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Brazil Retail Sales Lose Momentum, Slump In February
Wall Street Journal
By Jeff Fick RIO DE JANEIRO (Dow Jones)--Brazilian retailers registered a retreat in sales volumes in February, ending a three-month string of robust growth as consumers benefited from lower interest rates and higher wages. Retail sales in February ...
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Retail vacancies rise, but city's heart still beats strongly
Sydney Morning Herald
Photo: Andrew Quilty DESPITE a small rise in vacancies, Melbourne CBD remains a strongly performing retail market, the latest CBRE survey shows. Vacancy rose by 0.64 percentage points across the city's retail core in the first quarter, but Melbourne's ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Brazilian Retail Sales Decline for First Time in Six Months
Bloomberg
Brazil's February retail sales fell for the first time in six months, signaling a slower recovery and reinforcing the central bank's strategy of cutting rates further. Sales declined 0.5 percent, down from a revised increase of 3.3 percent a month ...
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JP Morgan Retail Operations Get a Big Boost From Mortgages
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By David Benoit The most profitable unit for JP Morgan was the bank's retail financial services unit, a stark change from last year's first quarter when it was the bank's weakest unit. The retail unit, home to Chase, had a 40% jump in revenue from the ...
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China's retail sales up 14.8% in Q1
China Daily
BEIJING - China's retail sales grew 14.8 percent year on year to 4.9319 trillion yuan ($783.03 billion) in the first quarter of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics said Friday. After adjusting for inflation, the real growth rate came in at ...
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China Daily
JPMorgan 1Q Profit Beats Street on Retail Sales
Fox Business
By Jennifer Booton JPMorgan Chase (JPM) revealed stronger-than-expected first-quarter earnings on improvements in its retail financial services business, leading the company to lift its dividend and approve a new multi-billion-dollar stock buyback.
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Cole Real Estate Investments Acquires Greenway Commons Retail Power Center in ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) April 13, 2012 Cole Real Estate Investments (Cole), one of the nation's leading investors in high-quality, income-producing retail, office and industrial real estate assets, announced the acquisition of Greenway Commons, ...
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Retail Sector Remains Competitive
AllAfrica.com
"It is a very competitive sector as all the large retail players are present in Namibia and each one is trying to increase their market share. Wal-Mart will also enter the Namibian market and is expected to be a significant player," said Feris.
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Retail Food Prices Were Higher in the First Quarter
Wisconsin Ag Connection
"The US Department of Agriculture recently reported that consumers saw some temporary relief as retail meat prices peaked in February. However, the longer view is that it will take time for beef and pork farmers to grow their herds out of the current ...
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Wisconsin Ag Connection
Golfsmith Goes Xtreme With New Experiential Store in Cumberland
MarketWatch (press release)
ATLANTA, April 13, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new, extreme golf retail experience has arrived in Atlanta. The 39000 square foot Golfsmith Xtreme store, located at 2997 Cobb Parkway in Atlanta, is a much more expansive, experiential layout and changes ...
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Game's Iberian business acquired by OpCapita
Retail Week
OpCapita, the new owner of Game's UK stores, has acquired the retailer's Iberian business from administrators PwC. We provide a range of advertising opportunities. By advertising with us, you are guaranteed to reach the industry's key decision makers ...
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Canadian retailers lag US counterparts with in-store use of mobile devices
Winnipeg Free Press
MONTREAL - Canadian retailers are about two years behind their US counterparts when it comes to staff using smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices in stores, suggests a study released Thursday. Consumers are moving faster than Canadian retailers ...
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Co-optex's turnover likely to cross Rs 1000 cr
Hindu Business Line
The organisation's interests are in retail, yarn sale and government schemes (school uniform and sari-dhoti distribution). Co-optex clocked an overall turnover of Rs 904 crore last year (including retail revenue of Rs 198 crore).
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Next Week/US: Retail Sales,Empire,Philly Fed Index,Hsg Data
MNI News
By Kasra Kangarloo WASHINGTON (MNI) - The week ahead will feature some important US economic releases, including a string of housing market data and regional manufacturing surveys, as well as retail sales for March. Retail sales, to be released Monday ...
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More unemployed youths graduate from retail training
Bizcommunity.com
The Unemployed Youth Assistance Programme (UYAP), a joint training initiative between retail training developer and provider Retail Relate, the Wholesale and Retail SETA (W&RSETA) and retailers, saw 178 youngsters graduate from its programme in March ...
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Hershey's World Travel Retail expands Greek duty free locations
MoodieReport
By Mary Jane Pittilla, Brands Editor The Hershey Company has expanded its World Travel Retail programme in Greece with the opening of an island display at Athens International Airport. The island is a kiosk with a 360-degree display of Hershey's ...
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ZBA approves signage, smaller retail spaces for Chelten Plaza
Newsworks.org
By Amy Z. Quinn for NewsWorks The final pieces of the new Chelten Plaza shopping center are falling into place, as developer Pulaski Partners now has city approval for smaller retail tenant spaces and signage for the whole property.
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Nimble Aussie retailers leave old guard flat footed
Reuters Africa
By Victoria Thieberger MELBOURNE, April 13 (Reuters) - Some of Australia's largest retailers could go the way of the dinosaur if they fail to adapt to changing consumer habits as more nimble niche players that are driving innovation snatch sales and ...
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1 Way Technology Will Change Retail Forever
DailyFinance
In today's edition, Austin and Andrew talk about one way technology could change retail forever: executing an omnichannel strategy. For years, retailers have looked at multichannel retailing as the way of the future. But this mentality silos ...
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