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Retail sales up less than expected in April
The Australian
Retail sales rose 0.2 per cent in April from a month earlier, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said today, compared with the 0.3 per cent rise expected by economists. Sales for March were unrevised at a fall of 0.4 per cent. Western Australia, a ...
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Retail sector records soft growth
Sydney Morning Herald
AAP. Australia's retail sector is in a better place than it was a year ago, but growth remains soft. Retail spending was up 0.2 per cent in April, seasonally adjusted, compared to the previous month, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures ...
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Retailers benefit from avoiding price discounting
Scotsman
Don Williams, national head of retail and wholesale at BDO, said fashion stores had learnt from previous years and were not panicking in the face of poor weather and consumers who were still reluctant to spend. Instead, retailers stuck to their guns ...
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Scotsman
Tax burden soars 65% for UK's big retailers
Financial Times
The tax burden on big retailers has increased two-thirds over the past seven years, reaching nearly £8.3bn last year, according to new research from PwC. PwC found the tax take from retailers in the Hundred Group of companies, which includes most of ...
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AUD awaits retail sales data and the RBA
TheBull.com.au
The RBA elected to cut the official cash by 25 bps in May, thereby dramatically decreasing the likelihood of a rate cut in June. Economic data since the RBA chose to ease monetary conditions hasn't been significantly bad enough to suggest that the bank ...
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Social and Gamification in Retail: A Recipe for Tremendous Growth
Multichannel Merchant
Gamification has moved beyond the realm of being a clever idea as it rapidly evolves into a key marketing and advertising tool for retailers and brands. According to a recent report by Gartner analyst Brian Burke, 50% of companies involved in new ...
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LVMH Lipstick Growing Bigger Than Bags as Vuitton Slows: Retail
Businessweek
Happily for Vuitton's owner, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA (MC), Le Sassier is crazy about the 13.90-euro ($18) foundation sold by Sephora, the company's fast-growing fragrance and cosmetics retailer. "I love their makeup," she said. "And it's ...
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Retail spending up in April
Yahoo!7 News
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Which of Australia's biggest retailers should you bet on?
The Motley Fool
It's been an interesting few months for Australia's discretionary retail stocks. Investors holding David Jones (ASX:DJS), Myer (ASX:MYR), Super Retail (ASX:SUL) and JB Hi-Fi (ASX:JBH) have watched share prices increase between 10% and 35% in recent ...
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A Plea to the Retail Investors
AllAboutAlpha.com (blog)
This book, then, is an appeal to the retail crowd, those Rice calls "typical investors," passing along the good news that they are no longer "stuck with the children's menu of investment options," both because new products, liquid alternatives, have ...
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State urges health insurers to let patients buy 'specialty' drugs at retail ...
Buffalo News
Health insurance companies should allow certain patients to buy "specialty" drug prescriptions at community pharmacies rather than requiring the use of mail-order services, according to the state Attorney General's Office. In a letter to 15 New York ...
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Call for a thorough chicken inquiry
BDlive
ASK any butcher and he'll tell you there are very few products that fly out of the freezer as fast as a well-priced "2kg" — those bags of individually quick-frozen chicken pieces. More than 2.5-million chickens are eaten every day in South Africa ...
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Don't overestimate loyalty card benefits
Adelaide Now
RETAIL loyalty schemes seemingly promote consumer savings such as free vouchers and cheap airfares, but they also offer a lot for the retailers. Supermarkets and other retailers have competing loyalty schemes but national consumer group Choice says it ...
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Plenary Group attracts budding chefs to shipping container food hall concept ...
Property Observer
Up and coming chefs are lining up for the opportunity to show case their cooking skills in a new concept food hall, with eateries constructed out of old shipping containers. There are 11 colourfully painted shipping containers in The General Assembly ...
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How your career can be improved by retail therapy
The Times (subscription)
He runs a business that serves 19 million customers a week and has annual sales of more than £22 billion. As a teenager, however, Andy Clarke was more interested in breaching the opposition try line than the upper echelons of management. And the Asda ...
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Franchise code audit may deter retailers
The Australian
"The overall impact could lead to investors moving away from franchising to another retail model in Australia, and any increase in compliance costs is likely to be ultimately passed on to consumers," she said. The government is considering 18 ...
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Dubai-based oil retailers Enoc, Eppco lower diesel prices
Pakistan Observer
Monday, June 03, 2013 - Abu Dhabi—Dubai-based oil retailers Emirates National Oil Company (Enoc) and Emirates Petroleum Products Company (Eppco) have lowered diesel prices by 20 fils a litre across all their service stations effective. The new diesel ...
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