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Petrol price rise offers FDI hope to retail chains
Rediff
The recent decision by state-owned oil marketing companies to increase petrol prices steeply has raised hopes of retail chains, which expects the government will now initiate steps to take the long-pending decision on allowing foreign direct investment ...
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MORNING BRIEFING: FX Eyed, Polish Retail to Hint at Rate Moves
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Poland's statistics office will release retail sales and unemployment data for April. Should retail sales surprise on the upside, beating the 9.3% annual growth rate forecast in a Dow Jones Newswires poll, concern of further interest rate increases may ...
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Retail expert talks of need for changes
Canada.com
The retail industry is changing and retailers who hope to survive and flourish must recognize the changes the industry is going through. That was the message Rick Gorman, former regional vice-president Western Canada of the Hudson's Bay Company, ...
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Dixons Retail Inks GBP300M Revolving Credit Facility
Wall Street Journal
LONDON (Dow Jones)--Electrical retailer Dixons Retail PLC (DXNS.LN) Friday said it has agreed a GBP300 million Revolving Credit Facility with its syndicate of lending banks. -Agreement effectively extends the group's current facility, which was due to ...
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Home Retail's green claims are pipe dream
Telegraph.co.uk
By Anna White, City Diary Editor The FTSE100 parent company of Homebase claims corporate responsibility is "part of everything we do". Really? Really? Despite the on-going hosepipe ban in the South East, Homebase has been slashing prices on hosepipes.
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Telegraph.co.uk
Devonshire Mall adds retailers
Windsor Star
The large, regional mall is well on its way to renovations and improvements to 85000 square feet of retail space alone this year with five new stores, Chris Savard said. Expect another 125000 square feet of improvements next year, which include the ...
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Rising on a third-wave retail revolution
Business Spectator
You've probably heard from the naysayers that online shopping is killing the retail industry. I believe that the opposite is true. Online shopping has not only saved the industry and encouraged spending, it has completely revitalised the retail ...
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John Lewis sales boosted by rain, TVs and Jubilee
Reuters UK
The employee-owned retailer has been growing sales even though official data this week said overall UK retail sales fell last month at their fastest rate in more than two years. John Lewis said on Friday its sales increased 11.6 percent year-on-year to ...
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Drive Motor Retail accelerates past £200m sales
Insider Media
By Edward Devlin Bristol-headquartered Drive Motor Retail has accelerated past the £200m turnover mark despite what it called a "difficult" year for the industry. The motor retailer recorded increases in new, fleet and used vehicle sales.
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Friday's ETF Chart To Watch: SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT)
ETF Database
As such, the State Street SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT) is on our radar screen for the day as it may see an increase in trading volumes following this release. Analysts are largely expecting for the sentiment reading to come in unchanged from last month at ...
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Power Up: The Online Retail Entrepreneur's Guide – Security and Fraud
Power Retail
A successful online retail business can only remain profitable so long as it can maintain a thorough level of protection against cyber security threats. The internet has been hailed as one of the biggest catalysts of change in modern society since the ...
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Australia stocks gain, with some retailers strong
MarketWatch
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Australian stocks rose in early Friday trading, with select retail and materials shares among the major gainers, as the S&P/ASX 200 (AU:XJO) rose 0.3% to 4068.90. Newcrest Mining Ltd. (AU:NCM)(US:NCMGF) tracked gains in ...
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Retail to recycle their EURs?
OANDA Forex (blog)
The large Retail sector has been merrily accumulating long positions south of 1.26 for most of this week. They seem very content in EUR ownership, however, their upside objectives are very much limited. With the EUR extending its intraday recovery ...
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OANDA Forex (blog)
Two fuel retailers prepare to grab larger market share
BusinessWorld Online Edition
TWO FUEL retailers aim to drum up more business this year with Total (Philippines) Corp. planning to set up more pump stations while cooking gas supplier Isla LPG Corp. gears up to grow its market share. Total expects to end the year with 200 stations ...
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March retail sales -0. 2%; +1. 7% y/y: ISTAT
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia
(AGI) Rome - Istat data show that cyclical retail sales fell by 0,2% in March. The crude total sales index was 1.7% up on March 2011, with sales of foodstuffs up 3.5% and non-foodstuffs up 0.7%. The Italian National Statistics Institute also reports ...
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New social gifting service, Wrapp, targets friend-to-friend marketing with new app
Retail Times
Top retail brands have signed up to a new app, which encourages social gifting, to drive traffic and sales through their stores and online. Wrapp is a new performance-based marketing channel, which promotes friend-to-friend giving.
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