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Fresh hurdle hits reforms in retail
Times of India
NEW DELHI: The UPA government's efforts to open up the multi-brand retail sector to foreign companies such as Wal-Mart faced a fresh roadblock on Sunday as Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and top Left leaders shot off a letter to Prime ...
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Retail woes and restructure hurt Goodman Fielder profit
Herald Sun
The depressed retail market, particularly in New Zealand, means Goodman Fielder expects impairment charges against goodwill for its baking business and home ingredients business across the Tasman to cost it $110 million. Full Digital Access - $10 for ...
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SP, Left & JD(S) write to PM against retail FDI
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: The Samajwadi Party, Left parties and JD(S) asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not to allow retail trade to be opened up to foreign direct investment (FDI) any further in the "absence of a wide-ranging consensus" on it. "Political parties ...
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Spain Scraps Siesta as Stores Stay Open to Spur Spending: Retail
Bloomberg
To stimulate spending after a 23 percent drop in retail sales since 2007, the euro region's fourth-largest economy this month approved measures that allow shops of more than 300 square meters (3229 square feet) to open for 25 percent longer a week.
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Grocery wars put pressure on Woolworths sales
Herald Sun
Chief executive Grant O'Brien said the tough retail conditions were exacerbated by significant price cuts due to Woolworths' price war with Australia's other supermarket giant Coles. "Importantly these results have been achieved at a time when our ...
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Woolies overcomes tough retail conditions to lift sales: Midday roundup
SmartCompany.com.au
Supermarket giant Woolworths' full-year sales figures show a strong fourth quarter overcoming the current retail slump. The Woolworths group reported sales of $56.7 billion in the 2012 financial year, an increase of 4.7% on the previous year. The key ...
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Punctured sales for bike retailers
SmartCompany.com.au
Motivated by green consciousness and health concerns, more people seem to be riding to work than ever before; thousands of MAMILs (middle-aged men in lycra) work up a sweat on expensive road bikes every weekend; and inner city hipsters on "fixies" ...
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SP, Left, JD(S) ask PM not to open up retail trade to FDI
Oneindia
SP, JD(S), CPI-M oppose FDI in retail. New Delhi, Jul 22: Samajwadi Party, Left parties and JD(S) today shot off a joint letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking the government not to open up retail trade to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) any ...
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SP punctures UPA hopes, joins hands with Left against FDI in retail
Indian Express
Even before the UPA could pat itself in the back over the broad consensus forged over Pranab Mukherjee resulting in his thumping win today, the Samajwadi Party dealt the government a blow over FDI in retail. In a letter sent jointly with the Left ...
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Retail split may come early for an eager Lloyds
CITY A.M.
LLOYDS could announce this week that it plans to accelerate the ring-fence separation of its retail banking arm from its investment banking operations, it was reported yesterday. The bank already has fewer investment operations than the UK's other ...
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Parties oppose FDI in multi-brand retail
indiablooms
New Delhi, July 22 (IBNS) Several political parties, including the CPI-M and Samajwadi Party of Mulayam Singh Yadav, have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh requesting him to not allow Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail.
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Funtastic times as Gerry Harvey backs toy company: "He was keen to get as ...
SmartCompany.com.au
Retail giant Gerry Harvey has thrown his support behind toy company Funtastic by sub-underwriting the $4.4 million retail component of its capital raising after retail investors showed little interest in the toy wholesaler. Three weeks after Funtastic ...
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Tobacco retail display ban starts today
3News NZ
However, prosecution will be reserved for retailers who choose to flout the law, with District Health Board smoke-free officers initially focusing on educating those who may unwittingly be in breach. The Government is also considering plain-packaging ...
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New pay methods 'challenge banks'
MSN Money UK
The British Retail Consortium (BRC), which compiled the research, said people's willingness to use new technologies showed that the existing charging regime has to change, which would ultimately drive down costs for customers as retailers' own costs ...
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Data underlines Australia's two-speed economy: Western Australia and the rest
SmartCompany.com.au
Australia's booming mining state has again been ranked as the top-performing economy by CommSec, which assesses eight criteria – economic growth; retail spending; equipment investment; unemployment; construction work done; population growth; ...
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