Brown Forman, the maker of Jack Daniel's Tennesee Whiskey, has reported a decline in its second-quarter profit and sales. Net sales dropped 3% year-over-year to $830m. Reported operating income fell 4% in the quarter to $291m. Diluted ...
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Fitbit (NYSE:FIT) released records of shipping more than one million Fitbit Blaze devices in its first month of availability, exceeding internal Fitbit sales forecasts. During this time, Fitbit Blaze has become the number one bestselling ...
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“The machine vision industry in Germany will grow in 2014 by at least 10% minimum and overall industry turnover will exceed its sales forecast of about €1.8 billion by the end of this year,” stated Dr. Olaf Munkelt, ...
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Applications of CCMs in the mobile phone and automotive sectors are fueling camera module revenues. Driven by the mobile phone and automotive sectors, the sales value of the Compact Camera Module (CCM) industry will grow by a factor of by ...
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In its trading statement for the 26 weeks period to July 25, 2015, UK fashion retailer Next reported a 3.5 per cent year over year hike in full price sales. “Next full price sales for the first half of fiscal 2016 grew 3.5 per cent, ...
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Market research company Euromonitor International said the stand-up pouch is clearly one of the fastest growing plastic packing used in the food industry. As stand-up pouches continue to become part of many brands’ packaging ...
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Vidrala, through its subsidiary Inverbeira Sociedad de Promoción de Empresas, has completed acquisition of Encirc, an Irish manufacturer of glass containers for the food and beverage industries, for €408.6m. Encirc ...
Everything you need to know about the Sony Xperia Z4 With the Sony Xperia Z4 release date expected to be one of the early highlights of the 2015 tech calendar, we have already been afforded our first early look at the upcoming handset. ...
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U.S. retail sales rose 3.6% during the final week of September. Business was described as brisk at apparel stores, wholesale clubs, dollar and electronic stores and discounters for the week ended Sep. 27. The gains offset weakness at ...
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The National Retail Federation (NRF) has lowered its retail sales forecast for 2014 because of slow growth recorded during the first half of the year, but said sales are expected to grow significantly faster over the next five months. NRF ...
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Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today announced financial results for the three months to June 30, 2014. Operating profit rose to 122.6 billion yen for the first quarter of the 2014 fiscal year, representing a 5% margin on net revenues that ...
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The National Retail Federation lowered its retail sales forecast for 2014 because of slow growth recorded during the first half of the year, but said sales are expected to grow significantly faster over the next five months. NRF forecasted ...
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Mike Cowan's LRA forecasting model's prognosis for 2014 semiconductor sales forecast estimate came in at $333.111 billion, anticipating 9% growth for the year. April sales were $25.595 billion. May is expected to be $25.727 billion. YTD ...
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Germany-based steelmaker ThyssenKrupp has announced its financial results for the first half ended March 31 of the financial year 2013-14, stating that it has achieved all operating and strategic targets for the first quarter. In the ...
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A leading Brazilian ethanol trader is forecasting an 8% rise in the average domestic price of the biofuel during the 2014-15 marketing year (April-March) as burgeoning domestic consumption is likely to more than offset tumbling export ...
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