Gap Inc. has decided to close its Piperlime brand, including the online platform and single store in New York, by the end of the first quarter of fiscal year 2015. The company is committed to executing against its long-term strategy of ...
Sports Authority appointed Ron Stoupa as executive vice president and chief marketing officer. In his new role, Stoupa will be responsible for leading the strategic development and oversight of the company’s marketing plans to further ...
Tags: Sports Authority, Sporting Goods
Print and visual communications specialist Callprint has announced the recruitment of Andy Phillips, who will join the new team at Jupiter Visual Communications, part of the Callprint group, where he will take on the role of Regional ...
Tags: lighting solutions, retail businesses, Office Supplies
One of the largest sofa manufacturers in the country, Buoyant Upholstery, has joined the Furniture Industry Research Association. Based in Nelson, Lancashire, Buoyant employs over 600 people and produces in excess of 2000 suites every ...
According to The Telegraph, ScS is preparing to return to the London stock market this week with a listing valuing the business at £70m. According to the newspaper, the retailer did formally announce its flotation, instead quietly ...
Tags: price shares, flooring offering, Furniture
DFS is to target a valuation of between £600m and £1b in a long-awaited London stock market listing on 4th February that will include a substantial offering to retail investors, according to Sky News. The company is owned by ...
Tags: stock market, retail investors, Furniture
Riaz Ahmed, owner and MD of Lancashire bed and furniture manufacturer Sweet Dreams, was invited to visit Chancellor Rt Hon George Osborne MP last week to discuss how to promote business in the north with other major employers and ...
German trade fair duo imm cologne and LivingKitchen closed on Sunday, recording 146,000 visitors from 138 countries – among them 102,000 industry visitors, up from 99,000 in 2013. “These figures prove that the international ...
Tags: imm cologne, Kitchens, Furnishing Retailers, Furniture
Video features products spanning Bandai’s range of Big Hero 6 products, the world’s first ever voice controlled drone, Spin Master’s Meccanoid and bike/scooter/skateboard hybrid, Sbyke. The ToyTesters.tv team has created ...
Tags: skateboard hybrid, toy companies, Toys
m4e secures deal with firm covering Europe, CIS, Middle East and North Africa. Simba Dickie Group is adding to its licensed portfolio, securing the master toy rights for CGI series Wissper from m4e. The agreement covers Europe, CIS, ...
Dick's Sporting Goods will be opening its 39th store in California and 604th store nationwide on Friday, Feb. 6 at Coddingtown Mall in Santa Rosa, CA (1975 Cleveland Avenue). Dick's three-day grand opening celebration will run through ...
Tags: Dry T-Shirt, Sporting Goods
Entertainment One has been working closely with Brazilian custom officers to intercept fake goods at three separate ports across the country. An estimated one million counterfeit Peppa Pig toys have been seized by custom officers across ...
Tags: fake goods, counterfeit toys, Toys
NEMA’s Lighting Systems Index increased 1.9 percent from the second to the third quarters of 2014, climbing to its highest level to date in calendar year 2014. The index posted a gain of 4.1 percent on a year-over-year basis. ...
Tags: Lighting Systems, miniature lamps, Lights
ProPhotonix Ltd of Salem, NH, USA, a designer and manufacturer of laser diode modules and LED illumination systems for OEMs and medical equipment companies (as well as a distributor of laser diodes for Panasonic, Ushio, Osram, QSI, and ...
Tags: Laser Diode Module, LED illumination systems, Electrical
Matt Smith has accepted the position of western division sales manager for EarthWerks luxury vinyl tile (LVT). “With the substantial growth we have had nationwide, we see the need to increase our personnel to the EarthWerks LVT ...
Tags: luxury vinyl tile, Construction