Food Standard Scotland (FSS) is considering a package of measures to tackle advertising, promotion and potion size of certain foods and drinks, which would be considered for taxation and regulation in order to improve Scottish diet. ...
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The annual 2014 Specsavers everywoman in Retail Ambassadors have recently been announced at a ceremony in central London attended by Dame Mary Perkins and several hundred leading business figures representing over 50 retail brands. Twelve ...
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American consumers powered through the winter weather lifting retail sales in February. According to the National Retail Federation – the world's largest retail trade association – February retail sales, which exclude ...
Tags: Retail Sales, Apparel, Building material, garden equipment
Anta Sports Products Ltd. reported revenues declined 4.5 percent in its year ended Dec. 31, to 7.281 billion yuan ($1.18 billion) compared with 7.622 billion yuan in 2012. Net profit slid 3.2 percent in the same period to 1.314 billion ...
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The 11th edition of the AFGC CHEP Retail Index suggests that retailers may be in for a challenging trading period this Christmas, with year-on-year growth in retail sales slowing and a turn-around not expected in the remaining months of ...
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Manthan, the global leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions for retailers, announced the successful rollout of ARC Merchandise Analytics, a solution exclusively designed to deliver real-time merchandise and performance ...
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The Australian dollar has remained below parity with the greenback as healthy American retail data underpinned strength in the US currency. At 12pm AEST today the dollar was trading at 99.77 cents, down almost a quarter of a US cent from ...
Tags: Australian Dollar, Retail Data
Retail Velocity, a leader of demand signal repository and retail execution solutions, announced the release of its Velocity Demand Data Streaming Service that will support SAP Demand Signal Management (DSiM), an SAP HANA application. ...
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Vendor Managed Technologies, Inc. (VMT) DBA Retail Velocity, a leader of “Big Data” retail demand sensing and retail execution solutions, was again honored by Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) readers as a leading demand data ...
Continuing its 19 year track record of innovation and solid growth, Vendor Managed Technologies, Inc. (VMT) announced that it will now be known as Retail Velocity. “The recent upsurge in the demand for our Velocity Solution Suite ...
More companies are complaining of unfair competition from Amazon Web Services (AWS), suggesting that Amazon has created AWS-based services similar to their own, pricing them aggressively in a bid to win market share. The claims come less ...
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The Australian sharemarket roared back yesterday, recovering most of its 75-point loss on Monday, after a US Federal Reserve official reiterated the central bank's commitment to quantitative easing, local retail sales exceeded expectations ...
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The Australian dollar has continued to gain ground after the release of better-than-expected retail spending figures. At 6.30am AEDT the local unit was trading at 102.54 US cents, up from 102.44 cents at yesterday’s local close. ...
The Pathway School, an educational facility for students with complex learning disabilities, recently received a gift of electrical equipment donated by Orbit Industries, a manufacturer of electrical installation products. The donation ...
The Australian dollar has pushed back above $US1.05, despite the release of weaker-than-expected retail spending figures. At 5pm AEDT, the dollar was trading at $US105.08, up US0.26c. Easy Forex currency dealer Francisco Solar said the ...