The State Council, China's cabinet, has promised policies to boost e-commerce, including through cutting red tape and liberalizing investment rules covering a sector it recognizes as very important to the economy. E-commerce is ...
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According to Nielsen's tracking data for more than 1,100 hypermarkets that covers a total of 22 key cities across China, in off-trade channels, the Baijiu market, after an inhibitory decline, got warm again in 2014, when the sales of Baijiu ...
Of the cross section polled, the majority said that they were more positive about their own personal finances and the state of the economy than they were in February. Consumer confidence is at its highest level for 13 years, according to ...
From Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Minions to Bing! and The Clangers, our Retail Advisory Panel believes that strong film and TV licenses will help the industry to another successful year. Growing consumer confidence and the ...
Tags: Minions, Star Wars:The Force Awakens, Toys
China is toughening its examination of milk powder imported from New Zealand, according to the quality control watchdog, after revelations emerged on Tuesday of a criminal threat to contaminate some products with an agricultural poison. ...
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Footfall in January was 1.2% lower than a year ago, down on the 0.7% fall in December. Shopping centres reported the largest decline, falling 2.8%, while high streets experienced a 1.6% decline in footfall, up on the 1.8% fall in December. ...
Tags: Consumer Confidence, Footfall
Consumer confidence in Australia is fuelling the rise of ‘savvy shopping’, according to findings from market research organisation Nielsen. Nielsen said Australian consumers were optimistic about their buying habits over the ...
After a stronger-than-expected Christmas trading period, retail spending growth will slow heading into 2015, according to the sixteenth edition of the AFGC CHEP Retail Index released late last week. The AFGC CHEP Retail Index is a ...
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The University of Michigan preliminary consumer sentiment index for January rose to an 11-year high of 98.2, helped by a strengthening job market and lower fuel costs. The preliminary reading was the highest since January 2004, and up ...
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Supermarket dumping of cage eggs could result in egg shortages Egg producers have continued to express concerns about the impact on Australia’s egg industry of moves by supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths, and fast food chain ...
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UK retail sales declined by 0.4%, on a like-for-like basis from December 2013, when they had increased 0.4% on the preceding year, finds the latest BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor. On a total basis, sales were up 1%, against a 1.8% rise in ...
Tags: home categories, Furniture
Smart Lighting Simply Connected at CES 2015 In the past years, lighting has solidified its position as cornerstone of the smart home. With Philips Hue, OSRAM Lightify and GE Link, consumers experience increasing freedom of choice. The ...
The United States is set to become an even more dominant market for the diamond industry in 2015. In a reversal of trends that have characterized the industry in the past few years, there has been a shift back from east to west as industry ...
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The reduction of bank credit available to the diamond industry is a game changer that will influence the market for many years to come. Therefore, this column has chosen bank credit as its most important story of 2014, rising above other ...
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Russia's central bank failed to stem a further dramatic fall in the rouble on Thursday despite raising the headline interest rate to 10.5%. The central bank, which has used billions of dollars worth of foreign reserves in a desperate ...
Tags: Russia's Central Bank, ruble