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US retail sales, ECB in focus
MarketWatch
Wall Street is pointing higher on Thursday after the European Central Bank left its key rate unchanged, as expected, and looked to comments from ECB President Mario Draghi. A number of U.S. retail stores reported increases in same-store sales. Futures ...
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US retailers report hot sales for July
Crain's Detroit Business
NEW YORK (AP) — Hot weather and clearance sales drew Americans into stores in July, giving retailers solid sales gains and helping offset worries about jobs and the economy. Results came in better than expected for many retailers, an encouraging sign ...
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German Bunds Fall Before Euro-Region Retail Sales Report
Bloomberg
German government bonds fell before a report economists say will show euro-region retail sales dropped in June, adding to concern the debt crisis is stifling the economic recovery. Two-year note yields rebounded from a record low. Spanish 10-year ...
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Industry slams Australia Post online retail deal
Sydney Morning Herald
THE retail industry has slammed the deal between a Melbourne online retailer and Australia Post to help sell inexpensive merchandise from overseas into the local market. "This development from Australia Post is uniquely disappointing from an Australian ...
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Double-digit sales growth in Retail & Other biz at adidas
Fibre2fashion.com
In the second quarter of 2012, adidas Group revenues grew 7% on a currency-neutral basis, driven by double-digit sales increases in Retail and Other Businesses. Currency-neutral revenues in Western Europe increased 5%, supported by sustained ...
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Fibre2fashion.com
CBA names Comyn new retail chief
Sydney Morning Herald
In a nod to the increased importance of technology in banking, Commonwealth Bank has appointed an ex-CommSec chief with IT expertise to head its retail banking services division. Matt Comyn will take over as group executive retail banking services from ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Booming China retail market evolving
China Daily
Booming China retail market evolving. Foreign and local companies try different strategies to keep growing. China's retail market is growing exponentially. Accounting for roughly 14 percent of the economy, how retailing progresses is gravely important ...
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China Daily
Morning Briefing: Bank Pekao Earnings, Czech Retail Sales in Focus
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Earnings for the three months to the end of June for the Polish unit of Unicredit Group (UCG.MI), readings for Czech June retail sales and second-quarter employment levels will be in the spotlight Friday. Bank Polska Kasa Opieki SA (PEO.WA), or Pekao ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Retailers cautious after discounts boost July sales
Chicago Tribune
"The consumer has decided to shake off the bad news and is stocking up for back to school," said Madison Riley, managing director of retail consulting firm Kurt Salmon. "All retailers are looking at the second half with caution, so you want to bring in ...
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Exploring retail clusters
DAWN.com
Some of the other retail clusters in Lahore are not as big, but they are not organised differently: Urdu Bazaar for books/stationery, Hall Road for electronics, Hafeez Centre for mobiles. The traditional notion of a market was indeed of a central place ...
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PPR looks to Yoox for online retail help
Financial Times
The agreement marks the first time a luxury goods group has entered into a standalone relationship with a technology company to manage its online retail businesses, and signals the increasing importance of the channel to the industry. François-Henri ...
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Comment: Retailers should use social media to their advantage
Retail Week
Instead of seeing the checkout screen as the end of a purchase cycle, retailers should view the initial customer purchase as a launch pad for further sale referrals. By failing to continue the marketing cycle through checkout and beyond, thousands of ...
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Retail Week
Everest bags retail brand More
Campaign India
Kunal Dhawan, head marketing and branding, Aditya Birla Retail Limited, said, "We believe that Everest will work with us as partners in building our brand equity as they have a strong team." Dhunji S Wadia, president, Everest Brand Solutions, said, "We ...
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Retailers cautious after discounts boost July sales
Reuters
(Reuters) - Retailers reported stronger-than-expected sales for July, but the gains were largely due to discounting and do not necessarily signal vigorous consumer spending for the rest of the year. The sales reports also show signs of troubles are ...
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NZ Telecom's retail boss resigns
Reuters
WELLINGTON Aug 3 (Reuters) - The head of retail operations at New Zealand's dominant telecommunications company resigned on Friday, becoming the second executive to leave the firm this year. Alan Gourdie, chief executive officer of Telecom's retail ...
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Retail building hot in SM
Santa Maria Times
The Santa Maria Planning Commission on Wednesday approved two planned development permits for projects that when developed will add more 108000-square-feet of new retail space to the city. Those projects, along with the 69500-square-foot retail ...
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Comment: Next shows the way with multichannel model
Retail Week
Raising profit forecasts is pretty rare in retail at the moment but that's what fashion group Next did on Wednesday when it unveiled first-half sales. The retailer now expects profits to come in up to £15m higher than previously anticipated, at between ...
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Retail Week
Upmarket frozen food retailer Cook launches online delivery
Retail Week
The family-owned retailer said it has begun a trial of an online and over-the-phone delivery service from its Clapham store. Founder Edward Perry told Retail Week: "We are trialling the service at our Clapham store, possibly with a view to a roll-out ...
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Long-term bets off, cash delivery volumes plunge
Daily News & Analysis
Retail investors contribute nearly 50% to overall cash market, while the shares of proprietary traders, foreign institutional investors and domestic institutions stand at 25%, 17% and 8%, respectively. The sharp rise in option volumes with BSE pushing ...
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Co-op refinancing may lead to acquisition
Retail Week
The retailer, which operates the Co-op supermarkets, agreed a £950m refinancing deal with a group of banks led by Barclays. Analysts believe some of the funds could be spent on further deals after it acquired 28-store Scottish grocery chain David Sands ...
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Plans for Mechanic Theatre site stir controversy
Baltimore Sun (blog)
An informational meeting held Thursday for Baltimore officials to review the initial design of a mixed-use development planned for the site of the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre ended with impassioned comments about the proposed demolition of the ...
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Slice of the pie shrinking for small biz
Sydney Morning Herald
Retail sales rose 1 per cent in June, quicker than a revised 0.8 per cent rise for May, according to the Australia Bureau of Statistics but remain at subdued level compared with longer term growth trends. However, the jump was the biggest two-month ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Retail sales rise again
Enid News & Eagle
For the year, Enid has seen a 16.3 percent increase in retail sales over last year, including a whopping 26.9 percent in January. The oil boom in the Mississippi play north of Enid generally receives credit for the increase in business in northwest ...
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Buyer plans to acquire Daffy's retail real estate
NorthJersey.com
The 51-year-old retail chain announced last month that it was closing all 19 of its stores. The company last year had sales of $151.3 million, and operating losses of $11.4 million, according to bankruptcy documents. The bankruptcy filing also details ...
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