In-store and TV drive set to bolster Stack-a-Bubble throughout Easter period and again in May. Character Option's new bubble brand, Stack-A-Bubble, is set to make waves in-store with a high visibility campaign both at point of sale and on ...
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Colorado Ski Country USA (CSCUSA) reported early season skier visits at its 21 member resorts were approximately one percent off last year’s strong pace. The report covers visits between Opening Day (Oct. 17, 2014) through Dec. 31, ...
Tags: Ski, warm drinks, Sporting Goods
Campbell Soup Company today reported its fourth-quarter and full-year results for fiscal 2014. The company reported earnings from continuing operations for the quarter ended Aug. 3, 2014, of $137 million, or $0.43 per share, compared with ...
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Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation, a leading sporting goods retailer, reported financial results for the fiscal 2014 second quarter ended June 29, 2014. For the fiscal 2014 second quarter, net sales were $231.2 million, compared to net ...
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Gross steel production at Spanish plants was likely 1.2 million mt in April, a decrease of 9.3% year on year weighed down by the Easter holiday effect, Union de Empresas Siderurgicas, or UNESID, said in a note late Tuesday. The figure is ...
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Smithfield Foods, Inc., a wholly owned independent subsidiary of WH Group Limited, reported record 2014 first quarter results. All comparisons are to the first quarter of 2013. Sales for the first quarter of 2014 were $3.4 billion, up 3%. ...
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J. C. Penney Company, Inc. announced financial results for its first quarter ended May 3, 2014. First Quarter Highlights: -Same store sales increase 6.2%, exceeding guidance; second consecutive quarter of growth -Gross margin ...
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British Retail Consortium releases online retail sales monitor figures for April 2014. BRC-KPMG Non-Food Retail Sales Year-on-Year Growth: Clothing In contrast with March, the fashion categories growth were negatively affected by ...
Tags: Online Garment, Online sales
Euclid, the leader of in-store retail analytics, releases its monthly retail benchmarks report to analyze shopper activity and behavior during the month of April. This month’s report measured data from tens of millions of domestic ...
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Online sales of non-food products in the UK grew 11.2% in April versus a year earlier. In April 2013, they had increased by 6.3% over the previous year. In April, online sales represented 16.1% of total non-food sales of the BRC's ...
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Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation, a leading sporting goods retailer, reported financial results for the fiscal 2014 first quarter ended March 30, 2014. For the fiscal 2014 first quarter, net sales were $231.3 million, compared to net ...
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Crocs, Inc. reported earnings tumbled 78.0 percent in the first quarter, to $6.4 million, or 6 cents a share, from $29.0 million, or 33 cents, a year ago. Revenues inched up 0.2 percent to $312.4 million as strong gains in the Asia-Pacific ...
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Big 5 Sporting Goods reported that for the fiscal 2014 first quarter, net sales were $231.3 million, compared to net sales of $246.3 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2013. Same store sales declined 7.9 percent for the first quarter ...
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Gas prices on the Dutch and German trading hubs drifted lower Tuesday morning, as bearish weather and supply fundamentals from just before the four-day Easter holiday continued to drive the markets. At midday London time, the day-ahead ...
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Scrap exporters have lowered buying prices at their terminals along the US East Coast since last week, as market sources said they are likely preparing for lower-priced sales when Turkish mills return to the market later this week. One ...
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