Hershey Co. sales top $6.5 billion in 2012 Penn Live | The Hershey Co. sold a heck of lot of candy last year, earning more than $6.5 billion in domestic and global sales. The Hershey Co. sales topped $6.5 billion in 2012. This year it expects to expand distribution of Brookside Chocolates, a Canadian company it acquired last year. | The Derry Twp.-bas...
HK retail sales value up 9.8% in 2012 Xinhua | HONG KONG, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The total retail sales of Hong Kong in 2012 increased 9.8 percent in value and 7.2 percent in volume year on year, Hong Kong's Census and Statistics Department said Thursday. | The total retail sales value in December, provisionally estimated at 46.9 billion HK dolla...
Tablet sales soar; Apple’s market share sinks South China Morning Post | Worldwide tablet sales jumped in the fourth quarter beyond even some of the most optimistic forecasts to 52.5 million, with Android-powered devices pacing growth, a survey showed Thursday. | The preliminary survey by business research firm IDC show...
Apple loses bid to ban US sales of aging Samsung smartphone The Register | A US appeals court has denied Apple's request for a rehearing of an injunction, but , that would have stopped Samsung from selling its year-old Galaxy Nexus smartphone in the US. | The denial, Fox Business, was issued in a short statement by the US...
Global tablet sales surge, but Microsoft left behind Canberra Times | Apple ... remains the biggest seller of tablets, but Android sales surged. Photo: Getty Images/AFP | Worldwide tablet sales jumped in the fourth quarter beyond some of the most optimistic forecasts to 52.5 million, with Android-powered devices paci...
Global tablet sales surge, but Microsoft left behind Sydney Morning Herald | Worldwide tablet sales jumped in the fourth quarter beyond some of the most optimistic forecasts to 52.5 million, with Android-powered devices pacing growth, a survey shows. | The preliminary survey by business research firm IDC showed the tablet m...
Thousands of hectares of land for sale on Eyre Peninsula Australian Broadcasting Corporation Up to 40,000 hectares of farming land on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula will be placed on the market by the receivers of the region's largest landholder. | Companies associated with entreprenur and investor Mike Wake were placed in the hands of rec...
Big city sales drive housing market higher Sydney Morning Herald | The Australian housing market has posted a solid performance for the opening of the year, with dwelling values rising over January in virtually all the capital cities. | Analysts RP Data-Rismark report the national dwelling value – which incl...
Axis Bank Seeks $1 Billion Via Share Sale Wall Street Journal By KENAN MACHADO | MUMBAI—India's Axis Bank Ltd. plans to raise around $1 billion this week to strengthen its balance sheet, according to two people involved in the deal. | The M...
Methamphetamine dealer jailed Stuff | A P addict caught during a large Wellington police operation last year selling the drugs to others has been jailed for four and a half years. | Matthew Tema, 36, had pleaded guilty to conspiring to deal methamphetamine, supplying and offering...
Higher sales boost Briscoe's forecast Stuff | Briscoe Group expects to report at least a nine per cent jump in annual net profit to more than $30 million, after sales rose more than three per cent to $452.7m. | The homeware and sporting goods retailer said fourth quarter sales reached $150.5m,...
Kathmandu lifts 1H profit by as much as 75% on Aust sales Scoop Friday, 1 February 2013, 10:30 am | Article: BusinessDesk | Kathmandu lifts 1H profit by as much as 75% on Australian sales growth | Feb. 1 (BusinessDesk) - Kathmandu, the outdoor equipment retail chain, boosted first-half profit by as much as 75 per...
Yen sees no reprieve as BOJ meeting looms Reuters | SYDNEY (Reuters) - The yen sank to a fresh 2-1/2 year low against the greenback on Monday with investors giving the currency a wide berth in the lead up to a Bank of Japan meeting that could see the central bank commit to aggressive reflationary policy. | Facing relentless political pressure to pull the country out of deflation, the BOJ could con...
