Covance Reports 3Q08 Earnings of $0.80 Per Share.
- 11.1% Revenue Growth; Record Operating Margin of 15.9%; Backlog Grows $1.2B to $4.2B - PRINCETON, N.J., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Covance Inc. today reported earnings for its third quarter ended September 30, 2008 of $0.80 per diluted share, representing 15.9% year-over-year EPS growth. "In...

Techne Corporation Releases Unaudited First Quarter Results for Fiscal Year 2009.
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Techne Corporation's consolidated net earnings for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 increased 23.9% to $28.6 million or $.74 per diluted share compared with $23.1 million or $.58 per diluted share for the quarter ended September 30, 2007. Net earnings as a percentage of...

Essilor - Financial Information for the First Nine Months of 2008.
CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, October 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Robust Organic Growth, Revenue up 5.4% Essilor International, the world leader in ophthalmic optics, today announced its consolidated revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2008. Consolidated revenue - nine months EUR millions 2008 2007 % change...

Lebanon - 2009 Will Decide If It's A State Or Just A Place For Global Power Games.
*** With Egypt Set To Host 'Final' Reconciliation Talks Between Fatah & Hamas By End-October, Iran Is Said To Have Created A Hizbullah In The Hamas-Ruled Gaza Strip, A Place Where Al-Qaeda Now Has A Base As Well As A 'Higher Shi'ite Council' And Other Gangs, According To A...

Saint-Gobain: Sales for the First Nine Months of 2008.
+2.5% On a Reported Basis +2.4% Like-for-Like COURBEVOIE, France, October 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Saint-Gobain Group delivered consolidated sales of EUR33,435 million for the first nine months of 2008, versus EUR32,630 million for the same year-ago period, representing a rise of 2.5% on a reported...

United Business Media's Chief Executive Officer, David Levin, to Speak at Future of Business Media Conference, Sharing Insight on the Internationalization of Business Media.
MANHASSET, N.Y., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United Business Media Limited (UBM), a leading global media and marketing services company, today announced that David Levin, Chief Executive Officer, will speak at the Future of Media Business Conference in New York City on October 28 (http://www.fobmconference.com/). Levin will participate on a...

Damien's cat.
It seems that not all works by golden boy Damien Hirst are valued at six-figure sums. A cat he painted at the age of 17 has been valued at a mere 5,000 [pounds sterling]. Its owner, Julie Stainforth, has vowed that she would never sell it in any case....

Moore money.
The Henry Moore Foundation has contributed 500,000 [pounds sterling] to the Artist Rooms endowment fund. Artist Rooms is the collection given by Anthony d'Offay to the UK earlier this year, and which National Galleries of Scotland and Tate will co-own and administer. The grant, the largest given in the...

Moore liverpool.
The winner of this year's John Moores Painting Prize is Gary McDonald for his painting Fontana in which the artist is depicted slashing his own canvas. The title references Italian artist Lucio Fontana, famous for his 'Concetto Spaziale' series of paintings in which he literally cut into space, slashing...

This little piggy went to market.
The stock market is all about confidence: a slight wobble here, a rumour there will turn a bull market into a bear market, causing share prices to fall. And no institution is immune from attack by short sellers: three days before the two-day sale of Damien Hirst's work on...