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Hilti Group grew sales by 4.3 percent in 2019
The Hilti Group grew sales by 4.3 percent in the 2019 business year to CHF 5.9 billion. In local currencies, growth was 6.3 percent against the previous year.
"2019 was another successful year for us with exclusively organic growth. The...
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Dubais economy rises 2.1% YoY in H1 2019 boosted by real estate, retail
Dubai's economy rose by 2.1% year-on-year (YoY) to a GDP of $56.68bn (AED208.2 bn) at constant prices in H1 2019, buoyed by a strong wholesale and retail sector, as well as manufacturing, real estate and construction activity, according to...
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Bentley acquires Citilabs and Orbit Geospatial Technologies
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twin cloud services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, announced the acquisitions of global mobility simulation (CUBE) and analytics (Streetlytics) software provider Citilabs, and...
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Procore Technologies consolidates its position by eyeing an IPO
Cloud-based construction management software application firm, Procore Technologies heads for the public markets. The company is reportedly working with the Goldman Sachs Group to lead an IPO which could value the company for more than $4 billion. The expected...
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Kier Group amidst revamp, posts £245m pre-tax loss
Kier Group PLC, a UK construction, services and property group active in building and civil engineering, has reported a loss of £245m before tax. The dip can be attributed to the cost associated with restructuring the business. However, Kier’s...
Building Products
NPK Construction Equipment of Walton Hills buys Genesis Attachments LLC
NPK Construction Equipment , a subsidiary of Nippon Pneumatic Mfg. Co. LTD , is very excited to announce that NPKCE has purchased Genesis Attachments LLC , Genesis Holdings , and Genesis GmbH.
We are very excited about this new partnership...
Building Products
Construction Machinery: Italian exports Grew in 2018 to almost 3 Billion Euros
Positive results for Italian exports. In 2018, according to analysis by Prometeia based on Istat data, there was another increase for exports of construction machinery (+5.7%), worth 2 billion 958 million euros.
This performance was outlined in the SaMoTer Outlook...
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