Wednesday, May 15, 2013

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Retail sales inch up 0.1 percent in April
Spartanburg Herald Journal
Clothing is modeled on mannequins in a retail store's window display on April 24 in Baltimore. Falling gas prices, a rallying stock market and gains in the job market all fueled Americans' shopping habits even as cold weather tempered their desire to ...
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Indian retail firm among most impactful in Arab World
Business Standard
UAE-based Indian retail firm LuLu group has been ranked in the top 100 companies 'making an impact in the Arab world', the only Indian firm to do so. It was announced yesterday at an event in Abu Dhabi to list the Forbes Top 500 companies in the Arab ...
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Retail import growth expected to slow significantly over summer
The Trucker
WASHINGTON – Import volume at the nation's major retail container ports is expected to increase 3.3 percent in May over the same month last year but growth could trickle to a standstill by the end of the summer, according to the monthly Global Port ...
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Promotions, weddings prop up retailers' same store sales in Q4
Business Standard
The value retailing business of Future Retail, which comprises of Big Bazaar, Food Bazaar and others, saw same store sales growth of 8.1 % in March quarter of FY 2013, compared to 2.7 % in the March quarter of FY 12 and 3.1 % in December 2012 quarter.
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Wanting to start retail biz in India for 6 years: Ikea CEO
Firstpost
In just over 10 months, Swedish furniture major Ikea got the go ahead to set up stores across India with a phased investment of Rs 10,500 crore. While the process was delayed, its entry has been closely watched as a test case for how a large foreign ...
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S. Africa Retail Sales Slow in March on Inflation, Jobless Rate
Businessweek
South African retail-sales growth slowed in March from a year earlier as inflation remained close to the top of the central bank's target and a 25 percent jobless rate hurt consumer spending. Retail sales rose 2.8 percent from a revised 3.9 percent in ...
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India's fashion retail landscape in transition
FashionUnited India
The theme of the Convention focused on retail, but the organisers did a very good job demonstrating the strong interconnection between fashion retailing, branding and manufacturing. As a side note; this connection is not always seen clearly by policy ...
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PayPal rival Square launches credit card reader in retail expansion
Times of India
SAN FRANCISCO: Square, a closely watched payment-processing company, made a significant push into the hardware business on Tuesday, unveiling a new credit card reader that it claimed could be the centrepiece of the next-generation checkout counter.
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UK 'future-retail' delegation to visit to Israel - Fresh Business Thinking
Fresh Business Thinking
Some of the UK's largest retail companies, ranging from high-street supermarket chains to internationally-renowned luxury brands, will be accompanying Mr Silva to experience the wide range of cutting-edge retail-technologies that are on offer in Israel ...
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Hong Kong in a retail rent league of its own - Property Magazine International
Property Magazine International
Hong Kong continues to rank as the world's most expensive global retail market, recording prime rents nearly 150 percent higher than New York and more than 400 percent higher than London and Paris, according to new research from CBRE Group.
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Port Logistics Group Expands City of Industry Retail Distribution Campus in ...
Sacramento Bee
HOUSTON, May 14, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Port Logistics Group, the nation's leading provider of gateway logistics services, today announced it has added more than 1.1 million square feet of warehouse space to its City of Industry, CA Retail ...
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Millcreek panel recommends plans for 2 retail stores
GoErie.com
One retail store will be 50,009 square feet and will be located behind the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant and in front of the SpringHill Suites Hotel. That had been the proposed site for a Cabela's Outpost store that generated buzz until the deal ...
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Retail Sales Has Another off Week
HispanicBusiness.com
U.S. retail receipts slipped for the second consecutive week, the International Council of Shopping Centers reported Tuesday. The ICSC-Goldman Sachs weekly sales report said sales receipts were off 2 percent in the week ending Saturday, after dropping ...
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H&M-Inditex Joining Bangladesh Pact Pressures Wal-Mart: Retail
Businessweek
After Hennes & Mauritz AB (HMB) and Inditex SA (ITX), Europe's two largest clothing retailers, committed to an agreement to improve fire and building safety in Bangladesh, pressure is mounting on U.S. retailers to sign the pact. The European companies ...
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