UK retail sales values were up 1.5% on a like-for-like basis from September 2011, when they were up 0.3% on the preceding year. On a total basis, sales were up 3.4%, against a 2.5% rise in September 2011. The recovery from last month was ...
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Computerworld - Windows 8 has delivered no bump to flagging consumer PC sales in the U.S., a retail research analyst said today. "There wasn't any pop at all," said Steven Baker of the NPD Group. "The hope was that Windows 8 would shift ...
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dELiA*s Inc., a multi-channel retail company comprised of two lifestyle brands primarily targeting teenage girls and young women, announced the results for its third quarter of fiscal 2012. Third Quarter Fiscal 2012 Highlights: Total ...
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 ...
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Hibbett Sports Inc.,a sporting goods retailer,announced results for the third quarter ended October 27,2012. Third Quarter Results Net sales for the 13-week period ended October 27,2012,increased 9.6%to$202.9 million compared with$185.2 ...
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TORONTO --- Even though Sears Canada narrowed its net loss by almost half despite falling sales in the third quarter, its CEO said it's taking too long to implement his turnaround plan for the multi-channel retailer. Revenues for the 13 ...
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The campaign was Manchester-based APS Group's first dry food direct mail campaign and included the storage, packaging, packing and distribution of Nutri-Grain and Pop-Tarts, which are being re-launched. The products were distributed ...
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Sears Canada Inc.announced its unaudited third quarter results.Total revenues for the 13-week period ended October 27,2012 were$1,037.5 million compared to$1,113.2 million for the 13-week period ended October 29,2011,a decrease of 6.8%.Same ...
IDG News Service - Intel gained PC microprocessor market share over Advanced Micro Devices during the third quarter, but worldwide shipments of x86 chips declined at rates not seen in more than a decade, according to Mercury Research. ...
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The British Computing Society(BCS)has made the first draft of the reformed ICT curriculum available to the public. Available on the BCS website,the first draft has been unveiled to enable the BCS and the Royal Academy of ...
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Sports Direct International plc provides an update on current trading in advance of its half year end on 28 October 2012. Group total sales for the nine weeks ending 30 September 2012 were up 18.0%to£402.7m(2012:£341.3m)and ...
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KENT, Wash. --Thousands of Northwest foster children went back to school equipped for success this year, thanks to Sleep Country USA. The Kent-based mattress retailer collected 50,309 items in its annual School Supply Drive for Foster ...
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How can it be that a company clever enough to satisfy Apple’s famously stringent requirements can’t figure out how to keep its workers from killing themselves and hurting one another? Last week’s riot at a Foxconn ...
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HP has lost its title as the world's biggest PC vendor after new quarterly figures from analyst group Gartner showed that it had been overtaken by rival Lenovo. According to Gartner's figures,Lenovo edged ahead in the third quarter with a ...
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Staedtler's summer back-to-school (BTS) campaign includes a 30-second cinema commercial in 2D and 3D, digital panel advertising in-cinema and a national consumer promotion. The in-cinema campaign will commence on Boxing Day, the biggest ...
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