UK retail sales values were down 2.2% on a like-for-like basis from April 2012, when they had declined 3.3% on the preceding year. On a total basis, sales were down 0.6%, against a 1.0% decline in April 2012. Growth was negatively ...
Tags: Apparel, Apparel Industry
Ermenegildo Zegna was one of the first luxury brands to set up shop in China, 21 years back, a decision that yielded rich dividends. Now with the new Lagos (Nigeria) store launch on 17th April 2013, Zegna is all set to expand into the ...
Tags: Ermenegildo Zegna, Apparel
Placing orders in the evening or on the weekend is the order of the day in small companies. Unfortunately, so are waiting for an offer to be quoted and lengthy price negotiations. To meet the needs of plant construction companies like ...
Tags: Webshop, Processing Machinery, Pumps
Furniture Today will broadcast an exclusive webcast on June 5 by Jerry Epperson on the "State of the Industry" in 2013, sponsored by Nationwide Marketing Group. Click here for details. "2013 began with lots of challenges, mostly out of ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Economic woes in recent years have spurred companies of all sizes to shake up data center hiring, training, development and other processes to better align IT and business operations -- and boost the bottom line. Many companies now look ...
Tags: IT Pros, Computer Products
ToyNews has established an official network of parents to keep the UK trade up-to-date with consumer news, views and features. Members of the parenting network will help share their views on the toy market, write a monthly column and ...
Tags: ToyNews, Parent Network
By the end of summer, Erik’s Bike Shop should have opened its 20th location in a onetime autoworkers’ union hall across from the defunct Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plan right on the Mississippi River in St. Paul. It will be ...
Tags: Autoworker Building, Bike Shop, Bike
Bicycle Retailer & Industry News editors and sponsors roll out Tuesday morning on a three-day tour of bicycle stores in Chicago. The BRAIN Dealer Tour will visit 13 stores by bike this week, sampling the growing infrastructure for bikes ...
Tags: Bicycle Retailer, Bicycle Industry
The tripartite partners (Government, employers and workers) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) express their great sadness at the immense loss of life and serious injuries caused by the collapse of the Rana Plaza Building in ...
The Tupelo Furniture Market has shifted the dates of its spring market to mid-January in order to give buyers and manufacturers a jump on tax refund season. The spring show, which traditionally has been in mid- to late February, is now ...
Tags: Furniture Market, Furniture
Being blessed with so many different and unique properties, it is not only the Acrylic Furniture that is in high demand today but even the aircraft's and space shuttles are also being made using components that have been fabricated from ...
Audi has signalled the official start of construction of its new $1.1 billion Mexico plant, laying the foundation stone for what will be its first factory on the American continent. Located in San Jose Chiapa, Mexico, the new 900 million ...
Samsung said Friday that its smartphones and tablets running its Knox security and management software have been cleared for use on the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) network. BlackBerry had announced yesterday that the DoD had approved ...
German carmaker Audi has started construction of the new EUR900m sport utility vehicle (SUV) manufacturing plant in San José Chiapa, Mexico. Claimed to be the Audi's first own car manufacturing plant on the American continent, the ...
Lucibel, a French LED lighting company, has acquired Cordel, a company that specializes in shop lighting. Lucibel purchased 100% of the shares in the company. With this take-over, Lucibel places “shop lighting” at the core of ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED, lighting