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Alok mulls exit from retail business
Business Standard
While global brands are setting sights on lucrative Indian retail, textile major Alok Industries is looking at exiting its retail ventures. Alok, it is learnt, is looking at hiving off or exiting its five-year old apparel retail business, 'H&A' and 200 ...
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Stocks weigh on retail demand in sugar
Hindu Business Line
Bulk consumers and stockists prefer new purchases as per need tracking retailers demand'. Crushing season is on at national levels forcing mills to continue selling in local markets to avoid stocks burden. Supply is ample and retail demand is slowing down.
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Hindu Business Line
FDI in multi-brand retail to boost economy, says James Mirrlees
Hindu Business Line
Opening up multi-brand retail sector to foreign companies should give a boost to India's economy, Nobel laureate economist James Mirrlees said on Tuesday. The Scottish economist, however, pointed out that small shopkeepers could face "some problems" ...
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Gold edges higher on retail off-take; silver eases
Indian Express
Gold prices advanced modestly in a quiet trade at the domestic bullion market here today on fresh local buying interest coupled with good jewellery demand. On the other hand, silver moved down owing to subdued industrial demand. Standard gold of 99.5 ...
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FDI in multi-brand good for retail sector
Economic Times
Year 2012 boded well for the retail sector with bill on Foreign Direct Investment ( FDI) in multi-brand retail being passed by Parliament albeit riders like approvals from states for implementation. This big step tshowed the government's commitment ...
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Economic Times
Holiday season retail sales rose 2.5 percent: ShopperTrak
Reuters
(Reuters) - U.S. retail sales rose 2.5 percent during the 2012 holiday season, helped by a late surge in store visits in the days right before Christmas, retail tracking firm ShopperTrak said on Wednesday. ShopperTrak, which monitors the number of ...
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Play.com closes retail business as VAT loophole closed
The Guardian
Online retailer Play.com is to shut down its retail business following the UK government's closure of a loophole allowing it to sell VAT-free CDs and DVDs from the Channel Islands. The company is reportedly making 147 staff redundant in Jersey as well ...
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The Guardian
NRF & Phoenix University announce retail scholarships
Fibre2fashion.com
Ten U.S. retail employees will have a chance to make their dreams a reality through a program announced between the NRF Foundation and the University of Phoenix. The Dream BIG scholarship will award 10 current retail employees with full tuition at any ...
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Several Retail Names Look Vulnerable
NASDAQ
One question on Wall Street's mind these days is the strength of the consumer and what effect it will have on the retail sector in 2013. The SPDR S&P Retail ETF (NYSE: XRT ) had a solid 2012, up 19 percent, compared to a 13 percent gain for the S&P 500 ...
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How Retail Banks Are Shrinking
CNBC.com
Investment banking has been the focus of much of the recent news in the financial universe, with politicians urging banks to refocus on their traditional retail operations after perceived excessive risk taking elsewhere. Yet those operations themselves ...
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CNBC.com
U.K.'s December Retail Sales +2%
Rapaport
RAPAPORT... U.K. retail sales barely rose on a same-store sales basis in December, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and the KPMG Retail Sales Monitor. Overall retail sales inched ahead 1.5 percent year on year during the Christmas ...
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Rapaport
ARTS to display cutting-edge retail technology at NRF expo
Fibre2fashion.com
The Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) will once again bring the innovative and cutting-edge technologies retailers use every day to the forefront at Retail's BIG Show. The ARTS Pavilion (booth 2253), a showcase of retail solutions ...
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Venezuela Sugar Producers Must Sell 70% to Retail, Gazette Says
Bloomberg
The Venezuelan government ordered sugar producers to sell 70 percent of their production to retail outlets and the rest to local industry, according to a resolution published today in the Official Gazette. Sugar producers must allocate the majority of ...
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Ascena Retail appoints Dirk Montgomery as CFO
Fibre2fashion.com
Ascena Retail Group, Inc. announced that Dirk Montgomery has accepted the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective January 16, 2013. Montgomery succeeds Armand Correia, who will be retiring after 21 years with the ...
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Masterplan will 'shift retail balance'
Jarrow & Hebburn Gazette
But he also believes it could mark the "death knell" of the town's main shopping thoroughfare as a retail area. Mr Holder says he will be looking to re-locate his business to the proposed Barrington Street shopping area if a suitable-sized unit became ...
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Jarrow & Hebburn Gazette
homes going up as retail sales slide
The Australian
RETAIL sales remained in the doldrums in November and job vacancies shrank, but a lift in home sales helped temper pessimism that Australia's economy would slow much further in 2013. A survey of major Australian home builders showed a 4.7 per cent ...
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Target To Price Match Retail Prices, Including Amazon
TechnoBuffalo
Best Buy matched prices during the holiday season, and now Target is entering the price-matching game, but instead of a short, defined period, Target will offer this new policy year-round. Target will match prices from other brick and mortar retailers ...
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TechnoBuffalo
Australian retail trade falls 0.1 pct in November
EastDay.com
SYDNEY, Jan. 9 -- Australian retail turnover fell 0.1 percent in November 2012, following a flat month in October, data released on Wednesday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed. The ABS said retail turnover in the month was 21.53 ...
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X2 Computing Launches Retail Software Suite To Improve Efficiency Of Home ...
Bobsguide (press release)
X2 Computing, a leading supplier of mobile computing solutions to the retail and order fulfilment market sectors, has announced the immediate availability of the Tlantic Mobile Retail Suite (MRS), an innovative software solution that automates, and ...
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Bobsguide (press release)
What's Trending in the Retail Industry in 2013
AdAge.com
As mobile adoption and video consumption soars, retailers are looking for ways to get in on the action. "Shoppable media," meaning video or print vehicles that encourage customers to immediately purchase products using various technologies, will become ...
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AdAge.com
Retail Fashion Designer For Casuals
FashionUnited India
... co -ordinate with master get the samples made, organize all the embellishment work. To show the Final product along with the costings. Preferable from Retail Industry & should be able to handle ladies Casual line. Knowledge of Corel Draw & Adobe ...
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retail figures fail to dent Aussie
The Australian
The currency had fallen below $US1.05 shortly after the release of national retail figures for November at 11.30am AEDT, but climbed back above the symbolic level. The Australian Bureau of Statistics figures showed that retail spending fell 0.1 per ...
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VantageSouth Bank will open retail branch in SouthPark
Charlotte Business Journal (blog)
Jones says the bank will offer commercial lending, mortgages and retail bank products. VantageSouth also has a large Small Business Administration loan group in Salisbury. It ranks among the top three producers in the state. That division could soon be ...
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Guernsey retail could face 'tough time'
BBC News
Speaking following the survey, Tony Rowbotham of the chamber's retail sub-committee, said: "I don't think that the retail sector [in Guernsey] is anything like as bad as some people would like to make out." Mr Hollis, who has worked in and reported on ...
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BBC News
Bargain-hunters rush in as French retail sales start
Reuters UK
French retailers experienced their ninth month of sales declines in December, according to Markit retail PMI data, while gross margins continued to shrink. Still, executives at Galeries Lafayette - which sells everything from saucepans to stilettos ...
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