With mixed emotions and expectations, retailers jumped into the Thanksgiving shopping weekend with Black Friday sales promotions that saw equally uneven results. Sid's Bikes NYC's Eastside Manhattan store entered the Black Friday fray for ...
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TAICHUNG, Taiwan (BRAIN) — The industry's major bike makers sent product managers to the heart of Taiwan's manufacturing area this week to consider products for complete bikes that bike shops won't see until later 2013 or later. In ...
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I mentioned last time the debate at BLC and beyond: Are flat bike sales for the past 35 years a good thing or a bad thing? Well, I'm a good-thing, glass-half-full kinda guy, as those who know me would confirm. There are SO many positive ...
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Morrisons appears to be upping its game after its"very disappointing"third quarter,according to Shore Capital analysts Clive Black and Darren Shirley. Black and Shirley's comments followed the latest Nielsen report on supermarkets'market ...
November 21, 2012 - Fusetek general manager Malcolm Bird announced that Randy Fillmore will step into the role of national sales manager starting January 3, 2013. Randy has been Fusetek’s Ontario sales manager for the last several ...
Ohio-based Great American Insurance(GAIC)has appointed Casey Connor as the new divisional vice president of marketing for its Specialty Human Services Division. According to the company,Connor will be responsible for coordinating overall ...
US retailer Roundy's Inc said a "more challenging economic and competitive environment" affected results in the third quarter as profits fell. Earnings in the three months ended 1 October amounted to US$8.8m compared to $12.4m a year ...
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BAC Sag & Hyvleri filed for bankruptcy at the responsible district court in Luleå. In an interview with the Swedish press, managing director Gosta Gustavsson said the situation was due principally to a decline in sales figures. On ...
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Apple has blamed rumours about the iPad Mini for lower-than-expected sales in its fiscal fourth quarter. The profits of $8.2bn (£5.1bn) are slightly lower than analysts expected, but up on the $6.6bn (£4.1bn) the firm made in ...
STANLEYTOWN, Va. --Stanley Furniture reported an 8% decline in third quarter sales from the same period a year ago, which the company attributed to decreased sales in its Young America youth furniture line. The company posted a loss of ...
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Growing demand from emerging markets drove an increase in sales during the first nine months of the year,Swiss flavours and fragrances group Givaudan has indicated. The company booked an 8.8%increase in sales during the period,which rose ...
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Taipei,Oct.12,2012(CENS)--The market for electric scooters(e-scooters)is expected to expand from around 12 million vehicles in 2012 to exceed 103 million vehicles on Asian roads by 2018,according to a recent report from Pike Research. The ...
Destination Maternity Corporation,the world's leading maternity apparel retailer,reported sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 ended September 30,2012,and announced that it expects its fourth quarter fiscal 2012 earnings to exceed ...
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Official retail figures,released by the Office for National Statistics(ONS),paint a surprisingly rosy picture of retail sales in August,said the British Retail Consortium(BRC). The ONS numbers show the total value of sales(not seasonally ...
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Broad-based Chinese plastics firm Cosmos Machinery Enterprises Ltd. has closed an appliance and electronics molding factory in Wuxi, China, as tougher economic conditions sharply cut sales and pushed the company into a small loss in the ...
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