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Republic Services Inc.'s (RSG) first-quarter profit slipped 13% as pension-related costs and restructuring charges weighed on the waste-collection and recycling-services company's bottom line and revenue was relatively flat from a year earlier.The second-largest U.S. trash hauler behind Waste Management Inc. (WM) is undertaking plans to restructure its field and corporate operations to try to reduce overhead expenses by about $23 million a year. The changes include the consolidation of its field regions into three from four, relocating office space and reducing administrative staffing levels.For the latest quarter, Republic reported a profit of $124.6 million, or 34 cents a share, down from $142.9 million, or 38 cents a share, a year earlier. Excluding restructuring charges, loss on debt extinguishment and other items, per-share earnings rose to 46 cents from 38 cents.Revenue edged up 0.8% to $2 billion.Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters were expecting income of 41 cents on revenue of ...
Waste Management Inc.'s (WM) third-quarter earnings fell 21% as the waste-disposal company felt the impacts of a decline in recycling-commodity prices and charges re...
Dozens of U.S. companies postponed releasing quarterly results after superstorm Sandy hit the U.S. east coast, disrupting power supplies and transportation and flood...
Dozens of U.S. companies postponed releasing quarterly results as Sandy, one of the biggest storms to hit the United States, pounded the east coast, flooding large p...
The garbage industry has long worked on the principle that people produce trash in good times and in bad, but even rubbish volumes dropped during the 2008 recession....
Republic Services Inc.'s (RSG) second-quarter profit more than tripled as the trash hauler recorded a lower provision for income taxes and also smaller debt-related ...
Waste Management Inc.'s (WM) second-quarter earnings fell 12% as restructuring costs put a weight on the waste disposal company's profits and revenue grew less than ...
DOW JONES NEWSWIRESWaste Management Inc .'s (WM) fourth-quarter earnings fell 5.3% amid higher charges though the waste-disposal company saw higher revenue.The compa...
Waste Management Inc.'s (WM) first-quarter earnings edged down 1.8% as the waste-disposal company booked restructuring charges, while revenue and adjusted profit ros...
Waste Management Inc.'s (WM) first-quarter earnings edged down 1.8% as the waste-disposal company booked restructuring charges, while revenue and adjusted profit ros...
Truckers considering natural gas as an alternative to high-priced diesel say the cost of vehicles that run on the cheap and cleaner-burning fuel is still too high fo...
Waste Management Inc.'s (WM) fourth-quarter earnings fell 16% on the waste-disposal company's higher costs.Results missed Wall Street estimates, and Waste Management...
Republic Services Inc.'s (RSG) fourth-quarter earnings fell 34% as the waste-collection and recycling-services company recorded restructuring charges and higher oper...
The election results were clear, but the path forward is not. With Washington moving on with essentially the same trilateral team that froze fiscal policy for the la...
Republic Services Inc. (RSG) third-quarter earnings fell 21% as the company reported revenue declines as lower volume and other impacts offset the benefit of higher ...
