Hasbro makes Transformer toys, and the third segment in that franchise, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, was released last year.
The two variants share many design features but use different engines in their third segment, or stage - the part of the Soyuz said to have been responsible for the failure five days ago.
But on that fateful Friday, when the North American plate slid over the Pacific plate along a subduction zone running 130km (80 miles) off the Pacific coast of northern Japan, the shock leapt from the first segment to a second and on to a third, extending the fault zone some 400km and increasing its intensity more than 30-fold.
Sales in the so-called mini segment jumped by more than a third, while those in the supermini category rose 18%.
The margins in the energy drinks segment are so high that although TNT only holds the third position with a bit more than 4% of overall market share, Petropolis Group has announced it will sponsor Scuderia Ferrari Formule One team for the next three years.
The third quarter saw PayPal reinforcing its mobile payments segment with strategic acquisitions such as Zong.
Revenues have been on the decline for a third straight year, even with strong growth in digital imaging segment.
The hardware segment, shrinking since 2011, may suffer sooner: For the third quarter ended in March, trailing 9-month sales were down 17%.
Specialty Materials segment sales are anticipated to be consistent with the record performance of the third quarter.
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Nokia sales declined during the quarter, and with only 7.2 million of its smartphones filling customers' hands, its ranking in this segment plummeted from third to seventh (although Gartner expects sales of the new Lumia devices should soften the fall in Q4).
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