(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Shoppers bought more of Colgate-Palmolive Co.’s toothpaste, soaps and body washes, helping the consumer product maker boost its fourth-quarter profit by 27 percent, the company said Thursday.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Motorola Inc. showed progress in its turnaround efforts Thursday but a disappointing profit forecast sent its shares sliding. Motorola stock fell 88 cents, or 12 percent, to US$6.52 in midday trading.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Eastman Kodak Co., the remade picture-taking pioneer, broke a series of four straight quarterly losses with a US$443 million profit in the last three months of 2009 that sent its share price rocketing higher Thursday.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – 3M says 2009 closed on a strong note and it’s raising its profit expectations for the new year. Fourth-quarter profit rose 74 percent.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Defying economic conditions that sent its U.S. rivals into bankruptcy court, Ford Motor Co. clawed its way to a US$2.7 billion profit in 2009 and expects to stay in the black in 2010. It was the automaker’s first annual profit in f…
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Chevron Corp posted a drop in quarterly profit on Friday, and its new boss said the second-largest U.S. oil company had plenty of work to do on its own project line-up without making any big acquisitions.
Sales of Barbie and her pink-and-white empire rose for the first time in almost two years during the holidays, a sign that the once-stalled brand may be recovering.
BOSTON (Reuters) – Diversified U.S. manufacturer Honeywell International Inc set a first-quarter profit target that fell short of analysts’ forecasts and its shares fell 4 percent.
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Honeywell Intl (HON)Honeywell International (HON) on Friday released fourth-quarter earnings of 91 cents per share, or $698 million, compared to 97 cents per share a year ago. Quarterly sales dropped to $8.1 billion fr…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Newell Rubbermaid Inc posted a fourth-quarter profit on cost-cutting and lower raw materials prices, but the maker of Rubbermaid containers and Sharpie pens said the devaluation of Venezuela’s currency would hurt 2010 earnings.