The Hour Glass Limited, the purveyor of luxury watches, says net profit after tax improved by 21% to $11.1 million on higher gross margins attained for the third quarter ended 31 December 2010 (3Q FY2011). Group revenue was $144.2 million, a slight increase from $142.3 million from the last corresponding quarter.
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Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia is urging her fans to donate to the flood appeal in her native country after seeing the images of devastation just “an hour away” from where she lives. The “Torn” hitmaker flew into Queensland earlier this week and has been left horrified by the impact of floodwaters which are causing chaos [...]
The Hour Glass Group, one of Asia’s leading luxury watch retailers, says it registered a 4% rise in revenues to $232.9 million for half year ended 30 September 2010 (1H FY2011).
Profit after tax for the first half year increased 38% to $16.0 million and earnings per share was 6.67 cents for the half year ended 30 September 2010 (1H FY2011).
Renting cars by the hour is becoming big business
CAR clubs, whose members pay an annual fee and then rent a car by the hour on a pay-as-you-go basis, are moving from a fringe fad for greens to a big global business. Carmakers have no choice but to pay attention: one rental car can take the place of 15 owned vehicles.
Car-sharing started in Europe and spread to America in the late 1990s, when the first venture opened in Portland, Oregon, a traditional hangout of tree-huggers. For years it was organised by small co-operatives, often supported by local government. It still has a green tinge. One in five new cars added to club fleets is electric; such cars are good for short-range, urban use. But sharing is no longer small. …
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The billable hour is not dead, but many people would like to kill it
LAWYERS hate keeping track of their billable hours. Clients hate them even more; each month they receive bills showing that their legal representatives have worked improbably long hours at incredibly high rates. Billing by the hour often fails to align lawyers’ interests with their clients’. The chap in the wig or the white shoes has an incentive to spin things out for as long as possible. His client would rather win quickly and go home. Since there is clearly a demand for an alternative to the billable hour, you would expect someone to supply it. And indeed, this is starting to happen.
Many legal tasks, although not quite easy, are variations on a theme. The production of a certain document (such as a trademark registration) does not differ vastly from one instance to another. So more firms are using “document assembly” software such as that made by Basha Systems; Seth Roland, the company’s founder, says that his company’s software reduced the time needed to put together a certain type of real-estate lease from 40 hours to one. Automating the automatable stuff allows lawyers to spend more time talking to the client. Everyone wins (including Basha, which Mr Roland says has grown by between 15% and 20% a year for more than a decade). …
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Kim Eng Securities has downgraded Hour Glass (E5P.SG) to Hold from Buy, citing rising earnings risk in next 6-12 months, according to Dow Jones.
The Hour Glass Group, the retailer of specialist luxury watches, says it posted a 149% y-o-y rise in net profit to $33.5 million for the financial year ended 31 March 2010 (FY 2010), boosted by a strong rebound in consumer spending in the second half of FY2010.
Revenue for the full year jumped 10% to $483.7 million. Gross profit margins for the full year amounted to 20.1% while earnings per share rose 155% to 14.08 cents per share.
The coke is clouding Charlie’s ability to use common sense….Surely that’s the only way to explain why the accused batterer was photographed leaving the house of his alleged kept mistress wearing sunglasses and a fake moustache in a desperate bid to throw gossip bloodhounds off his scent. Hey Sheen, are we cheating or knocking over a [...]
US President Barack Obama’s visit to Kabul was shrouded in secrecy and even Afghan President Hamid Karzai was informed about his visit barely an hour before he arrived, a media report said Monday.
Karzai was notified about the visit just an hour before he arrived, Daily Mail quoted the White House as saying.
Obama Sunday made his [...]
An important trend in payroll solutions is integration with HR applications. For progressive organizations HR, Payroll and Benefit functions have tremendous overlap and sharing the data ensures that all systems are in sync and using the most recent and accurate data.
Could Conan’s finest hour come on the live stage? Former Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien is working on a deal to hit the road in a series of live performances across America, new reports claim. Under an exit agreement Conan inked with NBC earlier this month, the comedian must wait until September before he can [...]
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie gave their jaws some rigorous exercise after digging into a nearly six-hour meal in New York City.
The Hollywood couple, who are raising six kids together, were reportedly joined by three friends at Alto.
According to People magazine, the group called for two bottles of red wine, two bottles of white wine [...]
Michael Jackson’s deathbed doctor waited over an hour to call for help when he realised the pop star wasn’t breathing, and could not be found for hours afterward, according to a search warrant unsealed on Friday. The documents, which police filed to support their request to search a Las
After a 24-hour delay, Brooklyn native Jay-Z and Harlem’s own Alicia Keys got to perform their hit hometown anthem, “Empire State of Mind,” before Game 2 of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies the Bronx on Thursday night.
OSHA 10 hour course is the safety training that has been designed by the OSHA Training Institute in order to help workers understand the basic practice of recognizing, reducing, reporting or even eliminating the hazards associated with their workplace.
A newspaper has reported that Indian coast guards have detained a North Korean ship carrying a cargo of sugar off the countryÕs southeastern coast after a six-hour chase. The Times of India reported on Saturday that the ship, MV Musen, was chased by coast guards who fired in the air
The Taliban insurgents find it extremely easy to recruit unemployed impecunious young Afghans as part-time fighters. Most insurgents are in Taliban’s lines for money, not ideology.
