Thursday, August 09, 2012

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6 US retailers set to invade Canada's malls
CBC.ca
The causes have been slightly different, but now, even those that remain face a similar threat: big-budget U.S. retail chains eager to set up shop. Despite the pitfalls, their reasons for doing so are obvious: compared to the U.S., we have fewer places ...
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Govt to push FDI in retail at coordination panel meet
Times of India
NEW DELHI: The Congress leadership will take another shy at opening multi-brand retail to foreign retail chains, with the UPA coordination committee likely to be convened towards the end of the month specifically to smoothen the way for the long ...
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Demand woes dent Pantaloons prospects
Business Standard
A weak retail environment and muted sales growth saw Pantaloon Retail put in another quarter of below par performance. As a consequence, for the June quarter, while sales were up a feeble four per cent at its core retail operations, profit before tax ...
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Apple Retail Stores Offering to Match Discounts on iPhones
Wall Street Journal
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Apple Inc. (AAPL) retail outlets have been authorized to offer discounts on iPhones to match those offered by wireless carriers and retailers, according to two people familiar with the matter. The company has begun telling ...
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Unlike Knight Capital, Retail Investors Earn No Lifeline
Forbes
Knight Capital got a lifeline by the time the market closed on Monday. That's good news, but still frightening. The firm, a leading market maker for firms trusted by retail investors like Vanguard, was about to go out of business last week as it reeled ...
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Massachusetts hopes sales tax holiday boosts retail sector
Reuters
For the upcoming weekend the association is projecting retail sales topping $500 million, far above levels seen on a typical summer weekend, when consumers often are thinking more about the beach than the shopping mall. An early-August weekend would ...
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Retail sales climb in city, drop in Albemarle
The Daily Progress
Charlottesville and Albemarle County retailers combined made nearly 4 percent more in sales for the first six months of 2012, as compared with the first half of last year, with city sales more than 12 percent ahead but county sales falling more than 2 ...
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New Zealand Electronic Card Retail Sales (YoY) 2.6% in Jul
FXstreet.com
New Zealand Electronic Card Retail Sales (YoY) 2.6% in Jul. Thu, Aug 09 2012, 22:46 GMT | FXstreet.com · Share. Related News. New Zealand Electronic Card Retail Sales (YoY) 2.6% in Jul · New Zealand Jul Electronic Card Retail Sales (MoM): -0.6% ...
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Retail Rising; Dillard's Leads Deparment Stores
Investor's Business Daily
As retail industry groups post strong gains, some department store stocks are showing some new life. The department stores group has risen about 7% in the past week, moving into the top-50 IBD industry rankings. Seven of the 18 retail groups tracked by ...
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New retail center in Raleigh's Seaboard area to open by end of the year
News & Observer
The partnership originally planned to tear down the building and replace it with One Eleven Seaboard, a four-story mixed-use project with 52 condominiums sitting atop 12000 square feet of retail space. That project was shelved in July 2008 because of ...
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Best Buy founder seeks to stop "2.0" plan to shrink retail chain
Apple Insider
A decade after observers doubted that Apple could take on efficient big box retailers with its own retail stores, Best Buy is seeking to survive by scaling down its store sizes. Its founder thinks that plan might be fatal. In July, Best Buy announced ...
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The South African retail market: What do retailers need to know?
Retail Week
Spanish chain Zara already has a presence in the country and Walmart's acquisition of a 51% stake in Massmart last year was a significant moment for South African retail. Waitrose pondered a move into the market through a franchisee last year, although ...
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