Japan Tobacco sees record high sales, profits vs. red ink year earlier.

Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan);  October 29, 2004 ;     255 words ......profit came to 75.05 billion yen compared with a year-before loss of 49.23 billion yen, and pretax profit to 137.83 billion yen, up 15.9 percent from a year earlier, on sales that increased 2.2 percent to 2,369.26 billion yen. The company said the year-befo...4 percent ...

NTT DoCoMo reports a group net income of 610.48b yen ($5.33b) for the...

Wireless Asia;  May 1, 2006 ;     57 words ......reports a group net income of 610.48b yen ($5.33b) for the fiscal year ended March 31, down 18% from 747.56b yen ($6.6b) a year earlier. Yearly sales fell 1.6% to 4.77 trillion yen ($41.6b), from 4.84 trillion yen ($42b) a year ago, hurt by a 14.2...

Less than a month after exiting the German market and three months after...

Grocer;  August 26, 2006 ;     78 words ......subsidiary Seiyu has reported that its half-year net loss widened to [yen] 54.03bn (246m [pounds sterling]) from [yen] 10.59bn a year earlier, on sales down 2.9% to [yen] 467.94bn. The loss was blamed on restructuring costs and weaker revenue...

Softbank posts a record full-year net loss of 107.09b yen ($941m) compared...

Telecom Asia;  June 1, 2004 ;     43 words ...Softbank posts a record full-year net loss of 107.09b yen ($941m) compared with a loss of nearly 100 billion yen a year earlier. The company attributes the loss to heavy marketing costs, but says it expects to turn profitable during the second half of the current business year.

Fujitsu bounces back to profit from year-earlier loss

AP Worldstream;  October 28, 2004 ;     182 words ......loss in the same period a year ago. Tokyo-based Fujitsu posted...net profit of 3.6 billion yen (US$33.8 million; euro 26...quarter, bouncing back from its year-earlier loss of 18.7 billion yen. In the first fiscal half...loss of 58.56 billion yen a year earlier, thanks ...

Budget carrier easyJet reports 9.4 percent traffic gain in February vs....

AP Worldstream;  March 7, 2006 ;     74 words ......passengers in February, up 9.4 percent from the same month a year earlier. However, with the airline expanding its fleet the number seats occupied fell to 83.7 percent compared to 85.9 percent a year earlier. Total revenue for the 12 months was up 19.8 percent to 1...

SingTel's second quarter net profit rises 18.6% from a year earlier, as...

Telecom Asia;  December 1, 2006 ;     42 words ...SingTel's second quarter net profit rises 18.6% from a year earlier, as growth from its regional mobile associates offset lower profits in Australia. SingTel's net profit for the three months ending September 30 was S$956m ($612m), up from S$806m ($516m) a year earlier.

Norway's Telenor swings to net profit for fourth quarter from year-earlier...

AP Worldstream;  February 16, 2006 ;     407 words ......for the fourth quarter from a loss a year earlier. The group said its net profit for the...with a loss of 430 million kroner a year earlier. "We have seen another quarter with...billion) in the fourth quarter from a year earlier. Earnings in the fourth quarter of 2005...

Fed: April job vacancies 25% better than year earlier - survey

AAP General News (Australia);  May 7, 2002 ;     109 words ...00-00-0000 Fed: April job vacancies 25% better than year earlier - survey A government job provider says work vacancies in April were up nearly 24 per cent on a year earlier. Employment National's job orders for the month were down by one per...

QLD: SEQ growth plan to be released a year earlier

AAP General News (Australia);  May 5, 2008 ;     171 words ......Australia) 05-05-2008 QLD: SEQ growth plan to be released a year earlier BRISBANE, May 5 AAP - The Queensland government's major plan...and development in the south-east corner will be released a year earlier than planned, Premier Anna Bligh says. The South East Queensland...

One in five shoppers who ordered from a catalog during the 2002 holiday...

The Food Institute Report;  July 28, 2003 ;     36 words ...* One in five shoppers who ordered from a catalog during the 2002 holiday season placed the order online, up from 16% a year earlier; 44% of catalog shoppers also shopped online in 2002, up from 41% in 2001 ... Research ALERT (July 4)

FPT earns 631b dong ($37.5m) in first-half gross profit, up 24.6% from a...

Telecom Asia;  August 1, 2008 ;     31 words ...FPT earns 631b dong ($37.5m) in first-half gross profit, up 24.6% from a year earlier. FPT also posted second-quarter gross earnings of 328b dong ($19.5m), up from 303b dong ($18m) in the first quarter.

Supercenter/club sales rose 7% in October over year...

The Food Institute Report;  December 17, 2007 ;     300 words ......brought cumulative 2007 sales to $250.3 billion--9.2% more than a year earlier. Drug stores and pharmacies rang up sales of $16.9 billion during the month, up 4% from a year earlier, and more than double the 1.7% gain posted during September...

Finland's joblessness down in January from year earlier

AP Worldstream;  February 18, 2003 ;     127 words ......unemployment rate fell to 9.5 percent in January from 9.9 percent a year earlier, the government statistics agency said Tuesday. In December...year-olds was 20.4 percent in January, down from 24.3 percent a year earlier, the agency said. The latest total figure means that in January...

'96 STILL AHEAD OF LAST YEAR June a stormy month for home building here...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 4, 1996 ;   MICHELE DERUS;   360 words ......construction was down about 10% from a year earlier and June residential contracts for future...July's progress, were 9% lower than a year earlier, records show. But even two lousy months...241 dwelling units up 580 from 2,661 a year earlier. Neighboring Milwaukee, Ozaukee and...