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Retail spending up 1.3pc in February
The Australian
Retail sales rose 1.3 per cent in February from a month earlier, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said today, compared with a 0.3 per cent rise expected by economists. Sales for January were upwardly revised to 1.2 per cent from 0.9 per cent when ...
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Australian Retail Sales Rise Faster Than Expected in February
Bloomberg
Australian retail sales climbed four times faster than economists forecast in February, led by gains in household goods and department stores as interest-rate reductions encouraged spending. The local dollar advanced. Sales climbed 1.3 percent to A$21 ...
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Wholesale, retail chains find city attractive
Daily News & Analysis
Organised retail and wholesale chains find Bangalore an attractive choice for opening outlets and doing business. The cheaper real estate, as compared to metros like New Delhi and Mumbai, combined with greater purchasing power of consumers, has left ...
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Daily News & Analysis
Retail Velocity Adds Industry Veteran to Sales and Marketing Team
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Retail Velocity (formerly Vendor Managed Technologies, Inc. or VMT), a leader of enterprise demand sensing and retail execution solutions, announced that Gary Adams has joined the company. Gary is an industry veteran who brings ...
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Australian Dollar Holds Gains Before Retail Sales, Building Data
Bloomberg
Retail sales in Australia probably rose 0.3 percent in February, adding to a 0.9 percent gain in the previous month, according to the median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg. Building approvals may have rebounded 2.5 percent in February ...
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Retailers Embrace Technology to Combat Employee Theft
Newsmax.com
The databases are used by tens of thousands of companies, including major retailers like Target, CVS, and Family Dollar to help curb shrinkage. Figures provided by the National Retail Federation in 2011 showed employee theft accounted for about 44 ...
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Retailers, Designers Team With Vital Voices to Empower Women
Women's Wear Daily
The retailer partners with the State Department in the Women's Entrepreneurship in the Americas (WEAmericas) program, and with ExxonMobil, Federal Express and CH2M Hill to fund the Latin American and Caribbean Businesswomen's Network. Ann Inc.
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US retail giant Marshalls to open in Winnipeg Thursday
CBC.ca
Winnipeggers will get their first look at a new Marshalls store in the city's Polo North Complex on Thursday morning. The U.S. retailer known for offering designer brands at a cheaper price is the latest retail giant to open in the city, after IKEA and ...
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CBC.ca
Federal Realty Acquires Key Retail Property In Darien, CT
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Federal Realty Investment Trust is an equity real estate investment trust specializing in the ownership, management, development, and redevelopment of high quality retail assets. Federal Realty's portfolio (excluding joint venture properties) contains ...
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Retailers told "optimise for tablets"
Warc
L2, the thinktank, examined the tablet competence of 60 leading retail brands for its Tablets: Retail report and concluded that "the investment and performance do not match the opportunity". Despite tablet visitors to retail sites being three times ...
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More than half of Americans turn to retail therapy to lift their mood
New York Daily News
What triggers one to seek retail therapy? One out of five (nearly 19 percent) participants said to improve their mood after a bad day at work, followed by more than 14 percent who shop after bad news and more than 12 percent who do so after a fight ...
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New York Daily News
Retail buyers pack NEPC expo floor
The Packer
BOSTON — Retail buyers walked the floors meeting with grower-shippers and distributors at this year's New England Produce Council Produce and Floral Expo. In its 14th year, the April 2-3 event brought retailers from throughout the East Coast to the ...
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Shop price inflation accelerates
Retail Digital
For the first time in 15 months, UK is seeing a rise in price of non-food goods. Overall, non-food inflation stood at 0.2% in March, compared with 0.4% deflation in February.According to data released by British Retail Consortium, overall shop price ...
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Malls rushing to sign up brands like Zara and Starbucks on hopes of more ...
Economic Times
"Earlier we had no experience to fall back upon and retail leasing was done on assumptions," says Benu Sehgal, vice president for mall management for DLF Utilities. "But now all myths are broken and we have real data to make decisions. We know what ...
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Economic Times
British Chic Tested as Asos to TopShop Seek US Growth
Businessweek
Leading the British invasion are online specialist Asos Plc, fashion chain TopShop, catalog retailer Boden, youth- focused Jack Wills Ltd., and SuperGroup Plc's Superdry stores. Their strategies vary -- some trade on British cool, others emphasize ...
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Chevy Cruze sees best retail sales ever
Trib- Today
Save | Post a comment |. Staff, wire reports. March marked the best retail sales month for the Lordstown-built Chevy Cruze since the car's U.S. launch three years ago, General Motors officials announced Tuesday morning in their monthly sales conference ...
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Teens Shopping Resale, Because Paying Retail Is Not Cool
Hartford Courant
According to the Association of Resale Professionals, the multibillion-dollar-a-year industry supports more than 25,000 resale, consignment and thrift shops, where merchandise prices are half, or less, the price of retail. While the association doesn't ...
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Retail spending up 1.3% in Feb
Sydney Morning Herald
AAP. Australian retail spending rose 1.3 per cent in February to a seasonally adjusted $21.95 billion, official figures show. By comparison, retail trade in January was $21.666 billion, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday. Economists ...
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