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...Last week, a verdict was passed down in the case of Walkers Snack Foods Ltd v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, with first-tier tribunal judges Anne Fairpo and Sonia Gable ruling against...
...Motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson is spinning off its electric bikes division and listing it on the stock market through a merger with a blank cheque company, taking a similar route as other electric vehicle...
...Yet strong results from the likes of Harley-Davidson and LVMH, owner of luxury brands Louis Vuitton and Tiffany, suggest that sales of higher-end goods remain robust....
...The latter is based on the open-source Risc-V architecture....
...Earlier on Tuesday motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson trimmed its shipments forecast for the year as tariffs weighed on its business....
...Harley-Davidson cut its profit margin forecast for the year as the motorcycle maker, caught in the crossfire of the US-EU trade war, said it expected tariffs to hit its business harder than previously thought...
...Harley-Davidson is facing a $2,200 per bike retaliatory tariff from the EU that it has said it will absorb....
...But while Mr Trump helps Foxconn celebrate in Racine county, Wisconsin — a key swing district that helped him win the presidency in 2016 — just up the road at Harley-Davidson, executives will be figuring...
...tariffs’ likely toll: the White House’s trade measures will cost Ford an estimated $500m-$600m this year, would cost GE $300m-$400m if it had taken no mitigating steps and are forecast to add $45m-$55m to Harley-Davidson...
...“Our actions to address the current environment through disciplined supply and cost management position us well as we drive to achieve our long-term objectives to build the next generation of Harley-Davidson...
...The escalating trade tensions have prompted responses from high-profile US companies including Harley-Davidson and General Motors, but are having much wider effects across the country’s manufacturing sector...
...Harley-Davidson similarly cited trade barriers as its motive for opening a plant there....
...Stroll through a toyshop or browse the internet and you can discover Dream Date Barbie, Sporty Barbie, Firefighter Barbie, Marie Antoinette Barbie, even Harley-Davidson Barbie....
...Harley-Davidson was the worst performer on the S&P 500 on Tuesday after the motorcycle maker posted a downbeat outlook and poor US sales in the second quarter, sending its shares down by their biggest one-day...
...Consumer stocks received a healthy boost from the latest strong batch of US employment data, helping the shares of companies such as Staples, Estee Lauder and Harley-Davidson to the top of the US stock market...
...Harley-Davidson, the US motorcycle company, surged 19.8 per cent to $54.25 on an unconfirmed takeover rumour reported by The Fly, a financial website....
...“I think anyone would struggle to be optimistic about the future of the industry,” says Katherine Davidson, auto sector specialist at Schroders, the fund manager....
...Ferrari and Harley-Davidson are among those making a decent chunk of their revenues from branded goods alongside their cars and motorbikes, for instance....
...Harley-Davidson , the US motorcycle manufacturer, rose 6.2 per cent to $53.49 as it said first quarter net profits jumped 44 per cent to $172m....
...Consumer discretionary stocks fell 0.4 per cent, with Harley Davidson , down 2.4 per cent to $35.15, suffering after a survey of dealers by RBC Capital Markets found sales growth likely slowed in August....
...Surrounded by impenetrable rainforest, this historic Brazilian rubber capital of some 2m people produces 90 per cent of Brazil’s motorcycles, including upmarket BMWs and Harley-Davidsons, most of its bicycles...
...The fun typically includes pep talks, demonstrations by well-known hairdressers and sometimes the arrival of Mr DeJoria – thanks to some stage trickery – astride a flying Harley-Davidson motorcycle....
...Mr Wandell said that one of Harley’s priorities was “to aggressively manage supply in line with demand”....
...The plan was to out-Harley the top-selling market leader, Harley-Davidson, with a range of bigger, more extrovert machines – but very much in the company’s mould of long, large bikes with large-capacity...
...But where Japanese bike makers have also aped Harleys by using V-twin motors, Triumph has given itself a unique selling point with a parallel twin engine....
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