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FDI in retail will benefit all
Hindu Business Line
Permitting FDI in retail is likely to open new opportunities for farmers, particularly for those dealing in fruits and vegetables. Studies show that profit realisation by farmers can increase up to 60 per cent when the produce is sold directly to ...
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Hindu Business Line
Retail sector to grow into $1.3-t market by 2020: FICCI
Hindu Business Line
However, this cannot be solely addressed by the conventional brick and mortar retail channel because the opportunity is dispersed across the country, the chamber said, where a billion plus customers need a million sales and service touch points.
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Cantabil Retail India Limited
Moneycontrol.com
Cantabil Retail India Limited has submitted to the Exchange the Standalone Financial Results along with the Limited Review Report for the period ended June 30,2012. More Announcements on: Cantabil Retail · Peers. 8th-Aug-2012 16:34 Source: NSE ...
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Retail's Future: Price Comparison Via Smartphone Apps
InformationWeek
Brick-and-mortar retail businesses are under assault from smartphones. New data from Yankee Group shows that a growing number of smartphone users are taking advantage of mobile shopping applications to see where they can get the best deal.
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Hindware's Evok to launch online platform
Hindu Business Line
Hindware Home Retail-promoted Evok plans to diversify its retail formats. It will start by launching an e-commerce retail platform, besides tweaking its store size to capture more consumers. "The home solution vertical is destination shopping. In ...
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Hindu Business Line
EBay lures big retailers in Amazon battle
Reuters India
O), once a scrappy auction site for mom and pop sellers, is enticing some of the world's largest retailers by arguing it can help them compete better against e-commerce leader Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O). EBay Chief Executive John Donahoe and other ...
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Pantaloon Retail Q4 net profit falls 78%
Indian Express
Pantaloon Retail (India) today posted 78.57 per cent decline in consolidated net profit at Rs 21.16 crore for the fourth quarter ended June 30. The company's consolidated net profit in the same quarter last year stood at Rs 98.78 crore, which was ...
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Retail Investors And The Stock Market
iStockAnalyst
Sorry, but retail investors, and many professionals too, give way to fear and greed, and chase trends. They are not invested at the bottom, because they are too scared. They are invested at the top, because it is the "thing to do if you want to make ...
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Retailers hoping for positive impact from Olympics
Fresh Business Thinking
The latest results from the Retail Traffic Index (RTI), which monitors the volume of shoppers in non-food stores across the UK, continued to record disappointing national footfall levels in July with a 5.2 per cent year on year decline (vs July 2011 ...
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Retail trainees graduate from youth assistance programme
Bizcommunity.com
Retail Relate provides Wholesale and Retail SETA accredited and funded retail training to matriculants who sometimes qualify for tertiary training but are hindered by financial constraints. In March last year, 196 unemployed young adults from Gauteng ...
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Tempur-Pedic® Opens Premiere Flagship Retail Store
Sacramento Bee
7, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Tempur-Pedic International Inc. (NYSE: TPX), the leading manufacturer, marketer and distributor of premium mattresses and pillows worldwide, announced today that its premiere retail store – the very first of its kind – is now ...
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RILA Urges Presidential Candidates to Pursue Pro-Retail Policies
U.S. Politics Today
8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In letters sent to President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney, the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) urged both to consider the retail industry's prominent role in the U.S. economy as they advance their ...
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EDENS to Establish The Shops at Stonefield as Charlottesvilles's Premier ...
Sacramento Bee
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Aug. 7, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- EDENS, one of the nation's leading retail real estate owners and developers, is developing The Shops at Stonefield in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Shops at Stonefield will begin opening stores and ...
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Cantabil Retail - Outcome of Board Meeting
Moneycontrol.com
Cantabil Retail - Outcome of Board Meeting. Cantabil Retail India Ltd has informed BSE that the Board of Directors of the Company at its meeting held on August 08, 2012, inter alia, considered the following: 1. considered and approved the resignation ...
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Amazon's Lockers Move Front Line of Retail War to Back of 7-Eleven
Wired News
To be fair, the Amazon lockers that Wired visited in San Francisco were stuck next to the women's room in the back of a 7-Eleven—not the most glamorous retail experience. But consumers will likely brave the smell of lukewarm hot dogs for the sake of ...
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Consumer Reports Index: Retail Spending Portends Soft Back-To-School ...
Sacramento Bee
7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Consumer Reports Index, an overall gauge of consumer personal financial health, showed that Americans' retail spending in the past month declined slightly. But compared to a year ago, purchases registered a ...
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HOW TO PLAY IT-Booking retail profits on back to school
Reuters Africa
By David Randall. NEW YORK Aug 8 (Reuters) - With the lazy days of summer vacation dwindling, investors are starting to take a closer look at which U.S. retailers could pull ahead in the back-to-school shopping season. It's an annual event that spurs ...
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Production, retail sale of thinners banned in Chandigarh
Day & Night News
The Union government has banned production and sale of correction fluid and bottled thinner used for ink erasing purposes or as nail polish removers. A copy of the notification in this regard was submitted before the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
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EIA increases price forecast for retail gasoline
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The Energy Information Administration increased Tuesday its price forecast for retail gasoline to $3.53 a gallon on average for the year from $3.49 in the agency's July outlook. The EIA kept its forecast for U.S. oil ...
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Keep your mobile out of a silo
InternetRetailer.com
Rolling out a mobile presence, with all of its cutting-edge, consumer-pleasing and commerce-boosting technology, should take sharp turn away from an old retailing problem: that of building and operating individual retail channels within single silos ...
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One Iowa business in top 100 for retail sales
Radio Iowa
An Iowa State University retail specialist says recent information on the industry shows discount store giant Walmart remained on top for retail sales at $316-billion, and only one Iowa-based store showed up in the top 100. Economist Ron Prescott says ...
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Commercial property sector pessimism grows
Sydney Morning Herald
A weaker retail environment and continued worries about prospects for Europe's financial stability have driven down views on conditions in the commercial property sector to a two-year low. National Australia Bank's commercial property index fell to ...
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