (AD/CVD) measures against Chinese photovoltaic (PV) cell imports for 2012 and reduced the overall ...

Tags: PV Cell, Solar Cell

EU Coatings Companies Have Good Perspective

Apr 21, 2015

After a slowdown in demand in the second half of last year in many parts of Europe, coatings companies in the region have become less confident about the short-term future. However, despite economic forecasts of relatively slow growth in ...

Tags: EU Coatings Companies, Coatings demand

Treasury Wine Estates Puts up Victorian Wineries, Close Packaging and Warehousing Facility

Apr 2, 2015

Treasury Wine Estates has put up several of its wineries for sale and is planning to close packaging and warehousing facility near Mildura, Australia as part of a major cost-cutting initiative. Treasury Wine Estate's T'Gallant winery ...

Tags: Treasury Wine, warehousing facility, Food

Oclaro's Core Communications Revenue Increases by 4% Quarter-to-Quarter

Feb 6, 2015

For its fiscal second-quarter 2015 (ended 27 December 2014), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $86.8m, down 15.6% on $102.9m a year ago and ...

Tags: end-market, Telecoms

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