Sales of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys are continuing to soar. It's been named the number one new toy property in the UK in NPD's March retail sales data, in terms of value sales. Flair's action figures are also the third-placed ...
Don't blame Windows 8 for plummeting PC sales, a retail analyst said today. "It wasn't about Windows 8, it was much more about the price challenges facing OEMs," said Stephen Baker of the NPD Group, citing U.S. retail sales data the firm ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Windows 8, apple
Leisure Trends Group will present a webinar Thursday that will include 2012 retail sales data and a look at emerging product categories, including new technologies. LTG retail analyst JJ Rudman?will present cycling retail sales data drawn ...
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The Australian dollar was trading just below its two-month high late today after government data showed retail sales surged again in February. Retail sales rose a seasonally adjusted 1.3 per cent in February from January, when they rose ...
The Australian sharemarket had its strongest day in almost two weeks yesterday, outstripping minor gains on Wall Street as strength in healthcare stocks, banks, telecommunications and consumer discretionary companies offset a drop among ...
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The Australian sharemarket closed higher, following an afternoon run on the back of economic data from China showing exports rose by 14.1 per cent. At the close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 14.9 points, or 0.32 per cent higher at ...
Tags: Shares, China exports, sharemarket, Ordinaries index
The sharemarket ended a three-day losing streak yesterday as the latest earnings results from US aluminium giant Alcoa reassured investors in the resources-heavy domestic bourse, with high-yield and defensive sectors of the market well bid. ...
Tags: aluminium, Alcoa, market well bid, aluminium market
BOULDER, CO (BRAIN) — Leisure Trends Group and the National Sporting Goods Association have reached an agreement that will provide NSGA members with access to retail sales data from Leisure Trends' Sporting Goods RetailTRAK program. ...
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Retail sales in November, which are typically viewed as the beginning of the holiday shopping season, showed a solid performance with annual and sequential gains, according to data released today by the United States Department of Commerce ...
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This week's research round-up includes a clutch of reports looking at consumer trends in the French dairy market and baby food in China. BABY FOOD China Infant Formula and Care Product Industry Report, 2011-2012 The report analyses ...
Tags: Consumer Trends, Dairy, Baby Food
October retail sales data released this week by the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation (NRF) were down sequentially and up annually. The Department of Commerce reported that October retail sales at ...
Tags: commerce, NRF, October retail sale
Computerworld-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today said that the company had sold 4 million upgrades to Windows 8 since Friday,when the discounted deals kicked off. "In just the last three days,we have sold 4 million Windows 8 ...
CEMENT sales volumes rose by 6, 7% year on year (y/y) to 2, 637-million tons in the first quarter of 2012, data released by the Cement and Concrete Institute (C&CI) on Monday showed. This compared with a 3, 3% rise in 2011 and a 7, 8% fall ...
Tags: market view, cement
The French gardening industry has experienced exceptional results so far this year. Spring 2011, which was the warmest and driest of the last 50 years, has boosted all garden segments and the overall market increased both in volume and ...
Tags: gardening industry, Hardware, Tools