Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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Mahindra Retail launches maternity apparel store in Gurgaon
Hindu Business Line
Mahindra Retail, a part of Mahindra Group, has entered into a franchise agreement with maternity apparel player, Destination Maternity Corporation to open retail their products in India. The first Destination Maternity store has come up in Ambience ...
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Metro Bank To Raise GBP125M, Eyes UK Retail Banking Expansion
Wall Street Journal (India)
By Max Colchester Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LONDON (Dow Jones)--Metro Bank expects to raise GBP125 million of capital by the end of the week, as the UK's newest retail bank continues its quest steal market share from more established lenders.
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South Africa's Retail Sales Decline in First Quarter
Bloomberg
South African retail sales growth was little changed in March and sales declined in the first quarter, damping chances of faster economic expansion in Africa's largest economy this year. Sales rose 6.8 percent from a year earlier compared with a ...
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Fujitsu launches new tool for retail services
Hindu Business Line
IT services provider Fujitsu on Wednesday launched Vendor Collaboration Suite for retail industry that would enable managing all interactions in a retailer-vendor relationship. The solution uses capabilities of retail business features to provide ...
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The Retail Feedback Group Announces Appointment of Brian Numainville as a ...
MarketWatch (press release)
PLAINVIEW, NY, May 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Retail Feedback Group (RFG) today named Brian Numainville a Principal in the firm. Numainville joins RFG after more than 18 years with Nash Finch Company, a Fortune 500 Minnesota-based food distributor ...
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Target's 1Q profits up 1.2 percent
The Associated Press
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO, AP Retail Writer – 2 minutes ago NEW YORK (AP) — Target Corp. reported a 1.2 percent increase in first-quarter profit and raised its earnings forecast for the full year due to strong sales of its food and cheap chic fashions.
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Triad Retail Media and Sam's Club Introduce a New Online Pet Central Experience
MarketWatch (press release)
Greg Murtagh, CEO and founder of Triad Retail Media, said, "Dynamic, interactive and information-rich content centers have become a critical element of the shopper marketing strategy for retailers and brands. With the new Pet Central, Sam's Club has ...
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Technology in retail: retail's two year transformation
The Guardian
The convergence of these will challenge the established idea of 'multi-channel' retail. Online and offline channels are merging and brands have to be present everywhere where their customers are. We've commissioned an extensive piece of research with ...
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The Guardian
Seizing the mobile retail opportunity: a mobile manifesto
The Guardian
The UK's digital communications industry – including mobile operations from retailers, network providers and developers – is worth over £50bn to the UK economy, according to a recent report prepared for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, ...
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The Guardian
The Children's Place Announces Participation in the Morgan Stanley Second ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SECAUCUS, NJ, May 16, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- The Children's Place Retail Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLCE) , the largest pure-play children's specialty apparel retailer in North America, today announced that Jane Elfers, President and Chief ...
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Third Time's The Charm With An Epic Day Of Retail Sales For Diablo III And Max ...
Forbes
This fall, it will be common for multiple huge game releases to flood retail shelves and drive gamers to Best Buy, GameStop, Wal-Mart and other retailers. But for the middle of May, it's a rare occurrence. But that's just what happened with the huge ...
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Forbes
Land Secs says retail rent reviews are 'stuck in neutral'
ShareCast
The retail portfolio total property return was 5.8%, which outperformed its IPD sector benchmark by 2.4 percentage points. Many parts of the retail sector are having a hard time, partly as a result of competition from online competitors, ...
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Retail Week Supply Chain Summit: What are the key issues for retailers?
Retail Week
Sophisticated collaboration with suppliers, the challenges of omnichannel consumer behaviour and rising scale and complexity of operations were recurring issues discussed at this years Retail Week Supply Chain Summit. Andy Banks, manager of supply ...
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Samsung Announces Retail Availability of its First Wi-Fi Capable SMART ...
MarketWatch (press release)
RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ, May 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Samsung Electronics America Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, announced the nationwide retail availability of two highly-anticipated full HD camcorders, ...
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Bharti Retail Observes 'Earth Month'
Orissadiary.com
New Delhi: As part of its commitment towards environmental sustainability, easyday and easyday Market stores, owned and operated by Bharti Retail, are currently celebrating "Earth Month" with special sale of eco-friendly products, across India from 22 ...
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Land Securities hit by weak office demand
Financial Times
By Duncan Robinson Lower than expected demand for office space in London and weak performance in its retail division weighed on Land Securities' annual results. Pre-tax profits at the UK's largest real estate investment trust by market value fell 58 ...
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Monthly retail sales bounce in March
BusinessLIVE
Measured in real terms (constant 2008 prices), seasonally adjusted retail trade sales increased by 2.1% in March 2012 compared with February 2012. This followed monthly declines of 2.4% in February and 0.9% in January 2012, Statistics SA reported on ...
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Retail Anywhere POS for NetSuite Gaining Traction with Multi-Channel Retailers
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Retail Anywhere, a leading provider of point of sale and cloud-based retail management systems for midsize retailers, today announced the wide adoption of Retail Anywhere POS with integration to NetSuite. The integrated solution was announced at this ...
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Kim Williams of The Polka Dot Press wins second place in national retail contest
Tallahassee.com
Kim Williams, owner of The Polka Dot Press LLC on Market Street in Tallahassee, won second place in the National Retail Federation's "This is Retail" video competition. Her cash prize was $15000. / Special to Business Matters By Dave Hodges Kim ...
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Howard Davis joins Sakar International as Vice President of Retail Development
MarketWatch (press release)
EDISON, NJ, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Consumer electronics manufacturer Sakar International Inc. is proud to announce that Howie Davis has joined the company as Vice President of Retail Development. In the newly created role, ...
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Big-box retailers jump on green bandwagon, sort of
Winnipeg Free Press
As well, the Scandinavian retailer hopes to eventually power all its stores, warehouses, offices and factories with 100 per cent renewable energy, and make its buildings 25 per cent more efficient compared to 2005. IKEA is not the only big-box business ...
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Visesh Infotech - Updates
Moneycontrol.com
Visesh Infotecnics Ltd has informed BSE that the Company has entered into a new venture in the field of Retail VAS & bill payments. The Company has launched B2B2C based multi purpose transaction platform. The platform is used by retailers for Providing ...
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U.S. Ice Cream & Frozen Desserts Retail Sales to Reach $12.9 Billion by 2016
SYS-CON Media (press release)
ROCKVILLE, MD -- (Marketwire) -- 05/16/12 -- MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of the new report "Ice Cream and Frozen Desserts in the US: Markets and Opportunities in Retail and Foodservice; 7th Edition" to their collection of Food ...
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National taskforce issues ultimatum to foreigners in retail business
GhanaWeb
A National Taskforce inaugurated by the Ministry of Trade and Industry to monitor activities in the retail business, has issued an ultimatum to foreigners in retail businesses to relocate or face the law. Mr Kofi Larbi, Chairman of the Taskforce, ...
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TABLE-S.Africa March retail sales at 6.8 pct y/y
Reuters
JOHANNESBURG, May 16 (Reuters) - Growth in South Africa's retail sales was at 6.8 percent on a year-on-year basis at constant prices in March, compared with a revised 6.7 percent in February, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday.
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Retail Sales Continue To Be Strong
Seeking Alpha
But to judge from this chart of US retail sales, the revolving Eurozone crises have had no discernible impact on the US economy. By just about any measure (ex-autos, ex-building materials, and/or ex-gas stations), US retail sales are rising at a ...
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STAR Releases its 2012 XML/ DTS Repository and Transport Guidelines
MarketWatch (press release)
MCLEAN, Va., May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail (STAR), the global information technology (IT) standards body for retail automotive and related industries, has released a new major version of its ...
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Sabona of London Offers New, Unique Store Displays for Retailers
Houston Chronicle
Sabona of London, the premier manufacturer and marketer of copper and magnetic jewelry, has launched a brand new line of in-store retail displays as part of their marketing support program for retail partners. The displays are designed to maximize ...
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