July 30, 2008 - 8:01 p.m. NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of Energizer Holdings Inc., which makes batteries, razors and personal care products, declined on Wednesday after fiscal third-quarter profit came in worse than expected. The stock fell $2.80, or 3.6 percent, to $74.28. Shares of the company have declined about 30 percent so far this year. Energizer's third-quarter profit rose 7 percent on gains from its purchase of Playtex, but adjusted profit and sales still ...
Owens-Illinois 2nd-quarter profit climbs 60 percent despite rising manufacturing costs
Jul 31 2008
July 30, 2008 - 6:55 p.m. PERRYSBURG, Ohio (AP) - Owens-Illinois Inc., which makes glass containers, said Wednesday its second-quarter profit rose 60 percent being of the class who rising costs were offset by higher price tags for its wares. Earnings for the three months ended June 30 climbed to $231.3 million, or $1.35 per share, from $144.3 million, or 89 cents per share, in the same time last year. Analysts, attached average, forecast earnings of ...
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Court accept employee-based bid for Harmac mill in Nanaimo worth $13.2 million
Jul 31 2008
Brenda Bouw, The Canadian Press July 30, 2008 - 6:44 p.m. VANCOUVER - The storied Harmac pulp mill in Nanaimo, B.C. was saved from permanent closure Wednesday, and along by it hundreds of jobs, after a judge ruled in favour of an employee bid to buy and run the operation. Paul Sadler, a director of Nanaimo Forest Products, the group behind the bid for the former Pope & Talbot operation, said B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald Brenner accepted ...
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Q&A: Crescent Point’s Scott Saxberg
Jul 31 2008
Q&A: Crescent Point’s Scott Saxberg <!-- Q&A: Crescent Point’s Scott Saxberg Michelle Magnan Energy trust, Oil patch, Saskatchewan, Royalties 20080730 The energy trust’s president and CEO on the discovery of a lifetime, royalty review fallout and why Saskatchewan is attracting tons of oil and gas dollars. /managing/ceo_interviews/ --> In a world of floundering trusts, Scott Saxberg president and CEO of Calgary-based Crescent Point Energy Trust, has pulled off some impressive numbers. The oil and gas trust recently announced ...
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U.S. House votes to ban lead from toys and other children’s goods
Jul 31 2008
Jim Abrams, The Associated Press July 30, 2008 - 7:29 p.m. WASHINGTON - Alarmed by a year of recalls targeting millions of tainted toys, the House voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to ban lead and other risky chemicals from items such as jewelry and rubber ducks that could end up in kids' mouths. The legislation also would toughen rules instead of testing children's products and take steps to give more muscle to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which was criticized ...
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