With the crucial 27-day, traditional Holiday season upon us, which will start for many retailers and shoppers after Mom puts away the last of the pie on Thanksgiving night, Planalytics is forecasting warmer and drier readings than in 2013 ...
Tags: Seasonal Demand, Sporting Goods
China's consumer economy is growing rapidly, and more and more e-commerce companies are joining every year to celebrate the Double 11 festival. Brick and mortar retail outlets are even capitalizing on the festivities with plans to create a ...
Tags: Double 11 Day, e-commerce
Sorel opened its first-ever seasonal branded retail store at 345 W. 14th St. in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. The new store will open on October 30 and offer Sorel’s extensive range of stylish, protective fall and winter ...
Tags: Sorel, Pop-up Store, Sporting Goods
Electronics purchases are a popular choice among American buyers, with three out of four reporting plans for spending in the coming year. Online outlets and brick-and-mortar sellers both remain popular choices, but those that flock to ...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Android devices, Electronics
More Canadians will turn to the Internet for presents this holiday season, according to a report from Solutions Research Group. Based on 1,000 interviews with Canadians, the report found that 65 percent of Canadians have bought something ...
Tags: mobile phones, Online Shopping
Amazon.com, one of the leading online retailers of the world, is set to create 80,000 seasonal job opportunities across its US network of fulfillment and sortation centers in this holiday season to meet increasing customer demand. Mike ...
Tags: Amazon, Opportunities, Accessories
The FlipKart Diwali offer in which consumers could not access juicy deals, due to massive response and in turn and led to jamming the online retailer’s website, should not be used as a ploy to over-regulate the fledgling ecommerce ...
Reliance Brands, a division of Reliance Industries Ltd will launch casual luxury lifestyle brand, Juicy Couture in India in the second half of 2015. Under the partnership, Reliance Brands will open 20 Juicy Couture single brand stores in ...
Tags: Reliance Brands, Juicy Couture, Accessories
The Shullman Research Center found that 21 percent of U.S. adults who plan Christmas shopping expect to purchase jewelry this year; however, the percentage increases dramatically for the top 41 percent of households, or those earning ...
Tags: Christmas Jewelry, Crafts
Blue Nile is being challenged by rising diamond prices, forcing the online jeweler to seek out growth in other areas. As diamond prices rise, eroding Blue Nile’s competitive advantage that its lower online prices offer, consumers will ...
Tags: diamond market, Blue Nile
While the U.S. e-commerce market across the board continues to grow faster than brick-and-mortar retailing, the biggest players in e-commerce are growing at a significantly faster rate than their smaller counterparts as they are able to ...
Tags: e-commerce market, Sporting Goods
The holiday forcast from Deloitte estimates total holiday sales in the $981-986 million range for the Nov.-Jan. timeframe, a moderate improvement from the 2.8% gain generated during the 2013 season. Deloitte is also forcasting a 13.5-14.0% ...
Tags: holiday sales, shopping visits
Recent soft economic data including falling property prices have many investors worried about a growth slowdown in China, but Platinum Asset Management sees plenty of investment opportunities. The funds manager said in a note to investors ...
Tags: China Economy
Arvind Ltd, a vertically integrated textile player, which also markets various apparel brands, has launched an online custom clothing brand – Creyate. Creyate, which is a multichannel concept, will also be available in exclusive brick ...
The National Retail Federation (NRF) is supporting the Marketplace and Internet Tax Freedom Act. The legislation was introduced by Senators Michael Enzi, Richard Durbin, Lamar Alexander, Heidi Heitkamp, Susan Collins and Mark Pryor. The ...
Tags: NRF, Marketplace, Sporting Goods