Solid CVS performance boosts results at Melville.

Chain Drug Review;  March 26, 1990 ;     198 words ......the year to $7.55 billion. Overall, net margins for the specialty retailer inched up...5.2%. By way of contrast, corporate net margins hit 9.4% during the fourth quarter...Thus, Melville was able to improve its net margins, which have been off for the nine months...

Forecast for 1996 finances: generally fair.(hospitals and health systems)

Modern Healthcare;  June 24, 1996 ;     700+ words ...With net margins increasing, stability is likely this...the year-ago quarter. The report uses net margins, which reflect net income as a percentage...from 4.17%. Eighteen hospitals saw net margins rise during the quarter, while 17 had...

Inland Powser hits record level of electricity sales

Journal of Business;  March 23, 2000 ;     488 words ......cooperative, posted a significant jump in net margins during 1999, reached a record level...manager, Mikkelsen says. Inland reported net margins of nearly $5 million for the year ended...in 1998. To an electric cooperative, net margins are the equivalent of net income at...

As rates stay steady...Inland Power reports decline in net margins

Journal of Business;  March 21, 2002 ;     314 words ......electric cooperative, posted a decline in net margins in 2001 compared with the year earlier...Power has maintained stable rates, its net margins fell by about 25 percent last year...biggest factor in the utility's decreased net margins were repair costs associated with a...

Ice storm chills down Inland Power's results

Journal of Business;  February 27, 1997 ;     332 words ......cooperative, posted a 28 percent decrease in net margins for 1996, due mostly to heavy expenses...manager. To an electric cooperative, net margins are the equivalent of a for-profit business's net income. Inland reported net margins of about $2.6 million for the year ended...

Vendors report modest gains. (manufacturers of drug store merchandise...

Chain Drug Review;  December 9, 1991 ;     380 words ......the group averaged 7.1%, while net margins weighed in at 12.6%. The group averages for earnings growth and net margins exclude Polaroid Corp., whose staggering...exceeded sales, thus, delivering net margins above 100%. Analysis of the group...

Petrofac profits likely to please analysts

Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);  December 19, 2007 ;     359 words ......the year with growth in revenue and net margins in both the engineering and construction...revenue growth and further expansion of net margins in the second half of the year in key...achieved good growth in revenue and net margins. It said: "The division has secured...

FEMA payment hikes Inland Power's results

Journal of Business;  April 9, 1998 ;     312 words ......cooperative, posted a 94 percent increase in net margins for 1997, due largely to a $2.1 million...1996 ice storm. Inland Power reported net margins of about $5.1 million for the year ended...1997. To an electrical cooperative, net margins are the equivalent of the net income...

Kenya Ranks Fifth Among World Best Airlines

Xinhua English Newswire;  August 29, 1996 ;     74 words ......ranked fifth among 150 leading airlines in the 1995 category of best net margins in the world, "East African Standard" reported today. Kenya Airways...Ethiopian Airlines come twelfth and sixteenth with 9.8 and 9.0 percent net margins respectively.

Littlewoods boost; News in brief.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 18, 2004 ;     35 words ...LITTLEWOODS has made great strides since being bought by the Barclay brothers in 2002. Underlying sales rose 5pc in the six months to October, with net margins up a massive 11pc. Improving customer service is next on the agenda.

PETROFAC (PFC).

Investors Chronicle;  March 24, 2006 ;     185 words ......revenues rise by 81 per cent, thanks to deals won in 2004. But net margins fell from 7 to 6.4 per cent, due primarily to how profits...The second-largest - operations services - saw revenue and net margins rise by 37 per cent and 2.6 per cent, respectively. This division...

CHAMBERLIN & HILL.

Investors Chronicle;  November 12, 2004 ;     30 words ...Main market. The group has had to deal with rises in the price of raw materials and energy. The resultant effect on net margins partially offset improvements from the higher levels of activity.

Play-By-Play Toys & Novelties, Inc. Comments On Business Outlook.

PR Newswire;  November 30, 1998 ;     482 words ......PBYP) said today, based on lower than expected sales and net margins in Europe, and continued weakness in the domestic retail toy...analysts consensus estimate of $0.31 per share. Play-By-Play said net margins decreased during the first quarter due to the expansion and...

Tesco beats fuel crisis as sales reach 5 per cent

The Scotsman;  November 29, 2000 ;     304 words ......year. A Tesco spokesman said: "We're looking to maintain the net margins we announced at the full year [of 5.8 per cent.]" Inflation...of the petrol disruption. Our strategy of broadly holding net margins and investing efficiency savings in prices and services for...

Giant Food net, volume rise for qtr. (quarter)

Chain Drug Review;  September 25, 1989 ;     280 words ......enabled the supermarket and combination store operator to post net margins of over 3% for the seventh consecutive reporting period. Volume...million, compared with $20.3 million. For the record, Giant's net margins were 3%; same-store sales rose 7.7%. A significant increase...