Flint Group has increased the prices of its packaging inks products due to incremental cost escalation forces. Further to announcements made in March 2017, it has become clear that the raw material markets for many components within Flint ...
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Packaging Corporation of America (PKG) has reported sales of $1.6bn for the second quarter of this year, compared to $1.4bn for the same period last year. The company reported a net income of $143m for the period, compared to $115.9m in ...
Tags: Packaging, containerboard
Packaging Corporation of America has reported first quarter 2017 net income of $117m or $1.24 per share and $1.27 per share excluding special items. First quarter net sales were $1.5 billion in 2017 and $1.4 billion in 2016. Reported ...
Tags: Packaging, special items
Inflation across the 19-country euro area hit a four-year high of 2.0 percent in February thanks to soaring prices of energy, said Eurostat, the statistical agency of the European Union (EU) on Thursday. The latest inflation figure is ...
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A slowdown in China is the greatest threat to the global economy, Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff told BBC in a curious interview in late September. "The [Chinese] economy is slowing down much more than the official figures show." As the ...
Tags: Chinese economy, global economy
China's consumer prices increased 2.3 percent in February from one year earlier, up from January's 1.8 percent, official data showed Thursday. The inflation rate, the highest since July 2014, beat expectations as economists from the ...
Tags: Consumer Prices, inflation rate
GfK’s UK Consumer Confidence Index decreased three points to 4 in July. Joe Staton, head of market dynamics at GfK, says: “Concerns about the general economic situation in the UK for the next 12 months appear to be weighing ...
Tags: Consumer Confidence, Furniture
China's producer prices continue to fall in June, a sign of prolonged weakness of demand, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Thursday. The producer price index, a measure of costs for goods at the factory gate, fell 4.8 ...
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Russia has approved six Iranian companies to supply dairy and poultry products, a move that could allow Russia to free up from high food price inflation. The move comes after the Russian government recently said that the country will ...
Tags: Dairy Products, Poultry Products
Owing to its large population and rising disposable incomes, India continues to be an attractive long-term retail destination, says the Economic Survey 2014-15. Citing AT Kearney’s Global Retail Development Index (GRDI), the ...
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Bord Bia today launched its Export Performance and Prospects Report which reflects a 4% increase in exports for 2014 to reach a record high of almost €10.5bn. Aidan Cotter, Chief Executive, Bord Bia outlined the background to the ...
Tags: milk, drink industry, Agriculture
Overall shop prices reported deflation for the 20th consecutive month, decelerating to 1.7% in December, after reporting deflation of 1.9% in November, according to the latest BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index. On a 12-month average basis, the ...
Tags: input costs, Shop Price Index, Furniture
China's annual economic growth likely slowed to 7.2 percent in the fourth quarter, the weakest since the depths of the global crisis, a Reuters poll showed, which would keep pressure on policymakers to head off a sharper slowdown this year. ...
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The U.S. consumer price index (CPI) for jewelry declined 5 percent year on year to 166 points in November and the reading slipped about 5 points from October's index. Jewelry price inflation often reflects heavy promotional activity at the ...
Tags: Jewelry, Jewelry price
The analyst presentation that De Beers published this week on behalf of Anglo American was as revealing as the company’s much publicized Diamond Insight Report. Whether this was a once-off publication or not, the presentation was ...