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RBS Plans GBP700M Investment in Retail Operations Wall Street Journal (India) Pressure by regulators to cut out the sale of complex, high-margin, financial products is forcing British retail banks to rethink how they do business. Banks are responding by cutting costs and pumping in money to improve the customer experience. The ... See all stories on this topic »

The Hottest Retail Brands: Fast and Sure-Footed Forbes Robert Mettler may be technically retired, but at 72, he remains an active force in the retail industry on many fronts. In 2009, Bob left Macy's West in San Francisco, where he had been chairman and CEO and nearly doubled that division in size. During ... See all stories on this topic »

How PE Helped Target Stomp into Canada's Retail Sector Private Equity Hub (press release) With private equity's help, Target Corp. is stepping into Canada with 124 new stores this year, upping the ante in Canada's fiercely competitive retail sector. The U.S.-based retailer's arrival will accelerate what has been a 25-year process of ... See all stories on this topic »

RBS to invest £700m in UK retail push Financial Times Those running the retail bank will also remember 2012 as a particularly difficult year after a failed software update disrupted the bank's processing systems in June. RBS struggled to resolve a backlog of tens of millions of transactions following the ... See all stories on this topic »

Kate Spade Reinvents Retail As A Lean Startup Co.Design In the last cycle of Internet technology, we watched mega online retailers like Zappos disrupt through the web. Now, it seems that we're in a technological reverberation, in which online consumer expectations are echoing into physical stores. But that ... See all stories on this topic » Co.Design

Retail ETFs Tick Up on Higher Sales ETF Trends Retail sales reports for the past month have surprised analysts as data came in higher than expected. Sales rose 1.1%, higher than the 0.5% that was expected due to stronger employment reports and solid domestic data. "Morningstar director of economic ... See all stories on this topic » ETF Trends

Stratford retail wave heading toward Mitchell Mitchell Advocate As a wall of retail goes up on the west end of Stratford, West Perth business owners can hear ideas on how to deal with the threats and opportunities of 2013. The West Perth Economic Development committee is hosting a presentation by retail and ... See all stories on this topic »

Retail Industry Showing Strength in 2013 as Commerce Department Reports 1.1 ... Marketwire (press release) NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Mar 18, 2013) - Retail stocks received a boost last Wednesday after a recent report showed U.S. retail sales in February posted its biggest gain in 5 months. The sharp rise comes as a welcome sign as it shows the consumer is ... See all stories on this topic »

Target Canada to open 17 new stores on Tuesday, more next week National Post The retailer opened three Ontario stores in so-called "soft openings" earlier this month to gauge consumer demand and test logistics systems. The March store openings mark the first wave of the Walmart rival's 124 store openings in its Canadian debut ... See all stories on this topic » National Post

Consumers Power Retail Stocks to New Highs Investorplace.com There has been a lot of fear in 2013 about how Washington will affect consumer sentiment, what with the fiscal cliff and the payroll tax cuts and the sequester. But so far, those fears seem to be much ado about nothing. Take last week's retail sales ... See all stories on this topic » Investorplace.com

Employers fail in bid to slash penalty rates for retail, fast food sectors Sydney Morning Herald A push by employers to slash the penalty rates of workers in retail and fast food has failed with the Fair Work Commission saying some of the key claims lacked evidence. In a strongly worded ruling, the full bench of the commission said while there was ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald

Super results for Super Retail but can it continue upwards? The Age This week Paul Ash, Victorian president of the Australian Technical Analysts Association, is focusing our attention on one such company, Super Retail Group. The company was trading on a flat trajectory until around last September when things turned ... See all stories on this topic » The Age

Barclays and JP Morgan are world's top providers of retail structured products FX-MM The results of Greenwich Associates most recent Global Retail Structured Products Study show that approximately 44% of product distributors around the world name Barclays and/or J.P. Morgan as an important provider. Next is HSBC with a market ... See all stories on this topic »

Qatari denial fails to dampen M&S takeover speculation ArabianBusiness.com Although one senior retail banker gave the probability of a takeover at just 5 percent, some analysts said a recent improvement in the debt markets and the amount of cash currently in private equity meant a bid could happen. "You could argue that the ... See all stories on this topic » ArabianBusiness.com

Las Vegas Cyclery takes green retail to extreme Bicycle Retailer Editor's note: The following article appeared in the March 1 issue of Bicycle Retailer & Industry News. By Alan Snel. LAS VEGAS, NV—When you walk into the new Las Vegas Cyclery store, the pleasing aesthetics of the building are striking.The 34-foot ... See all stories on this topic »

IBQ appoints Andrew Ball Head and Hassan Al Mulla Deputy Head Retail Banking Al-Bawaba International Bank of Qatar (ibq) today announced two key executive appointments within Retail Banking. Andrew Ball is appointed Head of Retail Banking while Hassan Al Mulla is appointedDeputy Head of the division. The appointments reflect the bank's ... See all stories on this topic »

DWBIA Against Retail Removal BlackburnNews.com A report going to Windsor City Council tonight is recommending the closure of retail space in the ground level of the Pelissier Street parking garage. It sites low occupancy and heavy repairs needed to fix water damage as the reasons. But Downtown ... See all stories on this topic »

Large retail projects move toward reality North Bay Business Journal Several large retail construction projects are reaching completion or getting started in Sonoma County this year in Petaluma, Sebastopol and Windsor. From early financing challenges to local opposition to the original 300-home concept to two fires ... See all stories on this topic » North Bay Business Journal

E-Retailers Now Accounting for Nearly Half of Book Purchases by Volume Digital Book World In 2012, for the first time ever, online channels accounted for more book purchases than bricks-and-mortar retail in the U.S., according to new data from Bowker Market Research. In 2012 (through Nov.), 43.8% of books bought by consumers were sold ... See all stories on this topic »

Former retail boss John Browett on his time at Apple: 'I just didn't fit' Macworld UK Browett, who left his role of CEO as Dixons Retail to head up Apple's retail in January 2012, is now chief executive at Monsoon Accessorize, where he will head up more than 1000 stores across 74 countries, with 380 of those stores located in the UK and ... See all stories on this topic » Macworld UK

Arabic invoices at UAE retail outets Zawya (registration) Arabic invoices at the UAE retail outlets will be made mandatory three months after signing the agreement between retailers and the Ministry of Economy's Department of Consumer Protection. This was announced during a meeting held in the presence of ... See all stories on this topic »

RAJA Chooses n.SKEP Retail Planning Solution "Ready To Plan" to Enhance Its ... SYS-CON Media (press release) DynaSys, a division of QAD Inc., experts in solutions for Demand & Supply Chain Planning, today announced the RAJA Group has implemented DynaSys n.SKEP Retail Planning solution to enhance its growth strategy. The European leader in the distribution ... See all stories on this topic »

Major retail center proposed for Porters Neck Greater Wilmington Business Journal One of the largest retail developments since the construction of Mayfaire Town Center could soon be headed for the Porters Neck area of New Hanover County. David E. Harner, vice president and senior real estate manager for Paramount Development Corp. See all stories on this topic »

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