DETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp may cut its 2008 global vehicle sales target by as much as 350,000 units to about 9.5 million because of declining sales in the United States, Japan and Europe, according to news reports. The Nikkei reported...
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By Poornima Gupta DETROIT (Reuters UK) - General Motors GM trailed Japanese rival Toyota in global vehicle sales decisively through the second quarter and first half of the year, hurt by a large decline in North America. The Detroit-based automaker said on Wednesday that vehicle...
By Poornima Gupta DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp GM trailed Japanese rival Toyota Motor Corp in global vehicle sales decisively through the second quarter and first half of the year, hurt by a large decline in North America. The Detroit-based automaker...
By Ransdell Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc PFE on Wednesday said quarterly earnings more than doubled on higher sales of its prescription drugs and lower expenses, but its Chantix quit-smoking drug lost more than a third of its U.S. sales amid...
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Baby goods retailer Mothercare MTC posted a 21 percent rise in first-quarter sales, boosted by an acquisition and strong sales in its international and Direct in Home online and catalogue businesses. The firm, with over 900 shops in the UK and abroad,...
By Gina Keating RIVERSIDE, California (Reuters) - Mattel Inc MAT won a nearly complete victory on Thursday in its federal copyright infringement case against rival MGA Entertainment Inc over which toymaker owns the original drawings for the $1 billion-plus Bratz fashion...
By Lewis Krauskopf and Ransdell Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merck & Co Inc MRK cut its sales outlook on two key medicines on Monday and indicated its financial forecasts were in doubt after a mostly negative study of cholesterol treatment Vytorin, sending...
By Aarthi Sivaraman NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mattel Inc MAT, fresh off a big court victory over Bratz dolls, posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Friday on higher sales of products tied to movies like "Speed Racer" and "Kung Fu Panda," and its...
By Nicole Maestri NEW YORK (Reuters) - Costco Wholesale Corp COST warned on Wednesday that its quarterly profit would miss current Wall Street targets because of soaring energy costs and other inflationary pressures, sending shares of the No. 1 U.S. warehouse...
By Christina Fincher LONDON (Reuters UK) - Analysts had to rub their eyes last month when official figures showed retail sales volumes leapt in May at their fastest pace in more than two decades. At a time when household incomes are being squeezed by rising living...
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Outdoor retailer Blacks Leisure BSLA said like-for-like group sales fell 5.4 percent in the 19 weeks to July 12, but it was making good progress in reducing costs and improving margins. The company, which has 428 stores selling camping equipment and...
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Online retail sales in Britain leapt 38 percent in the first half of the year to account for 17 pence in every pound spent, and this figure could rise to as high as 50 pence in five years, a report said on...
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Weekly sales at John Lewis JLP department stores surged 5.9 percent compared with the same period last year, reversing four weeks of falls as cash-strapped shoppers flocked to its summer clearance sale. The employee-owned firm, viewed as a bellwether of retail ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Total sales at retailers rose a less-than-expected 0.1 percent in June, as auto sales had their biggest drop in more than two years, a Commerce Department showed on Tuesday. Auto and auto parts sales fell 3.3 percent in June, their...
By Ransdell Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson JNJ on Tuesday posted second-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations, as strong demand for its medical devices and consumer products overshadowed negligible growth of prescription drugs. The diversified health-care company,...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp will cut its global sales target for calendar 2008 to 9.5 million vehicles from the 9.85 million it announced in December, Japanese national broadcaster NHK said on Wednesday. The world's biggest automaker had said it would...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wyeth WYE on Wednesday said second-quarter earnings fell 7 percent, hurt by generic forms of its Protonix ulcer drug, although results beat estimates as they were helped by its vaccine for childhood infections and a drug for...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Construction and mining equipment company Caterpillar Inc CAT said on Tuesday quarterly earnings rose a greater-than-expected 34 percent as strong growth in emerging economies offset weakness in North America, Western Europe and Japan. The company also raised its...
By Sam Cage ZURICH (Reuters) - Second-quarter net profit at Novartis AG NOVN rose 17 percent to $2.27 billion, helped by the weak U.S. dollar and cost cutting efforts, beating forecasts and boosting its shares. The Swiss drugmaker confirmed its full-year forecast on...
