U.S. chain-store sales rose 2.2 percent year on year for the week that ended on December 27 and included the final shopping days before Christmas, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and Goldman Sachs. ...
Overall, retail sales during the Black Friday to Christmas Eve period excluding automotive sales increased 5.5 percent in 2014, according to Mastercard Spendingpulse’s initial view on the 2014 U.S. holiday shopping season. The ...
Published annually, the Statistics Digest is compiled using the latest available data sourced from a range of websites. Dr. Peter Beele, Technical Services Manager for FIRA International and author of the publication, said: ...
Tags: Furniture Industry, websites, Furniture
In spite of ecommerce making significant progress in the last few years, it will account for only 5.9 per cent of the total retail market worldwide in 2014, forecasts eMarketer. In its first-ever forecast of the global retail market ...
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Holiday sales as compared to overall annual retail sales have been trending downward for about a decade. Holiday sales in 2013, at $663.5 billion, were 18.7 percent of overall retail sales, well below the peak of 19.6 percent seen in 2004. ...
Tags: Gifts, Shoppers, Sporting Goods
U.S. jewelry and watch sales across all channels rose a preliminary 1.4 percent year on year in November, the month that marks the beginning of the Christmas-shopping season. While the increase was disappointing, compared with the ...
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today announced it will produce the 2015 International CES Asia scheduled to run May 25-27 in Shanghai, China. This inaugural event will take place at the Shanghai New International Expo ...
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Driven by UK sales but let down by international sales, online fashion retailer, ASOS managed to post a sales growth of 8 per cent year on year in the three months ending November 30, 2014. Although international sales dropped by 2 per ...
Tags: online fashion retailer, trading, Apparel
Footfall in November was 2.4% down on a year ago, down on the 0.8% fall in October and below the three-month average of a 1.4% decline, reports the latest BRC/Springboard Footfall Monitor, which covers the four weeks to 29th November 2014. ...
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According to the data from US Commerce Department, US retail sales keeps growing in November due to the rebound of auto sales in the US. The data says that US retail sales increases 0.7% to $44.93 billion. The growth rate of retail sales ...
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Specialty jewelry store sales in the U.S. fell 3.9 percent year on year to $2.37 billion in October. The sharp drop was not as obvious in the preliminary jewelry and watch sales total during the month, which Rapaport News reported on ...
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Online sales of Non-Food products in the UK grew 12.0% in November versus a year earlier. In November 2013, online sales rose by 16.0% over the previous year. In November online sales represented 21.0% of total Non-Food sales of the ...
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The National Retail Federation (NRF) recently released a statement that says that retail industry employment increased by 37,000 jobs in November. Gains were posted in most retail categories, including 11,300 in clothing and clothing ...
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China's imports shrank unexpectedly in November while export growth slowed, fuelling concerns that the world's second-largest economy could be facing a sharper slowdown and adding pressure on policymakers to ramp up stimulus measures. ...
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It is self-evident that stationery industry in China has great potential, there is news points out that the stationery consumption will keep more than 10% year-on-year growth, growth are significantly higher than the current total retail ...