Tuesday, November 06, 2012

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Nokia, Spice Retail to pay Rs 17K for selling faulty mobile
Business Standard
Nokia India and Spice Retail have been directed by a consumer forum here to refund Rs 11,909 to a customer and pay her a compensation of Rs 5,000 for selling her a defective mobile phone and failing to repair it. The East District Consumer Disputes ...
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All India retail trends look good: Titan sales & retail head
Hindu Business Line
Bucking the slowdown trends seen in the economy, the festival shopping season has perked up. "The all-India retail trends looks good and if it continues we should see a recovery of sorts," said S. Natarajan, Head, Sales & Retail, Titan Industries Ltd ...
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Retail sales slip ahead of Christmas
Telegraph.co.uk
In one of the worst months for the sector this year, the British Retail Consortium said October's UK retail sales were 0.1pc lower on a like-for-like basis than a year ago, ending the modest revival seen in September. "Unfortunately it looks like the ...
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Govt dangles tax carrot for retail stock investors
Moneycontrol.com
Govt dangles tax carrot for retail stock investors. India launched the Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme in late-September, an initiative that aims to bring millions of first-time investors into stocks by offering a tax incentive to deepen market ...
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M&S profits fall 10pc
Telegraph.co.uk
The 128-year-old food and fashion retailer said profits fell 9.6pc to £290m in the six months to September 30. This was on the back of a 2.5pc fall in like-for-like general merchandise sales in the half-year, which dragged down total UK like-for-like ...
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KV Thomas apprises PM Manmohan Singh of high-level panel on internal trade
Times of India
In September, the Cabinet gave green signal to 51 per cent Foreign Direct Investment in multi-brand retail. It had also directed setting up of a high-level committee under the chairmanship of the Consumer Affairs Minister to make recommendations to the ...
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TEXT-S&P publishes reports on the European retail sector
Reuters
(The following statement was released by the rating agency). Nov 06 - European retailers' earnings and revenues are coming under increasing pressure amid weak economic conditions and structural upheavals in the industry, says Standard & Poor's Ratings ...
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Emirates NBD Sees 2013 Retail Revenue Up 15% on Dubai Rebound
Bloomberg
Emirates NBD PJSC (EMIRATES), the United Arab Emirates' biggest bank by assets, seeks to boost revenue from its retail business by as much as 15 percent next year and has board approval to hire 200 staff to expand the business. Revenue will be driven ...
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United Methodists' Cokesbury retail stores to close
The Tennessean
From January through April, all 38 standalone retail stores, including the one off Eighth Avenue South near downtown Nashville, and 19 stores at seminaries across the country will close, the company announced Monday. Across the chain, about 185 full ...
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Council members seek to protect some downtown Palo Alto retail space
San Jose Mercury News
The Palo Alto City Council took a step Monday night toward preserving ground-floor retail along a block of Emerson Street in downtown Palo Alto, but expressed doubts that other parts of the commercial district need to be similarly protected. Vice Mayor ...
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Hurricane Sandy - The Perfect Supply Chain Storm
Retail Digital
As a retail supply chain professional, I am spending a great deal of time talking with clients about how they will keep their Northeast supply chain operations running smoothly during the critical holiday sales season. The infrastructure damage is ...
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US Retailers Forecast 3.7% Increase in Holiday Comparable Stores Sales, BDO ...
www.DiamondNe.ws
Despite uncertainty around how the presidential election will impact the economy and consumer spending, retailers are confident headed into the holiday season. According to a recent BDO USA survey, chief marketing officers at leading U.S. retailers ...
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Fama Reinforces Farmers' Retail Network
Bernama
During a recent visit to the agro bazaar at Kedai Rakyat in Tanah Merah, Fama Chairman Tan Sri Badruddin Amiruldin explains the retail network acts as the agency's agent in buying agriculture produce according to the market price. "Farmers in Tanah ...
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Retail demand and footfall drops before Christmas rush
bdaily
An uplift in the retail sector during September has been met with a negative blow, after footfall in non-food stores dropped and consumer demand decreased. An autumnal change in the weather resulted in a slight spike in demand in the last two weeks of ...
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Retailers see sharp slowdown as Britons cut back - BRC
Reuters UK
LONDON (Reuters) - British retail sales slowed sharply in October as Britons limited spending to essentials such as food and drink, the British Retail Consortium said on Tuesday, dampening hopes that consumers will drive the economic recovery. Like-for ...
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U.K. October Retail Sales Fall as Britons Cut Spending, BRC Says
Bloomberg
Including stores open less than 12 months, retail sales rose 1.1 percent last month from a year earlier, the slowest pace since April, according to the BRC. In the three months through October, food sales increased 0.7 percent from a year earlier on a ...
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GfK urges cycle retailers to get involved with new UK cycle stats
Bike Biz
We spoke with GfK's business group director Daniel Fearnley to find out more about the proposal and how retail can participate… How has the trade responded to the request to get involved? We have been encouraged by the response from all areas of ...
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US retailers have solid October, small Sandy impact so far
Economic Times
"While home centers, mass merchants and grocery stores experienced a boost in traffic and 'must-have' purchases at the end of retail October, the overall impact of this superstorm will be realized in retail November," said Planalytics, a Philadelphia ...
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Comment: Retailers must use customer data effectively
Retail Week
I'm not a lover of TLAs – that's two- or three-letter acronyms in case you didn't know. They get bandied around a bit too frequently, particularly in ecommerce and marketing. Industry stalwarts often hijack them as a kind of club membership: if you don ...
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Retail Week
Transportation center retail space leased in Norwich
TheDay.com
The City Council Monday approved a three-year lease with Waseem Khan of Norwich, who operates other convenience stores in the region, to operate a retail outlet in the 738-square-foot space adjacent to the lobby in the transportation center. The $22 ...
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