Thursday, May 10, 2012

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Retail expansion: Spar, Max to go their separate ways
Hindu Business Line
Retail chain Spar International and Max Hypermarket India Pvt Ltd today announced their intention to pursue separate strategies to grow their existing retail presence in India. Spar and Max Hypermarkets had tied up to launch 13 Spar hypermarkets in ...
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British greeting card retail chain Clinton Cards goes into administration
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Clinton Cards yesterday went into administration, threatening 750 stores and 8000 jobs as the British greeting card retail chain became the latest casualty on the UK high street. The collapse is the biggest of a retailer since the iconic high street ...
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Australia's Centro Retail agrees to A$200 million settlement
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Shopping mall owner Centro Retail Australia and its former auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have settled a long-standing class action with its discontented shareholders in the federal court of Melbourne by agreeing to pay a total sum of A$200 ...
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RETAIL NEWS: Investing in the future
Business Day
UD TRUCKS Magnis Pretoria, a name synonymous with trucking since 1968, is investing R40m in a new state-of-the-art facility in Pretoria East. The dealership is expected to be completed near year's end. The group, which forms part of Imperial Holdings ...
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Aditya Birla Retail to open 6 hypermarkets this year
Hindu Business Line
Aditya Biral Retial Ltd plans to open six hypermarkets under its brand More Megastore during the present financial year with about Rs 90 crore. The new stores would come up in Bangalore, Delhi and Hyderabad, Mr Russell Berman, Chief Executive Officer, ...
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Yates St. clothing retailer tests real estate market
Victoria Times Colonist
By Darron Kloster, Times Colonist May 10, 2012 4:01 AM Philip Nyren has put his Yates Street properties up for sale, but says he's only testing the real estate market and his high-end fashion retail store is still a going concern.
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comScore Reports $44.3 Billion in Q1 2012 U.S. Retail E-Commerce Spending, Up ...
Sacramento Bee
By comScore RESTON, Va., May 9, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its Q1 2012 US retail e-commerce sales estimates, showing that online retail spending reached $44.3 billion ...
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Retail timeline: 2012 high street casualties
The Guardian
Sixty stores and 1000 jobs saved when Kuwaiti retailer Alshaya buys part of the business. 16 January: Retro gift shop Past Times makes history. About 100 shops and 1000 staff. 16 January: Budget fashion chain Peacocks calls in the administrators and ...
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HP RP7 Retail System review: First look
IT PRO
One of the more interesting retail products unveiled at the HP Global Influencer Summit was the RP7 – a touch screen system that can be used behind the counter or be mounted on a wall. The display is available in two sizes - 15in or 17in.
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B2C retail sector increase rate slows
China Daily
By Gao Yuan (chinadaily.com.cn) The turnover of China's online business-to-customer retail sector totalled 81.87 billion yuan ($13 billion) in the first quarter of this year, while the increase rate hit a record low, an industry report shows.
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Supergroup: What the analysts say
Retail Week
Brokers and analysts remain cautious about the fashion retailer following flat like-for-like sales and an accounting "arithmetic error", but hope new maangement will instil confidence. "Supergroup has reported a 24.7% rise in retail sales for the final ...
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EA: Consumers afraid to cut out retail following PSN hack
Computerandvideogames.com
By Tamoor Hussain for computerandvideogames.com EA's chief operating officer Peter Moore has said the majority of the company's consumers haven't taken to purchasing digital content and as a result retail remains very important.
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Retail Mapping: Leveraging the Power of Location Intelligence for a ...
DirectionsMag.com (press release)
Location intelligence can enhance sales, marketing and distribution functions in launching a telecommunications brand and establishing retail sites. Mapping of retail outlets provides information about prospective dealer outlets that will establish a ...
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Sev Shak: A Designer's Vision for Retail
Patch.com
"But my calling was retail," said Ngamariju, who just opened retail store Sev Shack toward the back of Old Avon Village. "I really took a plunge, a big dilution in where I was going. My heart is really fashion design, but retail is really a slash ...
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Brookstone Announces $2.1 million EBITDA Improvement For First Quarter 2012 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Net sales in the Retail channel increased $3.7 million, or 5.9%, to $67.5 million and same-store sales increased 7.9% as compared to the first quarter of 2011. These increases were due in part to improved selling efforts at our retail stores, ...
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Sterling kept range bound as BRC retail sales monitor drops
Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade Review
Sterling has been kept fairly range bound against the majority of currencies after the British Retail Consortium retail sales monitor dropped to -3.3%. But it has hit fresh highs of 1.2460 against the euro today as fears that Greece could soon leave ...
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Alliance Data Announces New Multi-year Agreement With Blue Nile, The Leading ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Alliance Data is uniquely positioned to support Blue Nile's legacy of creating an engaging, rewarding customer experience that contributes to repeat purchases and increased shopper loyalty," said Melisa Miller, president of Retail Services for Alliance ...
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Travel Retail division buoys Autogrill Group in challenging first quarter
MoodieReport
Travel Retail, on the other hand, continued to enjoy double-digit growth, with revenues up +10.1% and Ebitda up +17.6%. In all the countries where it operates, the sector outperformed the growth in air traffic. "The signals we saw in the first quarter ...
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Capital Club Dubai presents seminar by retail and commercial expert - Kate ...
AME Info
This applies across all sectorsand industries; finance, legal, retail, energy and property -it's the customer which is atthe heart of success." She went on to highlight a number of pitfalls that many organisations find themselves faced with, ...
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