Thursday, March 22, 2012

Retail sales edge up in January

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Retail sales disappoint
Toronto Sun
Retail sales rose by much less than expected in January, adding to recent gloomy economic data that signals the economy may have contracted at the start of the year. Retail sales increased by 0.5% in January and would have fallen had it not been for a ...
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Canadian Bonds Higher After Retail Sales Miss, Poor Global PMI Data
Wall Street Journal
By David George-Cosh Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES TORONTO (Dow Jones)-Canadian bonds rallied early Thursday, looking to extend gains for the second-straight day, after lower-than-expected Canadian retail sales data and poor manufacturing data out of China ...
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Christian Louboutin | In luxury retail, positive customer experience is the key
Livemint
Between opening a store in a retail space dedicated to luxury and a luxury hotel that offers space for a boutique, which would you choose? I have been looking around for the location of stores in India, but I did not like the idea of setting up a store ...
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Retail sales edge up in January
Canada.com
By Financial Post, Postmedia News March 22, 2012 OTTAWA - Canada's retail sales rose in January, but came in well below expectations thanks to the country's stagnating employment situation and sluggish income growth. Retail sales grew 0.5 per cent in ...
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Second Curve's Brown on US Retail Banks
Washington Post
22, 2012 - March 22 (Bloomberg) -- Thomas Brown, chief executive officer at Second Curve Capital LLC and a Bloomberg contributing editor, talks about the outlook for US retail banking discussed at a meeting of the Consumer Bankers Association.
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UK's five riskiest retail spots revealed
Reuters
By Brenda Goh | LONDON, March 22 (Reuters) - Property investors should be wary of buying shops in Bradford, Derby and Southampton, according to a survey of UK locations likely to be hit hardest by further retailer failures.
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Italy 4-Year Retail Bonds Draw 7.3 Billion Euros in Sale
Bloomberg
Italy sold 7.29 billion euros ($9.6 billion) of a new four-year bond to retail investors, a result that Deputy Finance Minister Vittorio Grilli said showed renewed confidence in the nation's debt. The inflation-linked securities were on sale from March ...
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JD Power sees March new-vehicle retail sales up 7%
MarketWatch
By Tess Stynes JD Power & Associates expects March new-vehicle retail sales to rise 7%, paving the way for a particularly strong end to the first quarter. The provider of marketing-information services projects retail light-vehicles sales will top 1 ...
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Schultz Transforming Starbucks Into Supermarket Supplier: Retail
San Francisco Chronicle
Starbucks is "no longer just a retail store business," said Juhan, who rates the shares the equivalent of a buy. Starbucks has slowly yet steadily been moving into grocery stores since 1995, when it began selling ice cream in such flavors as java chip ...
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Gas retailers to pay $2M in fines for price fixing
CTV.ca
The agency said it found evidence that the retailers or their representatives called each other to discuss the price they would charge for gasoline. Specifically, the companies agreed to co-ordinate their response to price changes initiated by ...
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CTV.ca
USD/CAD: Poor Retail Sales, Sentiment Sap CAD's Strength, CPI Up Next
Action Forex
The negative print for Canada's retail sales today undermines the fundamental case for the Canadian Dollar. Headline retail sales rose 0.5%, when they were forecast to jump 1.8%, while core sales FELL 0.5%, or were -0.5% compared to the forecast 0.5%.
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Market overview: UK retail sales fall, Ireland back in recession
IFA Magazine
1630: The volume of retail sales in the UK fell by 0.8% month-on-month during February, well below expectations, the ONS revealed today. Meanwhile, the government was forced to defend its decision to end tax allowances for pensioners, after HMRC said ...
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Single Touch Names ScriptRelief Mobile Healthcare and Retail Pharmacy Channel ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Having delivered more than 300 million messages on behalf of our retail partners and clients, Single Touch established itself as a market leader in the mobile healthcare space, therefore, we are the right partner to help ScriptRelief address this ...
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LightSpeed's 12th Certification Camp will introduce LightSpeed for iPad to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LightSpeed, makers of award-winning retail technology for the iGeneration, kicks off its 12th Certification Camp in Dallas, Texas, today as more than 90 resellers from around the world gather in the largest Cert Camp in the company's history.
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REI Hires Industry Veteran Eric Artz as CFO
MarketWatch (press release)
SEATTLE, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- National outdoor retail cooperative, REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.), announced today that retail and outdoor industry veteran Eric Artz will join the company as chief financial officer in May.
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Local retail, foodservice thriving
The Packer
"We're pleased with both foodservice and retail," Crafts said. "More of our business is foodservice, but they're doing equally well." Some of Coosemans' big sellers, like avocados, hydroponic lettuce, fingerling potatoes and radicchio, ...
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Marcus & Millichap names Mark Ruble senior director of National Retail Group
AZ Central.com
22, 2012 08:13 AM Mark J. Ruble has been named senior director of the National Retail Group at Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services in Phoenix. He joined the company in 2004 as a sales intern and became an agent in June 2006.
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Kingfisher has do-it-yourself plan to boost profit
MarketWatch
The company, which owns the B&Q chain of do-it-yourself stores in the UK and Castorama and Brico Depot on the continent, laid out the next phase of its improvement program Thursday, targeting GBP300 million of retail profit growth in the next five ...
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Photo gallery: Retail store in Greensboro with a social conscience
Greensboro News & Record
GREENSBORO — It looked like a pizza party and movie night in a downtown clothing store. The movie was a documentary about the human rights crisis in North Korea. It was shown by volunteers from LiNK, the relief organization that aids North Korean ...
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Germany mulls aid for staff of insolvent retailer
Reuters
BERLIN, March 22 (Reuters) - Germany's 16 states are discussing ways to help the staff of insolvent drugstore chain Schlecker who face redundancy as the retailer is due to close more than 2000 stores. Unlisted Schlecker, which competes with ...
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