Monday, August 13, 2012

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6 global retailers in India queue
Hindustan Times
The government is learnt to be readying plans to ease FDI norms for single-brand retail including the condition that global firms will have to source 30% of their merchandise requirements from local small firms and artisans. Globally, single-brand ...
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Six global retailers apply for 51% control of India ops
Business Standard
Six global retailers apply for 51% control of India ops. Many of these retailers are already present in India via licensing and joint-venture partnerships with Indian retailers. Press Trust of India / Mumbai Aug 13, 2012, 15:00 IST ...
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Olympics provide retail boost – despite slow start
The Guardian
Barely had the Olympic cauldron been put out and the last athletes packed their bags than shops started counting the sales made over the past fortnight. The London Olympics looks to have given British retailers a slight boost, despite a Team GB-style ...
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The Guardian
Retail Gasoline Prices at 11-Week High
Convenience Store Decisions
Retail fuel prices are also reacting to surging crude prices, especially Brent crude futures which trade on the ICE Futures platform and serve as an international price marker for crude oil. Amid the bottleneck of crude oil at the Cushing hub that has ...
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Healthy retail response to Seven's raising
The Australian
Private equity group shareholder Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, which holds an 11.8 per cent interest, committed to its full entitlement under the retail offer, having elected out of the institutional offer in July to buy more time to raise the capital and ...
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Over 360 retailers agreed to freeze prices of 1600 commodities
gulfnews.com
Dr Hashim Al Nuaimi, director of the Consumer Protection Department at the Ministry of Economy (MoE), said over 360 retailers across UAE have agreed to freeze prices of selected commodities and have accepted to bear the costs involved in the effort ...
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Thieves pinch $12 million from retail giant
Herald Sun
Australian Retail Association figures show shoplifting cost retailers $7.5 billion last year -- the equivalent of about 3 per cent of retail sales. The loss from theft increased from $6.8 billion in 2010 and $5 billion in 2009. Myer in March said it ...
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BP sells California refinery, regional retail assets to Tesoro Corp. for $2.5 ...
Washington Post
Tesoro is paying $2.5 billion cash for the refinery, pipelines, storage terminals, marine terminals and about 800 Arco-branded retail outlets in southern California, Arizona and Nevada, the British company said. BP is also selling the Arco brand rights ...
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5 Retail Bloodbath Earnings Trades
Investorplace.com
The problem for retailers like Dick's (NYSE:DKS) is discretionary income. Consumers simply don't have extra money to spend. They can barely afford the essentials. In the last year shares have gained more than 60%. At current prices shares trade for 20 ...
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Retail sales figures likely to reveal slowdown
Bizcommunity.com
Figures due on Wednesday, 15 August 2012, are expected to show that growth in retail sales slowed in June, reflecting weak consumer confidence and the fragile state of the domestic economy. That would be worrying news as consumer spending is the ...
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US game retail navigates longest console generation
Gamasutra
In many ways, the decline of video game retail in the U.S. resembles the pause that appears to happen right before a new generation of video games is launched. Not only are overall revenues down according to the latest NPD Group market estimates, but ...
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Gamasutra
We maintained margins despite discounts in Q1: Pantaloon Retail
NDTV
Pantaloon Retail (India) has posted a 78.57 per cent decline in consolidated net profit at Rs 21.16 crore for the fourth quarter ended June 30. Rakesh Biyani, Joint Managing Director, Pantaloon Retail told NDTV Profit that their volumes are pressure ...
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Everything that's wrong with retail summed up in one question
Retail Customer Experience (blog)
During my presentation last week at the Retail Customer Experience Executive Summit, a question was asked that sums up everything that's wrong with retail today. Care to guess what that question was? The question was, "What about the bargain hunter?" ...
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Merchant Link Names Ben Jared Director of Business Development, Retail
Sacramento Bee
13, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Merchant Link, a leading provider of payment gateway and data security solutions, is pleased to announce the addition of Ben Jared as Director of Business Development for its retail vertical. Previously Ben served as Area ...
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Wine Goes Cheap in Europe as Web Guru Turns Sommelier: Retail
San Francisco Chronicle
Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Jacques-Antoine Granjon has made millions selling high fashion at cut-rate prices online. Now, the French entrepreneur with a rock-star-like image, who recently appeared with Iggy Pop in a promotional video, wants to do the same ...
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Lew fears loss of Country Road shares with Witchery takeover
The Age
Mr Lew's Australian Retail Investments (ARI), which owns almost 12 per cent of Country Road, has made a series of attacks on the fashion retailer's management in a letter sent to company secretary David Thomas last Tuesday. ARI last night backed away ...
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The Age
Specialty food retailers thrive, expand in Austin
Austin Business Journal (blog)
Specialty food shops are part of an $8 billion industry that has been listed among the top five hot retail sectors for startups. Such stores will see an estimated revenue growth rate of 2.3 percent this year, according to a report by IBISWorld, an ...
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ScanSource Honored by Retail Solutions Providers Association (RSPA) for Third ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
ScanSource® POS & Barcoding, the leading international value-added distributor of automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) and point-of-sale (POS) solutions and services and sales unit of ScanSource, Inc., (NASDAQ: SCSC), has received the 2012 ...
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The Big Box Electronics Retailer That's Actually (No Joke) Growing
TIME
One commonly accepted assumption in modern retail is that the death of the big box store is nearing. As shoppers become increasingly comfortable using tablets, smartphones, and other gadgets to purchase, among other things, tablets, smartphones, and ...
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TIME
Muss Development Signs Two New Retail Tenants at 345 Adams Street
Commercial Observer
Muss Development bought the space—the first two floors—in 2007 and is undertaking a multi-million dollar capital campaign to convert the floors for retail use. A total of 35785 square feet of retail space there was involved in the project, heralded ...
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