Wednesday, August 01, 2012

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Retail realty market looks promising: Survey
Zee News
Mumbai: Despite negative sentiment, retail real estate market appears to be promising as leading brands and retailers are pursuing expansion plans aggressively, says commercial real estate services firm CBRE. According to a survey 'India Retail Market ...
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Valero may split off retail operations
Houston Chronicle
Valero, which has refineries and gasoline stations in the Houston area, is reviewing options for spinning off the retail segment, including distributing shares in a new company to its current shareholders. In the wake of a retail spinoff, Valero would ...
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Scots retail sales in spring dip
BBC News
Retail sales in Scotland trailed the performance in the rest of the UK over the past year, new figures show. The overall value of goods sold by Scottish retailers fell by 0.6% between April and June compared with a 0.3% decline in the UK as a whole ...
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Next defies retail gloom with sales rise
Reuters
H1 total sales up 4.5 pct vs guidance up 1-4 pct. * H1 retail sales up 0.2 pct vs guidance flat to down 3 pct. * H1 Directory sales up 13.3 pct vs guidance up 9-12 pct. * Ups FY pretax profit guidance to 575-620 mln stg. LONDON, August 1 (Reuters ...
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UK retail sales growth eases in year to July: CBI survey
Myiris.com
High street retailers in UK reported a third consecutive month of rising year on year sales and orders in July. However, growth slowed to a greater extent than had been expected, the CBI said. In the CBI`s latest monthly Distributive Trades Survey ...
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Retail Banking- The Leaders Summit
India PRwire (press release)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, July 31, 2012 /India PRwire/ -- In the current business environment, banks are beginning to improvise and expand their current mode of operations to ensure profitability and maintain customer relationship. So its time to measure ...
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Next defies retail gloom with sales rise
Reuters UK
LONDON, August 1 (Reuters) - Next, Britain's second-biggest clothing retailer, beat its target for first-half sales growth, helped by a particularly robust performance from its Directory home shopping business as the wet summer weather encouraged ...
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Manatee retailers hope to cash in on sales tax holiday
Bradenton Herald
"It boosts retail in Florida as a whole, but it's very strong for apparel." During the three-day holiday, the state waves sales tax on clothing and shoes priced $75 and lower, and school supplies under $15 each. The Florida Retail Federation has ...
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Saudi retail market thrives despite fierce competition
MENAFN.COM
(MENAFN - Arab News) Competition in the retail industry in Saudi Arabia is very high. Though to most Saudi businessmen, the retail industry is the safest, it is different with Raza Beig, CEO of Splash. Super brand Splash, Middle East's largest fashion ...
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Toshiba Tec and IBM Announce Initial Closing of Acquisition of IBM's Retail ...
MarketWatch (press release)
1, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Toshiba Tec Corporation and IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced the initial closing of the transaction in which Toshiba Tec will acquire IBM's Retail Store Solutions (RSS) business. The agreement was announced on April ...
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Jupiter's Funds Under Management Beat Estimates on Retail Flows
Bloomberg
Record low interest rates and quantitative easing have reduced savings rates in the U.K. so retail customers are looking to take more risk as they seek to boost their assets. The 265 million pounds of inflows from individual customers in the first half ...
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Online sales grow in June
Herald Sun
The National Australia Bank Online Retail Sales Index shows online spending in June was up 19 per cent from June 2011, and up 14 per cent from May. But the growth rate for online retail sales is significantly lower than in the previous year. June 2011 ...
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Retail sales see modest rebound during July
Viet Nam News
Customers shop at a Fivimart Supermarket on Doi Can Street in the capital city. Retail sales value in the first seven months of the year reached VND1,327 trillion (US$63.2 billion). — VNA/VNS Photo Ngoc Tiep ...
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Retail Analyst (Charity Shop)
Third Sector
With a small existing retail operation, which operates in partnership with local government, this national charity is looking for a charity shop specialist to research the viability of expanding its operations. The successful applicant will be expected ...
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Business: Gloucestershire LEP launches newsletter for retailers
eGov monitor
The monthly Retail Pathfinder Newsletter will be filled with news from around Gloucestershire and the UK, information on retail and town centre support and legislative changes taking place, with the aim of sharing retail news and successes. Earlier ...
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Tanzania cuts retail fuel prices on cheaper crude
Reuters Africa
DAR ES SALAAM Aug 1 (Reuters) - Tanzania lowered retail fuel prices on Wednesday following a drop in the price of crude oil in global markets, raising hopes of further declines in the country's inflation rate. Food and fuel prices are the main drivers ...
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Digital Presence vs Digital Bombardment
Business Review Europe
Recent figures report that global e-commerce sales are growing at more than 19 percent a year and worldwide, retail web sales will reach nearly $1 trillion by 2013. In fact according to IMRG & Capgemini's latest e-Retail Sales Index, UK consumers spent ...
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Coach Droops as Kors Grabs Handbag Customers in Slowdown: Retail
Bloomberg
Coach Droops as Kors Grabs Handbag Customers in Slowdown: Retail. By Cotten Timberlake - 2012-08-01T04:00:01Z. Coach Inc. (COH) Chief Executive Officer Lew Frankfort has beaten Wall Street sales estimates in 85 percent of all quarters for the past ...
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Marathon Petroleum Corp. Committed to Retail
CSPnet.com
FINDLAY, Ohio -- The second quarter ended June 30 marked Marathon Petroleum Corp.'s one-year anniversary as a standalone public company. And that company remains committed to retail. During MPC's quarterly conference call, Garry L. Peiffer, ...
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Comment: Should Next win gold for multichannel retailing?
Retail Week
Next has cleverly integrated its Directory catalogue into the online arm of Next Retail. Next Directory sales will top £1.2bn this year, versus nearly £2.2bn in Next Retail, but Directory is even more profitable than Next Retail, albeit the two ...
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Retail Week
S Africa: Topshop in for the kill
Financial Times (blog)
The partnership will focus mainly on Topshop's own outlets, kicking off with a 950 square meter flagship store in Johannesburg, to be launched in November at Sandton City, a landmark retail and leisure complex. A second store is billed for Durban ...
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Fashion sales on wheels inspired by food trucks
The Detroit News
Julia Hutton stands inside her custom trailer Tuesday in Phoenix. Hutton owns ExTreme ReTrailers, which designs custom trailers to look like mini-stores on wheels. Mobile retail stores are hawking vintage accessories, shoes and denim in their haute wheels.
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Olympics Hurt London Store Sales as Shoppers Stay Away From City
Bloomberg
The Olympic Games is reducing sales for central London retailers as shoppers and tourists heed advice to avoid the city, according to the chief executive officer of Next Plc. (NXT). "The effect is definitely negative" in terms of sales, Simon Wolfson ...
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