Friday, May 11, 2012

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UK retail chain Costcutter to open stores in Pakistan -
Associated Press of Pakistan
The company that now owns 1550 stores across the United Kingdom plans to enter the Pakistani market after the Ramazan and would gradually expand these to Islamabad and other cities, by bringing in cheap retail business into the country, Simkins told ...
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Associated Press of Pakistan
Dick blasts foreign retailers
Herald Sun
ENTREPRENEUR Dick Smith says foreign retail giants Aldi and Costco are pushing local producers out of business with "capitalist" business models. Mr Smith says competition pressure from foreign-owned stores makes it harder for local producers to sell ...
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Smile Train Announces Partnership With Mars Retail Group
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Just in time for Mother's Day, Smile Train today announced a partnership with Mars Retail Group (MRG), a division of Mars, Incorporated. This multi-year effort will support surgeries for children in the ...
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Top 125 Global Licensors Account for Billions in Retail Sales
MarketWatch (press release)
Global ( www.licensemag.com ) today announced its annual Top 125 Global Licensors list, which ranks the world's largest owners of intellectual property by annual retail sales. Companies on the list accounted for more than $192 billion in retail sales ...
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Glenwood's retail sales climb above 10 percent in March
Glenwood Springs Post Independent
According to the city's March sales tax report, released this week, spending on retail goods within Glenwood Springs city limits was up nearly 10.5 percent over the same month last year. The city collected $1201622 in sales taxes during March of this ...
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Shopping the Best Retail REITs
DailyFinance
By Amanda Alix, The Motley Fool Like many public companies, retail real estate investment trusts have been turning in quarterly reports over the past couple of weeks, and overall, I've liked what I've seen. Here are four that have been experiencing ...
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Retail Rant: Death To Discounts
Transworld Business
By Mike Lewis By Dennis Nazari, Owner, Salty Peaks, Salt Lake City, Utah Since the dawn of retail, there have been discounts. These are spawned for many different reasons: from moving slow sellers or overstock situations, to taking care of team riders ...
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Transworld Business
US April Video Game Retail Sales Tumble 32%
Forbes
US retail sales of of new video game hardware and software tumbled 32% to $630.4 million in April from a year ago, according to market research firm NPD. The slide includes a 32% drop in hardware sales, a 42% drop in software sales and a 1% rise in ...
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Forbes
Clearwire recharges Clear-branded retail biz
FierceWireless
NEW ORLEANS--WiMAX carrier Clearwire (NASDAQ:CLWR) used the CTIA Wireless show here to make one point very clear: It's staying in the retail business and will continue to push that effort for the foreseeable future. The news is noteworthy considering ...
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Anthony & Sylvan Pools Announces Grand Opening of Online Retail Store
MarketWatch (press release)
DOYLESTOWN, Pa., May 11, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Anthony & Sylvan Pool Corporation, a leader in the swimming pool industry, announces the grand opening of its first online retail store. The store will enable thousands of Anthony & Sylvan customers ...
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Earnings Season Shifts to Retail
TheStreet.com
This thesis certainly matches the performances of the retailers that I will be profiling today. On May 3, the Institute for Supply Management released its Non-Manufacturing ISM Report on Business. The index came in at 53.5 in April, ...
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TheStreet.com
Plazacorp to spend $12.2 million on retail property development in 2012
Daily Commercial News
Plazacorp Retail Properties Ltd. of Fredericton reported a year-over-year increase in both revenues and funds from operations Wednesday, recording $14.643 million in revenues for the three months ending March 31. Revenues for the same period in 2011 ...
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Bed Bath, Cost Plus Deal is a Surprise, But a Pleasant One
Retail Traffic
Few people had seen it coming, but Bed Bath & Beyond's decision to acquire Cost Plus Inc. might prove a boon for both the retailers involved and the retail real estate industry. On May 9, the Union, NJ-based Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. announced it entered ...
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Retail Traffic
Early Glance: Specialty Retail companies
Boston.com
NEW YORK—Shares of some top specialty retail companies are mixed at 10 am: Autozone Inc. rose $.25 or .1 percent, to $385.98. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. rose $2.22 or 3.2 percent, to $70.97. Best Buy fell $.31 or 1.6 percent, to $19.63.
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Kelly's still loving life in the top job at Westpac
Sydney Morning Herald
Next month, the banking wunderkind Brian Hartzer steps into the role of running all of Westpac's Australian retail-focused businesses. This, in effect, replicates Hartzer's position when he was at ANZ three years ago. Hartzer had been the preferred ...
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