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Microfinance firm enters retail trade Times of India KOLKATA: Life for several self-help group (SHG) workers in eastern India's largest microfinance company Bandhan is set to change for the betterwould not be the same. Bandhan has forayed into retail business to sell the handicraft goods manufactured by ... See all stories on this topic »

Surviving retailers stagger on after the high street's day of the dead The Guardian It is four years this month since Woolworths collapsed, sparking one of the biggest closing-down sales in retail history and distorting festive trade for many of its rivals. A looming clearout at Comet could cause similar problems this year for chains ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Online retailers urged to improve security Business Spectator Fair Trading had commissioned a survey of 1000 consumers and 200 small and medium businesses after receiving more than 7000 complaints about online retail over the past financial year, Mr Roberts said. "Forty-eight per cent of businesses surveyed do ... See all stories on this topic »

Christmas coming early for some retailers The Albany Herald According to Aaron Johnson, assistant professor of economics at Darton State College, retail sales for the Albany metropolitan statistical area is up 3.9 percent over this time last year. The Albany MSA includes not only Dougherty County but Lee, Baker ... See all stories on this topic »

Info Retail CEO Bushman helping consumers see more Marietta Daily Journal Ron Bushman founded Info Retail in 1995. He admits that his company's services are so distinctive, it is hard to categorize it within a particular industry group. Bushman used his background in advertising, design and brand management to start a ... See all stories on this topic »

TIF subsidy tilts the retail playing field STLtoday.com The East-West Gateway Council of Governments, in a 2011 report, calculated that the region spent $370,000 for each retail job that TIFs and other subsidies generated. "That is not a road to growth, it is a road to poverty," said David Stokes, a policy ... See all stories on this topic »

US investors pulled support from Comet Telegraph.co.uk The investors appointed Jim Shinehouse, the American restructuring expert, to the board of Comet's parent company, Hailey Acquisitions Limited (HAL), to monitor the finances of the retailer "like a hawk". Mr Shinehouse was one of only two people on the ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

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