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- Watts Water Technology, Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Kevin Maczka – BB&T Capital Markets. Kevin Maczka – BB&T Capital Markets I guess my first question is on pricing, you made some comments there that price erosion has not been an issue so far. It...
- Earnings calls 2009-10-28
- Structuring Your Business Plan
- This article talks about business plan as a production line. What goes in at the start are raw material and unfinished assemblies. In this case, the raw materials include: Talent and initiative from your employees, Capital, Market position, The company's creditworthiness, The firm's earning capacity, Assessment of changes in the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Art And Science Of Business Valuation
- From the executive summary: ‘The raw materials that make up a company include cost, labor, overhead, inventory, capital, equipment, and even human relationships. All of the aforesaid factors have a value associated with them. No business is so unique that it does not require any raw material. In fact, one...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Packaging Update: Second Quarter 2008
- Packaging manufacturers are finding themselves dealing with the greatest raw materials pricing of the decade. Pricing transparency and pass-through arrangements have alleviated some of the burden, but the uncertainty regarding rising raw materials has made transactions more difficult to close. Strategic and private equity buyers are carefully evaluating investment opportunities...
- White papers 2008-07-31
- WSP Holding Limited Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Our first question comes from Ian A. Zaffino - Oppenheimer & Co. Ian A. Zaffino - Oppenheimer & Co. With the decline in raw materials and oil prices, how long is that going to take to flow through to your margin line? Your...
- Earnings calls 2008-08-15
- Nalco Holding Company Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator instructions. We will take our first question today from PJ Juvekar with Citi. Please go ahead, sir. PJ Juvekar – Citigroup My first question is for Erik. Erik you know you mentioned that you want to hold on to pricing, despite this weakness...
- Earnings calls 2008-10-29
- Gibraltar Industries Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions The first question comes from the line of Michael Cox, from Piper Jaffray. You may proceed. Michael Cox - Piper Jaffray Good morning. Congratulations on another strong quarter, gentlemen. My first question is on the pricing environment. ...
- Earnings calls 2008-11-06
- Interface, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions You have a question from Keith Hughes – SunTrust. Keith Hughes – SunTrust A couple questions, first on the bond issue that’s due in about a year, what is the current amount outstanding on that, Patrick? Patrick C. Lynch $152.8 million. Keith Hughes...
- Earnings calls 2009-02-25
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- THE INVESTMENT COLUMN: On paper, DS Smith looks vulnerable to the
- DS Smith, the paper and packaging business, warns that rising fuel and raw material costs are eating into its results, forcing it to cut costs and raise prices to recover the damage. Except its customers won't accept all of the price rises, and it is finding it...
- Research articles 2005-04-21
- Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. F4Q07 (Qtr End 9/30/07) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. We'll take our first question today from P.J. Juvekar from Citi. P. J. Juvekar - Citigroup Good morning. Paul E. Huck - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Good morning P.J. Nelson Squires - Director, Investor Relations...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
- Rohm and Haas Company Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionI would be happy to do that. Operator Instructions And our first question will go to Kevin McCarthy at Banc of America. Please go ahead. Kevin McCarthy - Banc of America Yes, good morning, Raj. You alluded to raw material price pressure, cost pressure rather of $35 million...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
- Bayer. (Product Introductions and Capital Investment).(Brief Article)
- Bayer Corp. is now engaged in several major capital investments. In Caojing, China, near Shanghai, Bayer is constructing a new polyisocyanate facility that will supply 11,500 tons of polyurethane coatings raw material to the Asian market when it co Bayer Corp. is now engaged...
- Research articles 2002-10-28
- ARGENTINA: Construction plans for proposed $25,000,000 grain-exporting port, NOBLE GROUP LTD. [Hong Kong] Order #: 080304.
- PROJECT OVERVIEW: Hong Kong-based NOBLE GROUP LTD., Asia's largest diversified commodity trader, is currently gearing up to make its first major investment in Argentina. In so doing, the company is planning to build a grain-exporting port near Rosario. According to...
- Research articles 2004-08-01
- International Absorbents: Undervalued and Attractive as an Acquisition
- Terry Schumacher submits:International Absorbents IAX: $2.85 on NYSE Amex on May 6, 200952 week price range: $4.98 – 1.66Diluted shares: 6.5 millionMarket cap: $18.5 million Investment Perspective International Absorbents has established a market leading position in a minor segment of the pet products industry. Their main product is small animal...
- External links 2009-05-08
- Evergreen Expansion Project Nixed by Thailand's Board of Investment.
- By Nareerat Wiriyapong, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 26--The Board of Investment BoI has rejected a 7.7-billion-baht proposal by Hong Kong-based Evergreen Plus Co to use Thailand as its export base for pulp, citing concerns over adequate supplies...
- Research articles 2004-04-26
- The Investment column: Low & Bonar wraps up profits
- Low & Bonar, the packaging group, stands out in a sector strewn with high-profile casualties of the volatile raw material price cycle. While investors in Rexam, De La Rue and Arjo Wiggins nurse losses incurred from a series of profit warnings, shares in the Dundee-based packager have continued an...
- Research articles 1996-07-09
- Rightpak seeking equity partnership
- MANILA, PHILIPPINES -- Rightpak International Corp., a subsidiary of San Miguel Corp., is negotiating for a foreign partner to make an equity investment in the firm. Although no definite agreement has been reached, Rightpak confirmed that it has been holding discussions with a foreign investor to...
- Research articles 1998-09-21
- Rightpak seeking equity partnership.
- MANILA, PHILIPPINES -- Rightpak International Corp., a subsidiary of San Miguel Corp., is negotiating for a foreign partner to make an equity investment in the firm. Although no definite agreement has been reached, Rightpak confirmed that it has been holding discussions with a foreign...
- Research articles 1998-09-21
- Brazil: Aracruz is prohibited to plant its raw material.
- Brazil, Nov 9, 2001 Aracruz Celulose has been prohibited by a law passed in the legislature of the state of Espirito Santo from planting the eucalyptus trees it uses for pulp production. The company has had to suspend the licensing process for planting in...
- Research articles 2001-11-12
- THE INVESTMENT COLUMN: Supermarket squeeze sours outlook for Geest
- GEEST IS in a pickle. The bullyboys of food retailing are squeezing the profit margins of food manufacturers, even ones that produce tasty, fresh food like Geest. Its menu of bagged salads and chilled ready meals was once a recipe for success, appealing to time- pressed, cooking-shy mums and investors...
- Research articles 2004-09-17
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