Profit Warning

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Profit Warning

An informal announcement by a publicly-traded company that its earnings for a given quarter or year will be less than expected. This is done to price out the company's share price and avoid a sell-off or other volatility when the earnings are actually announced.

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Because plain packages with pictorial health warnings were shown to receive low positive perception scores as compared to standard packages for cigarettes, (20) the same is expected for alcohol:

Alcohol warning label perceptions: emerging evidence for alcohol policy

Although some product hazard warnings are so obvious they make us chuckle (such as "coffee is hot"), failure to include proper warnings on products can expose a company to legal risks that are no laughing matter.

Warning: fourthingstoavoid when developing your products' warnings (no joke)

Warnings take a while to issue and the Rothbury warning was in a queue.

Agency apologises for missing alert; Warning 'was in a queue' say officials ROTHBURY

THE pictorial health warnings on tobacco products, introduced to motivate tobacco users to kick the habit and deter non- users, appear to have failed to achieve their objectives.

Not gruesome enough to stub the stick

Health warnings on individual cigarettes could help to reduce smoking, according to a new Stirling study.

Uni's visible cig alert study

PESHAWAR -- Health warnings printed on individual cigarettes could play a key role in reducing smoking, said a new research.

Health warnings on cigarette may reduce smoking

ISLAMABAD -- Health warnings printed on individual cigarettes could play a key role in reducing smoking, said a new research.

Health warnings on each cigarette may help reduce smoking

Azhar Saleem shared that pictorial health warnings on tobacco packages are a cost-effective means to increase public awareness about the dangers of tobacco use.

HDF holds media session

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing a proposed rule to establish new required health warnings for cigarette packages and advertisements, which would apply to imports, the agency said.

FDA Hopes To Spark New Anti-Smoking Labels

Twelve profit warnings were issued by listed companies based in the Midlands in the second quarter of 2019 - double the number seen in the same quarter in 2018, according to EY's latest Profit Warnings Report.