Government's push of e-commerce in rural areas will stimulate online fresh food sales A government-backed drive toward e-commerce can help open up the agricultural sector and generate a rapid increase in incomes for farmers. At a ...
Tags: E-Commerce, Farming, Agricultural
Industrial restructuring, growth in services good indicators of improving conditions, say experts Positive signs have started to emerge in China's economy since the second quarter, suggesting deepened industrial restructuring amid rapid ...
Tags: Industrial restructuring, Positive signs, China's economy
House of Fraser has updated the market on the performance of its parent company, Highland Group Holdings, for the 53 weeks to 31st January 2015. The retailer has announced record sales, up 5.8% on a like-for-like 52 week basis (excluding ...
Tags: House of Fraser, Furniture
A market study by global information company, The NPD Group has found that New York and Los Angeles are the largest US markets in terms of apparel sales, but smaller markets such as Orlando and Washington, D.C. are the top markets driving ...
Tags: US Markets, NPD Group, apparel sales
In 2014, Spanish apparel brand Mango clocked revenues of €2.01 billion, up 9.3 per cent over 2013, with 82 per cent of sales coming from overseas markets and the rest from Spain. Online turnover now accounts for 9.1 per cent of ...
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The revenue of China's logistics sector rose 6.9 percent year on year in 2014, driven by the online retail sales boom, new data showed on Friday. The total revenue of the sector topped 7.1 trillion yuan ($1.16 trillion) last year, ...
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"In the UK, our strategy of reducing promotional and discount activity and returning to being a full-price retailer has continued to stabilise margin." Mothercare has reported a 5.1 per cent increase in UK like-for-like sales for Q4 2014. ...
Tags: Mothercare, Like-for-Like Sales
UK retail sales increased by 3.2% on a like-for-like basis from March 2014, when they had decreased 1.7% on the preceding year. On a total basis, sales were up 4.7%, against a 0.3% fall in March 2014. Adjusted for the BRC-Nielsen Shop Price ...
Tags: UK retail sales, retail sales
According to Nielsen's tracking data for more than 1,100 hypermarkets that covers a total of 22 key cities across China, in off-trade channels, the Baijiu market, after an inhibitory decline, got warm again in 2014, when the sales of Baijiu ...
China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce has issued new guidelines to protect the rights of consumers who purchase goods online. Chinese authorities do not require C2C traders to register with local business administration ...
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Online retail apparel sales in India are likely to reach annual turnover of US$ 35 billion by 2020, said Google India director (Ecommerce and Online) Nitin Bawankule, at an event in Mumbai. “By 2020, India is expected to ...
China's State Council has given approval for Hangzhou, an e-commerce hub, to set up the country's first cross-border e-commerce pilot zone, according to a statement released on Thursday. Hangzhou, capital city of East China's ...
US-based Baristas Coffee Company has completed development on their retail grocery product line of single serve K-Cups, a plastic container with a coffee filter inside. Initially, the K-Cups product line is rolling out with the Baristas ...
Tags: K-Cups product, White Coffee, Packaging
Toy sales in the sector’s five largest European markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK) grew by 4% in 2014, according to market research company the NPD Group. Toy Industries of Europe’s (TIE) Director General, ...
It's the dead of winter. Delivery man Liu Jia and his colleagues start the day when most of people are still asleep. Working at a distribution point of a shopping website in Shanghai, they promise to deliver products within three hours of ...
Tags: Online Shopping, snacks