{"id":184343,"date":"2012-04-27T16:06:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T21:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=184343"},"modified":"2012-04-29T17:03:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T22:03:57","slug":"eastman-revenues-hit-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=184343","title":{"rendered":"Eastman Revenues Hit Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=184344\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-184344\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/04\/eastman_chemical__news_journal_pic_-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"eastman_chemical__news_journal_pic_\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-184344\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2014 Eastman Chemical Co. on Thursday posted record first quarter revenues, with company officials expressing optimism for the remainder of 2012. That\u2019s according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal. The Kingsport, Tenn.-based company, with operations in Longview, reported revenues of $1.821 billion, up about 4 percent from the $1.758 billion in revenues reported in the first quarter of 2011. The revenue figure also edged the previous top first quarter revenue figure of $1.803 billion in 2006. Revenue has increased for four quarters in a row.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe delivered solid first quarter results despite persistent global economic uncertainty, and we remain well positioned for full year earnings growth,\u201d chairman and CEO Jim Rogers said in a statement. \u201cIn addition, we are on track to complete the Solutia acquisition by mid-2012, which we expect will significantly enhance our earnings growth in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 Eastman Chemical Co. on Thursday posted record first quarter revenues, with company officials expressing optimism for the remainder of 2012. That\u2019s according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal. The Kingsport, Tenn.-based company, with operations in Longview, reported revenues of $1.821 billion, up about 4 percent from the $1.758 billion in revenues reported in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=184343\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eastman Revenues Hit Record<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 07:54:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184343"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184627,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184343\/revisions\/184627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}