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Black Friday is retail employees' Super Bowl season
Dallas Morning News
Hundreds of thousands of retail workers — 660,200 by one estimate — were hired maybe as recently as a couple of weeks ago. Bonus pay for working Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday is standard, but consider the base: The median pay for a full-time ...
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Dallas Morning News
BJP protest against inflation, FDI in retail
Times of India
GUWAHATI: Demonstrations were held by BJP in Guwahati and other parts of Assam to protest against spiralling inflation, opening of the multi-brand retail sector to FDI and coal allocation scam on Wednesday. BJP state unit president Sarbananda Sonowal, ...
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Retail Stores Borrow From Fast-Food Industry's Playbook
Motley Fool
NEW YORK (AP) -- This holiday season, Burger King won't be the only place where you can have it your way. It used to be enough for stores to promise discounts of up to 70 percent off to lure shoppers during the busy holiday shopping season. But the ...
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Retailers Brace for Turbulent Six Weeks as 2012 Closes
Fox Business
The fourth quarter is always an active – and critical – period for retailers, but with just six weeks left and still much left unresolved, the second-half has much more on the line. Whether it's gearing up for Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the next ...
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Retail bonds open up new lane for retail investors
BBC News
Last week, every schoolboy's favourite trucker hit the market when we saw the launch of a bond issue by Eddie Stobart. That is the company best known for its fleet of haulage trucks that fly along the motorways, each adorned with the name of a female ...
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BBC News
TEXT - Fitch on 2013 US retail outlook
Reuters
Nov 21 - Market share defensibility will remain a key challenge for many traditional U.S. retailers in 2013, against a backdrop of minimal growth and heavy competition, according to Fitch Ratings. Fitch views trends in market share as an important ...
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Black Friday comes to Canada: Retailers planning sales in effort to stem US tide
National Post
Tough competition and sluggish growth have spurred Canadian retailers to look for novel ways to defend market share, and many are opting to import U.S.-style Black Friday sales, even though Canadians celebrated Thanksgiving in October and the year's ...
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National Post
Winter Session begins today, Trinamool to formally move no-confidence motion ...
India Today
Strongly opposing FDI in retail sector, Banerjee has remained adamant in moving the no-confidence motion despite being isolated by the Opposition parties over it. She had said on Tuesday that she has no hesitation in supporting even a no-trust motion ...
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India Today
BLACK FRIDAY: Local retailers ready for rush
Chronicle-Telegram
A study conducted by the University of Cincinnati Economics Center for the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants shows an expected 4.2 percent increase in retail sales November and December this year as compared to the same time frame last year.
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Retail Industry Stock Outlook - Nov. 2012 - Industry Outlook
NASDAQ
As consumer spending is the key to the viability of any economy, the health of the retail industry is an important economic indicator. According to the National Retail Federation, retail accounts for about $2.5 trillion of annual U.S. GDP and acts as a ...
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Retail Sales Catch Hurricane Sandy Flu
Bloomberg
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- On today's "Off The Charts," Scarlet Fu looks at retail sales during the Thanksgiving holiday week. She speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Market Makers." (Source: Bloomberg) ...
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Winter session likely to be stormy over FDI in retail
Hindu Business Line
In an all-party meeting convened by the Speaker Meira Kumar, the Opposition said that the Centre has violated an assurance given to Parliament that FDI in retail will not be allowed without proper consultations with stakeholders. The Government said it ...
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US Online Retail Sales Forecast +17%
Rapaport
Digital metrics firm comScore Inc. predicted that U.S. online retail sales will surge 17 percent year on year to $43.4 billion for the whole Christmas-selling period as measured from November 1 through December 30. (Watch: Metrics from industry ...
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Rapaport
Sir Philip Green aims to double his Arcadia retail empire in the next four years
Mirror.co.uk
Tycoon Sir Philip Green wants to DOUBLE his retail empire in the next four years. The billionaire says business is booming – especially abroad – and it's not only Topshop doing a roaring trade. Other fashion firms such as Wallis and Dorothy Perkins ...
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Mirror.co.uk
Click Frenzy failure maintains the status quo
SmartCompany.com.au
Before we delve into the Click Frenzy crash, let's just remember this: The Australian retail industry has been campaigning against international online shopping for several months. In some cases, executives have said it's un-Australian to buy overseas ...
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Retail Stocks' Holiday Season Winners and Losers
Bloomberg
Alert icon. Loading... Published on Nov 21, 2012 by Bloomberg. Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Alix Steel reports on the winners and losers in retail stocks during the holiday shopping season. She speaks on Bloomberg Television's "In The Loop." ...
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Best Banks 2012: Rana Kapoor takes YES Bank to top of mid-sized bank category
Business Today
Pralay Mondal, the bank's head of retail business, will vouch for that. Mondal, who was previously Head of Retail Banking at HDFC Bank, accepted Kapoor's offer to join YES Bank at their first meeting itself. "The meeting lasted two hours," says Mondal ...
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Business Today
ARA Retail Award winners revealed
Inside Retailing
Jewellery chain, Pandora has been named the 2012 Australian Retailer of the Year following its win at the ARA Australian Retail Awards breakfast this morning. Chicken brand, Leonard's Chicken was also a winner at the awards scooping up the title as the ...
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Retailers upbeat on Click Frenzy despite meltdown
The Australian Financial Review
The retail industry has backed the idea behind online mega sale Click Frenzy, but says a different approach will be needed after technical difficulties marred the inaugural attempt. The event aimed to inject life into local online retail sales by ...
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The Australian Financial Review


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