Thursday, September 06, 2012

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India retail sector to grow at 12% CAGR next 5 yrs
Moneycontrol.com
Investment bank CLSA expects the retail sector in India will grow at a compounded annual rate of 12% over the next five years, with hypermarkets and fast food outlets growing faster than the overall market. Source: Moneycontrol.com ...
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Dixons Retail reports 'encouraging' Q1 results
Proactive Investors UK
Dixons Retail (LON:DXNS) reported that the start to the new financial year has been encouraging thanks to a strong performance in the UK and Ireland and northern Europe. In the 12 weeks period to July 21, the owner of Currys and PC World saw total ...
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Proactive Investors UK
Wal-Mart Asia Chief 'Optimistic' India Will Allow FDI in Retail
Bloomberg
India currently bars foreign retailers such as Wal-Mart that sell multiple brands from investing in supermarkets. A loosening of those restrictions would allow companies including Wal-Mart and Carrefour SA (CA) access to a retail market that is ...
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Bloomberg
Petrol retail margin rise to cater for pay increase
BDlive
THE Department of Energy on Friday increased the retail margin of the price of all grades of petrol in a move to accommodate wage increases for pump attendants and cashiers. The increase in the retail margin will allow fuel retailers to increase the ...
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Cosmetics retailer Kiehl's opens first store in Africa
BDlive
EDCON, the owner of Edgars, has partnered with Kiehl's, an American cosmetics retailer to bring its premium skin, hair and body care products to South Africa. The first Kiehl's store is located in the Edgars at Sandton City shopping mall in Johannesburg.
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BDlive
NEC Provides New Solution for Retail Stores Worldwide
MENAFN.COM
Tokyo, Sep 06, 2012 (Menafn - JCN Newswire via COMTEX) -- NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) is providing a new solution for retail shops, such as convenience stores and drug stores, throughout international markets that include China, Indonesia, ...
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Apple and Retail Disease
TheStreet.com
Except consumers took it a step further and stopped visiting the box altogether -- the "big box" stores, that is. As a result, once-prominent retailers have fallen by the wayside such as CompUSA, Circuit City, Media Play and many others on a list much ...
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Retail Properties of America Breaking Off from Inland Group
CoStar Group
In a letter sent to stockholders, Retail Properties of America Inc. (RPAI) laid out its plans to become an independent investment entity and continue moving away from its roots as a subsidiary of Oak Brook, IL-based Inland Group.
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Customer loyalty and behaviour top priority for MENA retailers
AME Info
Retailers indicated in the survey that they are looking towards retail technology to assist in collating this information to gain valuable customer insight to improve customer experience and gain loyal shoppers. At the 2nd Annual InRetail Summit, the ...
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AME Info
Central Leeds: Retail rivalry is hardly a case of shopping bags at dawn
Yorkshire Evening Post
Most mother and daughter relationships involve a spot of retail therapy now and then, but for one Leeds pair shopping is on the agenda five days a week. That is because Denise Jeffery and Anna Ramsden, from Rothwell, have top roles in two rival ...
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Yorkshire Evening Post
Mobile retail: Reshaping the High Street experience for the twenty-first century
Retail Digital
E-commerce has had a profound effect on the retail industry and as we know and the inexorable rise of the mobile device has been equally disruptive but this needn't necessarily be detrimental to bricks and mortar retailers. Mobile is key to enhancing ...
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Retail supply chain management: negotiating Issac and the potential labour strike
Retail Digital
The threat of a strike and port closings is especially alarming for retailers who are preparing for their most important time of year – the holidays. Retailers who lack the ability to quickly sense and respond to infrastructure meltdowns will be forced ...
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WEAK SALES IN THE FOURTH QUARTER BRING DOWN FULL-YEAR RESULTS
Reuters
RNB RETAIL AND BRANDS sales in the fourth quarter were weak despite a favorable sales trend in June. In the light of the sales trend for the quarter, a marginal improvement in earnings will not be achieved for the current fiscal year compared with the ...
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Q&A: Morrisons chief executive Dalton Philips
Retail Week
Morrisons laid out plans for a new convenience and online push this morning despite a fall in like-for-like sales in the first half of the year. Chief executive Dalton Philips and finance director Richard Pennycook explained the grocer's plans to ...
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Don Muang duty free, general retail and F&B contract awards are delayed
MoodieReport
King Power International Group, the incumbent at Bangkok's main airport Suvarnabhumi, was easily the highest bidder for the duty free contract while powerful local company The Mall Group topped the food & beverage and general retail offers (see below ...
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Consumers take online shopping to another level
BDlive
By global standards, the e-commerce platform in SA is small, but as the timidness of local shoppers fades a growing number of time-poor and techno-savvy consumers are turning to the internet for retail therapy and bargain hunting. This competition is ...
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Nedbank backs more retail growth through Synergy
SA Commercial Prop News
Nedbank partnered with Synergy Income Fund to purchase King Senzangakhona shopping centre in Ulundi, KwaZulu-Natal and The Setsing Crescent shopping centre in Phuthadijhaba, Free State. The purchase of two shopping centres by Synergy Income ...
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