Best Buy said declines in digital imaging, movies and MP3 players led a 1.5 percent dip in domestic holiday sales, to $9.8 billion for the nine weeks ending Jan. 4. The retailer also lowered its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
Tilly's, Inc., the action sports chain, reported that based on the results for the holiday period, it now expects fourth quarter results to be in the mid range of its previously communicated outlook for both comparable store sales and ...
Tags: Tilly, holiday period, comparable store sales, comparable store earnings
The global long steel products market has resumed business after the holiday period, as activity had stopped in many countries from the middle of December up to the first week of January, according to the short-range outlook report issued ...
Tags: Long Steel Market, Mineral
Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc. said fourth fiscal quarter comparable store sales through Jan. 4, (the "Holiday Period") were flat on a continuing operations basis, excluding online sales. The company stated that with the growing ...
Tags: Pacific Sunwear of California, comparable store sales, Holiday Period
Chain stores sales rose 3 percent for the November-December holiday period, compared to a 1.8 percent increase in 2012. According to a report by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), compiled from a tally of monthly ...
Tags: Chain stores, sales, rise, holiday period
US action sportswear retailer Pacific Sunwear of California has cut its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings outlook, citing a "choppy" holiday season. Comparable sales in the company's quarter ended 4 January were flat, the company said ...
Tags: Pacific Sunwear, Sunwear
Ever since reclaiming the 82 cents level about a month ago, the market has gone nowhere, closing the last 20 sessions in a very tight range of just 242 points, between 82.24 and 84.66 cents. The changes in the CFTC spec/hedge report tell ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Textile
The first Monday of the New Year is various known as massive Monday or Mega Monday as the volume of jobseekers soars after the Christmas/New Year break. In print and packaging we have seen a tripling of applications over the holiday ...
Tags: January Blues, Packaging News
Holiday sales were up for Costco, way up for Amazon.com's Marketplace sellers, and down for Barnes & Noble. Costco, the No. 1 warehouse club, today reported a 6 percent spike in December sales, to $11.5 billion, but continuing declines in ...
Tags: holiday sales, Costco, Amazon, Barnes&Noble, sales volume
Victoria Oil & Gas Plc, the emerging African energy utility company, today announces the signing of key customer agreements that places Cameroon operating subsidiary, Gaz du Cameroun (“GDC”), in a strong position to expand gas ...
The market tested and successfully held the important 82 cents support level when it briefly dipped to an intra-day low of 81.42 cents on December 23rd. By holding support the market managed to attract additional spec buying, which prompted ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Holiday Period, Cotton
XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium (di)selenide thin-film (CIGS) photovoltaic (TFPV) cell technologies and 'CIGSolar' manufacturing processes, has provided business development updates to its ...
Holiday sales of the core TV, PC, tablet and headphone categories rose 3.7 percent to $9.5 billion during the critical five weeks between Nov. 24 and Dec. 28, The NPD Group reported, compared to a year-ago rise of 1 percent. The ...
Tags: holiday sales, NPD Group, CE product, CE sales, Consumer Electronics
According to recent research, in-store holiday sales during December 2013 are expected to come out ahead of in-store holiday sales during the same month in the previous year. Retail analytics provider Euclid analyzed nearly 25 million ...
Tags: in-store holiday sales, Euclid, shopper traffic, window conversion
Euclid, the leader of in-store retail analytics, measured data on nearly 25 million domestic shopping sessions during December, revealing that shopper traffic and window conversion improved as heavy promotions kept holiday shoppers coming ...
Tags: Euclid, Consumer Traffic