Spain-based paper mill company Europac Group has increased its net profit by 81.8% to £58.2m for the first nine months of the year compared to the same period last year. The company made a turnover of €876.9m in the reported ...
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UPM Paper ENA has announced plans to permanently close paper machine 5 at UPM Blandin in Minnesota, US in a bid to reduce graphic paper capacity. The closure plan comes as the firm seeks to reduce its the annual coated paper production ...
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Russian food firm Cherkizovo Group said that its Vasilyevskaya poultry production facility has received permission to export poultry products to Iraq. The Vasilyevskaya poultry farm, which is Cherkizovo Group’s largest poultry ...
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Sappi has reported a net profit of $58m for this financial year’s third quarter, compared to $32m for the same period last year. For Q3, its earnings per share stood at $0.11, excluding special items. Sappi had also reduced its debt ...
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Kush Bottles has hired a new sales and support team, led by Carmen Lam, to handle the rapidly growing legal cannabis market in Nevada. According to ABC News, recreational marijuana sales have exceeded expectations, with long lines outside ...
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Brazil-based meat processing company JBS has agreed to sell its beef operations in three South American markets to companies controlled by Minerva for $300m. Under the deal, JBS’ beef businesses in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay ...
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LyondellBasell has announced that its Supervisory Board has authorized the company's Management Board to declare a dividend of $0.90 per share, representing a 5.9 percent increase over the company's first quarter 2017 dividend. The ...
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Libbey, one of the largest glass tableware manufacturers in the world, has reported results for the first quarter ended 31 March 2017 Net sales $173.0 million, down 5.4 percent versus prior year, or down 3.3 percent in constant currency ...
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Cree, Inc. on Tuesday reported financial results for its third quarter of fiscal 2017, ended March 26, 2017, which missed Wall Street expectations. Shares of Cree declined over 7% in after-hours trade. Revenue for the quarter was ...
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Drinks giant Heineken reported an organic rise in beer volumes of 0.5% in Europe and 5.4% in Asia Pacific in the first quarter of this year. The increase in sales was unexpected for this year’s first quarter and it was more than the ...
SAFI, organiser of the Maison&Objet trade fairs, announced the suspension of its Asian and American editions in order to concentrate all of its available means and resources on the Paris-based events, as well as on the promising launch of ...
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Retail giant Tesco has reported an increase in Christmas sales, with toys and clothing driving the company’s growth. The retailer revealed that sales from the six weeks ended January 7th 2017, were up in toys by 8.5 per cent and ...
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Vietnam’s state investment firm has received offers from two foreign for stake purchase in the country’s dairy firm Vinamilk. The two firms will buy a combined 78.38 million shares in the company, according to a statement from ...
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Own sourced copper production was down 3% to 1,502,200 tonnes in 2015, reflecting the suspension of processing operations at Katanga and a significant curtailment at Mopani. These volume reductions were partly offset by increases at ...
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AptarGroup has announced quarter results for this year. Third quarter results For the quarter ended September 30, 2016, reported sales increased 1% to $590 million from $586 million a year ago. Excluding the negative impact from changes ...
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