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Traditional Chinese medicine retailer Eu Yan Sang said its net profit rose 30 per cent to S$25 million in the year ended June 30. The company said revenue rose nine per cent S$266 million, marking the 11th consecutive year of record sales. Eu Yan Sang attributed the gain to growth in its retail businesses and clinics. The opening of new stores helped, with 26 retail outlets and four new clinics added in its core markets of Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. The group added that all its three markets registered growth. Its largest market, Hong Kong, saw a 14 per cent increase in revenue, while Singapore climbed 13 per cent. Malaysia's revenue rose 10 per cent. Eu Yan Sang said it aims to expand further in China and Southeast Asia. This includes plans to open up to 10 retail stores in China. Eu Yan Sang group chief executive officer Richard Eu said economies in Asia head weathered the recent months of volatility, and consumer demand is likely to remain buoyan...

The Company was incorporated in Singapore on 23 March 1999 under the name of L & E Rent’A’Car Pte Ltd. It changed its name to Ezra Marine Engineering & Construction Pte Ltd on 6 January 2000 and to Ezra Holdings Pte Ltd on 2 October 2000. On 24 June 2003, it was converted into a public limited company and renamed Ezra Holdings Limited. The Group provides offshore support vessels and services to the offshore oil and gas industry. It also provides the shipping industry with other marine services such as provision of marine supplies and engineering services. Its business activities are carried out by its offshore support services division and marine services division. Chart Nexus

euNetworks, a subsidiary of euNetworks Group Limited, announced that it has executed and completed a definitive agreement to acquire German based TeraGate AG Storage Optical Network, a company of DB Industrial Holdings Beteiligungs (a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank), and of EGORA Holding. According to a release, the acquisition is a natural addition to the Group following the LambdaNet acquisition, with an enterprise customer base predominantly served in the German market. The acquisition closed. TeraGate is a service provider for next generation Corporate WAN in Germany with a high-end customer base and a market leading value proposition. Offering both national and international solutions to medium and large enterprises, TeraGate's product portfolio is based on intelligent Ethernet and efficient data centre and cloud services. TeraGate operates in Germany, headquartered in Munich, with technical headquarters in Frankfurt. "The acquisition of TeraGate was ...

Established in 1995, the Company was incorporated in Singapore on 18 September 1999. On 5 January 2000, it was converted into a public company, at which time its name was changed to "Horizon.com Limited". Horizon.com is an investment holding company and acts as a corporate manager, adviser and administrative centre to support the business development and marketing of the businesses of its subsidiaries. The name of the Company was subsequently changed to Horizon Education and Technologies Limited wef 7 February 2002. On 27 December 2004, the company changed its name to Global Voice Group Limited, following the successful reverse takeover of Horizon by Global Voice Group (GV), a corporation which is established in Ireland in early 2002. GV owns and operates highly secure optical fibre networks and duct infrastructure across 14 leading European cities including: ’ Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin, Stuttgart, Hanover, Hamburg, Dusseldorf & Cologne. ’ ...

The Company was incorporated in Singapore on 9 April 2002 as a private company under the name of Afor Pte Ltd. The Company was converted to a public company and changed its name to Afor Limited on 10 December 2007. Afor Limited is a one’stop premium retailer specialising in the sale of Apple brand products and its complementary products. Its products are sold to the retail market through its EpiCentres located in Wheelock Place and Suntec City Mall. In September 2007, Afor opened its EpiCentre@Pavilion at Pavilion Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. The Group’s products can be categorised primarily into the following groups:’ (i) Apple Brand Products As an Apple Premium Reseller, its retail Apple brand products which include iPods, Macs, Apple TV, accessories (like earphones, armbands, charging docks, keyboards, mouse, remotes, cable, connectors and adaptors) and a variety of software. In addition, to complement the sale of Apple brand products, the Group also ...

Ellipsiz is a probe card company and manufacturing solutions provider. It serves the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing services (EMS) industries. Its four core businesses are probe card manufacturing, wafer reclaim, equipment distribution & services and test & inspection’related services for printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs). Ellipsiz currently has operations in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam, China, France and USA and a global network of sales and customer support centres. Ellipsiz is listed on the main board of the Singapore Exchange. It employs more than 1,300 people worldwide and achieved revenue of S$186.0 million and net profi t of S$26.1 million for the fi nancial year ended 30 June 2006. The Company changed its name from SingaTrust Limited to Ellipsiz Ltd on 2 February 2001. Chart Nexus

The Company was incorporated in Singapore on 12 November 2002 under the name of ecoWise Holdings Pte Ltd. On 3 March 2003, it was converted into a public limited company and renamed ecoWise Holdings Limited. The Group is principally involved in the collection and recycling of wood waste, horticultural waste and used copper slag. The Group is a licensed general waste collector. It provides clearance and disposal services for copper slag and general waste including wooden crates and pallets. It is an appointed clearing contractor of used copper slag and general waste for certain major shipyards and fabrication yards in Singapore. It has the technical know’how and facilities to process and recycle the waste into usable products. Such waste includes horticultural waste comprising tree branches and plant trimmings, urban wood waste and used copper slag. The Group reconstructs wood waste into wooden pallets. For horticultural waste, it is crushed into wood...

AIMS AMP Capital Industrial REIT ("AIMSAMPIREIT" or the "Trust") is a real estate investment trust ("REIT") that was first listed on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited ("SGX-ST") on 19 April 2007 under MacarthurCook Industrial REIT. The Trust has the investment objective of owning and investing in a diversified portfolio of income-producing industrial real estate assets in Singapore and Asia. As at 31 March 2011, AIMSAMPIREIT's portfolio comprised 26 industrial properties located in Singapore with an appraised total value of $853.2 million. The Trust's portfolio is diversified across the key industrial subsectors of: warehouse and logistics, manufacturing, business parks and hi-tech space. The properties house a tenant base of international and local companies engaged in a wide range of economic activity, including construction and engineering, logistics and warehousing, energy, metal recycling, plastic p...

The Group was incorporated in Singapore on 2 August 2002 under the name of Action Asia Limited. The Group designs, manufactures and assembles mobile audio and video entertainment products. It is able to integrate sophisticated components into complete solutions which perform an array of functions customized specifically to its target market’s individual needs. Its products are broadly classified into mobile entertainment products and portable indoor/outdoor products. Incorporating the latest innovations in Thin Film Transistor’Liquid Crystal Display (TFT’LCD) technology, its mobile products are installed mainly in automobiles and commercial vehicles. Its other portable products are targeted at homes, hospitals and outdoors. Action Asia’s products are marketed chiefly to automobile manufacturers/dealers, automobile accessories dealers and hypermarkets worldwide. Chart Nexus

Home-grown retailer Sheng Siong has announced its initial public offering (IPO) was oversubscribed by approximately 1.3 times. This was based on a total of 351.5 million Invitation Shares and the total valid applications received, amounting to approximately 448.7 million Invitation Shares. They comprised approximately 85.3 million Offer Shares and 363.4 million Placement Shares. The supermarket chain said it received strong interest from retail investors and backed by quality institutional investors. Anchor investors for the IPO include JF Asset Management Limited and Prudential Asset Management (Singapore) Limited. Sheng Siong is due to start trading on the Singapore Exchange on August 17, despite turbulence in the global market. It had told MediaCorp it would not be swayed from its IPO plans, no matter how volatile the market has been. According to Sheng Siong, as at the close of the invitation at 12pm on August 15, 2011, there were 4,490 valid applications receive...

A-Sonic Aerospace has been removed from the Singapore Exchange's (SGX) watch-list after the firm posted net profits of US$1.43 million in the first quarter of this year. A-Sonic, which operates logistics and aerospace component distributorships, was subsequently removed from the watch-list on May 20 pursuant to SGX listing rules. The firm had been placed on SGX's watch-list since September last year for reporting three straight years of losses. The company then posted a strong full-year net profit of US$11.2 million in the previous year ended December 31, indicating A-Sonic's recovery. Companies who fail to meet SGX's criteria and requirements will be placed on the watch-list. To be removed from the watch-list, the company has to report a pre-tax profit or have a minimum market capitalisation of S$40 million. -CNA/wk

PetroChina Company Limited (PetroChina) is an oil and gas producer and seller in the People’s Republic of China. The Company operates in four segments: Exploration and Production, Refining and Chemicals, Marketing, and Natural Gas and Pipeline. The Company is engaged in a range of petroleum and natural gas related activities, including the exploration, development, production and sale of crude oil and natural gas; the refining of crude oil and petroleum products, as well as the production and marketing of basic petrochemical products, derivative chemical products and other chemical products; the marketing and trading of refined oil products, and the transmission of natural gas, crude oil and refined oil products, as well as the sale of natural gas. On August 23, 2010, Arrow Energy Holdings Pty Ltd acquired 100% equity interest in Arrow Energy Limited. Google Finance

Peet's Coffee & Tea, Inc. (Peet's) is a specialty coffee roaster and marketer of fresh roasted whole bean coffee and tea. The Company sells its coffee through multiple channels of distribution, including grocery stores, home delivery, office, restaurant and food service accounts and Company-owned and operated stores in six states. The Company operates its business through two segments: retail and specialty sales. As of January 3, 2010, the Company operated 192 retail stores in six states, through which the Company sells whole bean coffee, beverages and pastries, tea and other related items. Its stores are designed to facilitate the sale of fresh whole bean coffee and to encourage customer trial of its coffee through coffee beverages. Each store has a staff person at the bean counter to take orders and assist customers with questions on coffee origins and on home brewing. Google Finance

Starbucks Corporation (Starbucks) is the roaster and retailer of specialty coffee in the world, operating in more than 50 countries. Starbucks purchases and roasts whole bean coffees and sells them, along with handcrafted coffee and tea beverages and a variety of fresh food items, through Company-operated retail stores. It also sells coffee and tea products and license its trademarks through other channels, such as licensed retail stores and, through certain of its licensees and equity investees, the Company produces and sells a variety of ready-to-drink beverages. In addition to its flagship Starbucks brand, its portfolio includes brands, such as Tazo Tea, Seattle’s Best Coffee, and Starbucks VIA Ready Brew. Starbucks has three operating segments: United States (US), International, and Global Consumer Products Group (CPG). In October 2010, the Company acquired Magic Johnson Enterprise’s remaining 50% interest in Urban Coffee Opportunities. Google Finance

As they say..."the trend is your friend".                                                                                                                                                   Well, EAHC (Explore Anywhere Holding Corp.) gained more momentum  yesterday ...

Green energy is a trend that we are firm believers in for the long haul. Companies that demonstrate they can succeed in this space are all worth looking at, but none has our attention right now more than GreenHouse Holdings Inc. (GRHU). GRHU is an emerging provider of energy efficient and environmentally sustainable solutions, designs and sells products and technologies that enable its clients to reduce their energy costs and carbon footprint. Apparently GRHU is in the right place at the right time, poised to benefit significantly from United States legislated cost cutting efforts in the Defense budget. (Read more) And just recently, GRHU’s subsidiary Controls Engineering, Inc. locked in over $160,000 in revenue to the Energy Division of GreenHouse. (Read more) Not a monstrous deal, but when you consider how young this company is and what they have been able to achieve already it is quite impressive. Keep in mind, GRHU is a green machine whose 1Q revenues increased by 33% t...