Quarto Hopes for Better Second Half

In an announcement released yesterday in the U.K, the Quarto Group said it will report lower than expected results for the first half of 2017, but that it expects business to improve in the second half of the year. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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