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Showing posts with label China’s economic growth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China’s economic growth. Show all posts

July 31, 2012

Luxury goods buck economic slowdown

Fuelled by surging demand in China, luxury goods makers are bucking the global economic slowdown and reaping huge profits on sales of high-end handbags, expensive jewellery and posh perfumes.

June 12, 2012

Tesco's quarterly sales hit by 'challenging' trading

Tesco's UK sales have fallen over the past three months, in what the retailer said was "a challenging quarter for the industry as a whole". Its like-for-like UK sales, excluding both petrol and VAT, declined by 1.5% in the 13 weeks to 26 May.

November 26, 2011

China Workers Strike at Companies That Make IBM Parts, Lingerie November 24, 2011, 10:38 PM EST

Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Thousands of workers in southern China went on strike in the last week to demand higher pay and better treatment, disrupting work at companies including one that supplies equipment to International Business Machines Corp.