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Bangladesh factory collapse: What do retailers need to know?
Retail Week
Primark has been the main UK retailer to come under the spotlight as its supplier Simple Approach occupied the second floor of the building. Primark said it carried out annual inspections of the space it was using but did not inspect the building's ...
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Banks to continue focusing on retail credit in FY14
Business Standard
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data show retail loans have increased by 13.5 per cent in February this year, compared with an increase of 12.2 per cent in February 2012. According to Vaibhav Agrawal, vice president (research), Angel Broking, home and auto ...
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Why Bangladesh disaster is a stark reminder Big Retail wishes to ignore
Firstpost
The factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed over 300 people this week is a stark reminder of the risks in the global retail industry's search for cheap production. But there have been few signs that safety issues and other questionable labor ...
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Firstpost
McDonald's CEO: Continues to See Soft Retail Environment -CNBC
NASDAQ
Chief Executive Don Thompson said on Friday he sees the soft retail environment continuing in the U.S. for a while longer, and that last year amid these conditions he was not satisfied with McDonald's Corp. ( MCD ) product pipeline. The company is ...
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J.C. Penny close to securing $1.75B loan
UPI.com
Earlier in the week, investor George Soros said his investment company Soros Fund Management LLC had bought 7.91 percent of the retail company. That vote of confidence helped the store's stock value, which rose 11.5 percent on Friday to $17 per share, ...
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UPI.com
Road to better working conditions in Third World countries can start in Metro ...
Vancouver Sun
The chain between a clothing manufacturer in the Third World and a retail store in Vancouver can be so convoluted and complex that no legal connection exists between the two, she said. "Often companies will say the clothing is subcontracted and they ...
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Vancouver Sun
San Diego To Consider Ban On Retail Sale Of Animals
Patch.com
A proposal has been made to amend the municipal code to make it "unlawful for any person to display, offer for sale, deliver, barter, auction, give away, transfer or sell any live dog, cat or rabbit in any pet shop, retail business or other commercial ...
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Sole bidder in lottery privatization plan will expand retail outlets ...
NorthJersey.com
According to the documents, Northstar plans to increase revenue by finding new lottery retailers, developing new games and expanding two types of lottery products – draw games and instant games. The company has promised to increase lottery profits by ...
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Research and Markets: Food Retail Industry in Canada - Porter's Five Forces ...
Fort Mills Times
There is a growing market for food products in Canada. The Canadian non-traditional retail grocery sector is growing and food is a significant factor in the expansion of the sector. Driving this expansion is the time-pressed consumer in search of ...
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Amazon eyes TV venture after profit fall
Scotsman
ONLINE retailer Amazon has reported a dip in profits as the cost of investing in new projects offsets a rise in quarterly sales. The maker of Kindle electronic reading devices earned $82 million (£53.3m) in the first quarter of the year, down 37 per ...
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Canadian Retailers Fighting Two-Front War, Capital Economics Says
Wall Street Journal
U.S. retailers are increasingly setting up shop in Canada, adding new competitive pressures to the domestic shopping scene. Canadians, meanwhile, have slowed their overall shopping habit, and when they do shop, increasingly, they're doing it south of ...
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The Hidden Agenda Behind Retail Investment Proprietary Products - Wall Street Pit
Wall Street Pit
I despise proprietary investment products. These are investment securities specific to one brokerage, usually created by its investment bank or wholesale asset management arm. They've been around for years and need to go away. Like mutual funds, they ...
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Peru's booming retail sector catches Wal-Mart's eye -sources
Globe and Mail
... of investment is outside the capital. Por Omar Mariluz. LIMA, April 26 (Reuters) - Peru's fast-growing retail sector, which is now dominated by Chilean companies, is drawing the interest of global chains such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc , industry ...
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Abu Dhabi overtakes Dubai as top city for new shopping malls
Al-Arabiya
"Both cities have seen huge growth in their retail economies due in part to the boom in shopping centre development but also to the rapidly expanding tourist industry. More recently, new shopping centres have become larger with leisure attractions ...
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Fashion retailer New Look reveals £800m fundraising to address debt pile
Retail Week
If completed the fashion retailer will use the cash to repay all debt under existing senior facilities and a mezzanine facility. It will also pay related accrued interest and break-costs a cash consideration related to existing payment-in-kind facility ...
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The "Internet of Everything" Will Take the Retail Experience Beyond Store Walls
BizTech Magazine
Apps move from performing cross-brand product comparisons to enabling customers to determine where to find items based on criteria they set, including best price, product ratings, and the most convenient retail location to shop (automatically taking ...
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News on the Leading Edge of Fashion Retailing From the 2013 Customer ...
About - News & Issues
When Nordstrom was named the 2013 Customer Favorite Retail Chain for Fashion and Apparel Shopping, it was proof that you can't judge the success of a U.S. fashion retailer by sales alone. Nordstrom beat out much larger fashion chains like Kohl's (KSS), ...
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Report: Retail listing exposes Call of Duty: Ghosts - Blast
Blast
IGN caused a stir this week when it reported that the website for European retailer Tesco had a listing on its website for Call of Duty: Ghosts, an as of yet unofficial game from Activision's huge shooter series. The listing, which has since been taken ...
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Starbucks looks to loyalty, retail products for growth
Nation's Restaurant News
"Anyone suggesting in 2008 or 2009 that Starbucks U.S. retail store portfolio was approaching market saturation was just flat out wrong," said Schultz, noting that stores open in the past few years are among the best performing in the company's history.
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Fund managers trade too much. Retail investors can learn not to
The Economist
CALL it hyperactivity, call it the temptation to fiddle. Chief executives have a tendency to make acquisitions just to show they are doing something. Similarly, fund managers, sitting at their desks all day, have the urge to trade. Otherwise why go ...
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