China's foreign trade still faces strong headwinds as uncertainties mount, a commerce official said Tuesday. The difficulties will not end in the near term, with uncertain and unstable factors increasing, Shen Danyang, spokesperson for ...
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Toy sales in the sector’s five largest European markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK) grew by 4% in 2014, according to market research company the NPD Group. Toy Industries of Europe’s (TIE) Director General, ...
Blue Nile is being challenged by rising diamond prices, forcing the online jeweler to seek out growth in other areas. As diamond prices rise, eroding Blue Nile’s competitive advantage that its lower online prices offer, consumers will ...
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Online sales of non-food products in the UK grew 10.6% in June versus a year earlier, according to the latest BRC-KPMG UK Online Retail Sales Monitor. Although this is the lowest online growth recorded since July 2013, online sales in ...
Tags: Online Sales, Furniture, Furnishing
British Retail Consortium releases online retail sales monitor figures for April 2014. BRC-KPMG Non-Food Retail Sales Year-on-Year Growth: Clothing In contrast with March, the fashion categories growth were negatively affected by ...
Tags: Online Garment, Online sales
Online sales of non-food products in the UK grew 11.2% in April versus a year earlier. In April 2013, they had increased by 6.3% over the previous year. In April, online sales represented 16.1% of total non-food sales of the BRC's ...
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Industrial pump company revenue growth is predicted to be 3.7 percent this year according to the latest forecasts in the continuously updated McIlvaine report. Growth in Asia will exceed that of other continents. The lowest growth will be ...
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The dust has settled. Following two years of very strong growth in lift truck sales, shipments leveled off in 2012. With growth at just a fraction of a percent, worldwide sales didn't match the 27% growth in 2011 or the 32% growth in 2010. ...
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According to new findings from Canadean, the Chinese fragrance sector will grow at a value CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 11.1% until 2017. The overall health and beauty industry in China will grow at a CAGR of 7.2% for the same ...
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that Australia’s population grew by 1.8 per cent during 2012, returning to the excessive growth seen three years ago. This is the level advocated by then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s ...
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Fab equipment spending for Front End facilities is expected to be flat in 2013, remaining around $31.7 billion, increasing to $39.3 billion in 2014 — a 24% increase. The SEMI World Fab Forecast also reveals that in 2013 increases for ...
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Front end fab equipment spending is expected to be flat this year at $31.7bn , says SEMI, with an increase of 24% next year. Fab equipment spending for 17nm and below is expected to kick off in 2013 and increase by a factor of 2.4 to ...
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Cof its fiscal year, benefiting from the knock-on effect of acquisitions and higher volumes. For the nine months to the end of December, Pinguin Lutosa reported net sales up by almost 32% on the same period of the previous year, to ...
Seoul National University and Ritsumeikan University in Korea have developed a new technique for growing higher-quality gallium nitride (GaN) layers at temperatures as low as 500°C [In-Su Shin et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol5, p125503, ...
Tags: Lights, Instruments, Meters
Mr Zhang Changfu secretary general of the China Iron and Steel Association at an annual meeting about China's steel market outlook Saturday said that China is expected to witness 723 million tonnes of crude steel output this year, only a 3% ...
Tags: Steel Output, CISA, Steel, Construction