Thursday, May 02, 2013

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Super Retail Group lifts sales - Breaking News - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
AAP. Super Retail Group has lifted its sales for the financial year to date across its auto and sport divisions due to loyalty programs and better marketing. The company announced that comparable sales, which strips out store openings and closures, for ...
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Retailers act on safety code following Bangladesh factory collapse
Retail Week
The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), which is backed by retailers including Asda, Asos, Debenhams and Primark, has held an emergency meeting with relevant parties to draw up universal safety standards for trading with companies in Bangladesh. They ...
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Marketing's Influence in Retail IT Decisions Is Growing Sharply, According to ...
Wall Street Journal
The study, underwritten by premier sponsor CrossView and supporting sponsor Tata Consultancy Services, surveyed senior marketing and IT executives from leading retailers in North America. Findings reveal a stronger than expected bond between these ...
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Home Retail sells Irish stake in Homestore + More for €13m
Irish Independent
Home Retail chief executive Terry Duddy said that its Argos chain delivered like-for-like sales growth for the first time in five years in the last financial year. Its profits rose 6.4pc to £100.3m (€118.1m). At Homebase, operating profit slumped 52pc ...
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Home Retail Group Reports Lower Profits
Motley Fool
LONDON -- Home Retail Group (LSE: HOME ) -- the owner of Argos and Homebase -- this morning published its full-year results for the 52 weeks to March 2, 2013. Sales were reported as essentially flat, at 5,475 million pounds, but underlying pre-tax ...
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Plan for new city retail group rapped
Windsor Star (blog)
A proposal by Mayor Eddie Francis to establish a municipal Retail Development Corporation has met with harsh criticism from a downtown business group, which claims in a memo that it amounts to Soviet-style economic planning. "The RDC will be formed to ...
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Windsor Star (blog)
SC dismisses case against FDI in multi-brand retail
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Saying it saw nothing wrong with a policy that seeks to do away with middlemen, the Supreme Court threw out a case challenging the decision to throw open the multi-brand retail sector on Wednesday, in a big relief to the government which has ...
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Retail's glitz too hard to pass up
Times Record News
John Ingle/Times Record News Sunday Abubakar is one of Wichita Falls' newest and youngest business owners. The 23-year-old Nigerian bought Glitter Bug and Bling in late 2012 and is looking to grow and possibly expand his women-focused retail store.
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NRF Foundation launches 'Retail Insight Center'
Fibre2fashion.com
The NRF Foundation, the careers and education division of the National Retail Federation, announced the launch of its new Retail Insight Center, a website designed to serve as a resource for researching industry, government, economic and consumer ...
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Analysis: Retailer collaboration is the key to supply chain success
Retail Week
After years of what could sometimes be described as an adversarial relationship, with retailers and suppliers pitted against each other in the battle to maintain margins, a more collaborative approach is starting to emerge as a result of the problems.
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Britain's Home Retail reports fifth straight annual profit fall
China Post
LONDON--Home Retail, Britain's biggest household goods retailer, posted a fifth straight fall in annual profit, as its customers continued to bear the brunt of the economic downturn. The owner of Argos stores and the Homebase DIY chain said on ...
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