Hit by online delivery woes in the peak Christmas season, Marks & Spencer (M&S) reported the 14th consecutive quarter of decline in the general merchandise division sales for the thirteen weeks to December 27, 2014. M&S posted a 5.8 per ...
Tags: food sales, womenswear, Apparel
Not all tobacco smokers are into combustible cigarettes. Some smokers prefer using cigars because of the distinctive flavor and the longer smoking enjoyment that cigars offer. If standard electronic cigarettes or cigalikes are viable ...
Tags: regular cigarettes, electronic cigars, combustible cigars
John Lewis' first full week of clearance got off to a bumper start, with sales up 9.6% on last year. Customers took advantage of the longer Christmas holiday to go shopping. There was a robust performance from shops which benefited from ...
Tags: stand-out performance, Christmas holiday, shopping, Furniture
The United States is set to become an even more dominant market for the diamond industry in 2015. In a reversal of trends that have characterized the industry in the past few years, there has been a shift back from east to west as industry ...
Tags: Diamond Market, diamond industry
Sony Pictures has revealed it was largely unprepared for the hacking attack that took place last year. Michael Lynton, the chief executive of the firm, spoke to the Associated Press, describing the firm as being a ‘canary in the ...
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A third-party Wii U GameCube controller adaptor is now available online. Anyone looking for an alternative to the extremely expensive official Wii U GameCube adaptor may now have found their perfect purchase. Import site Play-Asia ...
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Samsung reckons its profits have slipped by a staggering 37.4 per cent year-on-year in the run up to Christmas 2014. The South Korean tech giant outed its pre-earnings guidance, revealing a predicted operating profit of 5.2 trillion ...
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Halfords boss Matt Davies will take up role in June, while Tesco plans for 43 store closures and consolidation of head office locations. Retail giant Tesco has seen an improved performance over Christmas, with UK like-for-like sales ...
Tags: Christmas, store management, Toys
Firm to roll out range of pre-school puzzles and games for new series. Coolabi has inked a deal with Ravensburger as it continues to grow the licensing programme ahead of the debut of the new series of The Clangers. Ravensburger will ...
Tags: pre-school puzzles, games, Toys
Retailer enjoyed online growth of 60 per cent during the five weeks to December 27th, 2014. The Entertainer enjoyed a boosted Christmas sales period thanks a surge in customers shopping on its website. RetailWeek states that the toy ...
Tags: Christmas Sales Growth, Toys
U.S. online retail sales for the Christmas season, from November 1 to December 31, rose 15 percent year on year to $53.3 billion, according to comScore Inc. Cyber Monday, December 1, ranked as the heaviest online spending day of the year ...
Amazon has announced it managed to sell upwards of 5 billion items last year alone. What’s more, Amazon says 40 per cent of those sales – around 2 billion – were from Amazon third-party sellers worldwide. According to ...
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In the Western traditional festival --- Christmas, Christmas lights are widely used and add a lot of festive atmosphere, many of which are from China. As a competitive Chinese manufacturer, Minleon Group is the most popular Christmas ...
Tags: Minleon Group, Christmas lights, LED decorative lighting solution, LED
Undoubtedly one of the catch-phrases that Chinese stock investors like to hear most is "opening up". The government has already taken numerous steps to ease restrictions on foreign capital in the domestic stock market. You must have heard ...
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Irish micro-distillery Blackwater Distillery has opened and is set to begin producing Blackwater No 5 Gin in the near future. When produced, the Blackwater No 5 Gin will initially be available for sale at select off-licences. The ...
Tags: whiskey, Gin, Agriculture