Friday, August 24, 2012

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FDI in retail is no monster
Hindu Business Line
The proposed policy to introduce foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail is not just about changing the profile of our familiar roadside shops. It also relates to transforming the lives of whole chains of human beings, and the operations ...
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Next Retail to extend private labels
Hindu Business Line
Videocon Group promoted Next Retail is planning to extend its private labels into the MIDAS (Mobile, IT, digital cameras and small appliances) category. Currently, its two private label brands, Hyundai and Next, exist in the television and flat panel ...
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Hindu Business Line
Global retail chains link up Down Under
Sydney Morning Herald
Almost 50 years later, Australians might invoke the words ''American invasion'' to describe the retail blitz here by US chain store powerhouses such as Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch and the soon to open J.Crew, Sephora and Banana Republic. Hip American ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Polish July Retail Sales Rise Firmly, but Slump Ahead
Wall Street Journal (blog)
WARSAW–Polish retail sales rose robustly in July, the country's statistics office said Friday, but economists doubt the pace can be maintained amid the euro-zone crisis and deteriorating sentiment among Polish consumers. Sales rose 6.9% on the year in ...
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Retail sector defies prophets of doom with profits in sales
Sydney Morning Herald
The latest Colliers International National Retail Investment Review 2011/12, which covers transactions greater than $10 million in Australia, found that nearly all of the top 10 largest sales in 2011-12 took place in the first half of this calendar ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Govt move to convert IFCI debentures to hit retail investors
NDTV
The government decision to convert its debentures into shares of IFCI will hit retail shareholders hard. With over 1 million shareholders holding 43 per cent of its Rs 787 crore equity base, the IFCI stock has huge interest among smaller shareholders.
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HMV launches myhmv in next step of multichannel overhaul
Retail Week
"We have massive footfall in stores – 130 million a year – so we're not short of customers," he told Retail Week. "We know that a percentage of them buy from us, but there's a big opportunity for us to find out what the others that don't buy do in our ...
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Cybercrime costs UK retailers over £200 million a year
HEXUS
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has released a new report showing that the total cost of e-crime to the retail sector was £205.4 million during the year 2011-12. The report, published under the title Counting the cost of e-crime, calls e-crime the ...
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Men on a mission find remedy in retail
Sydney Morning Herald
MISSION shopping and spur-of-the-moment retail therapy are playing an ever-growing role in the way people shop, according to the latest sentiment survey by independent research group Directional Insights. Having determined that people are also turning ...
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CITGO And Citi Retail Services Partner To Launch New CITGO Rewards ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
24, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ -- CITGO Petroleum Corporation and Citi Retail Services are launching a new private-label consumer credit card that allows CITGO customers to earn five cents-per-gallon credits for fuel purchases at all CITGO locations ...
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Retail food price inflation remains unchanged
Agri-Pulse
WASHINGTON, August 24, 2012- The Consumer Price Index (CPI) USDA released today noted that the Midwestern drought is raising corn and soybean prices, but that the impact will not be seen on retail prices until 2013. The USDA's Economic Research ...
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Agri-Pulse
Cent'res remix the of'ferings
Sydney Morning Herald
The general theme was that retail landlords are diversifying to create shopping centres that will appeal to all customers - not just shoppers, but those who want to use the cinemas, food courts and general services such as nail salons. The entrance of ...
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9 Highly Shorted Retail Stocks Positively Correlated with Volatility
Kapitall Blog (blog)
Do you look for contrarian opportunities in the market? If so, here's a list you might be interested in. We began by screening the retail industry for stocks with bearish sentiment, with float shorts above 10%. We then screened for those with strong ...
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Kapitall Blog (blog)
BJP to oppose FDI in multi-brand retail
Hindustan Times
Accusing the UPA government as being overly ambitious and paying no heed to the demands of small traders, he said, "The BJP won't compromise its stand on FDI in retail and it won't allow the government to bring in foreign companies to do trade in India ...
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BJP-RETAIL 2 LAST
IBNLive.com
NEWDEL DES28 BJP-RETAIL 2 LAST (Reopens DEL84) According to the report, FDI in multi-brand retail without adequate safeguards will lead to widespread displacement and poor treatment of Indian workers in logistics, agriculture and manufacturing.
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Analysis: The top loyalty cards on the high street
Retail Week
... 2012 | By Tiffany Holland, Gemma Goldfingle, Alex Lawson. As fashion retailer Jaeger claims its new loyalty offer is "the most generous fashion brand loyalty scheme on the high street", Retail Week takes a look at other top reward schemes available.
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6 Questions Retail CFOs Should Ask CIOs
RIS News (blog)
By Jeff Muscarella. As IT's role in retail innovation grows, so does spending and so does executive interest in the way IT costs are being managed. It wasn't very long ago that CFOs had little knowledge about IT investments beyond line item descriptions.
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