Body Central Corp. announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2012. Highlights for the fourth quarter ended December 29, 2012: -Net revenues for the quarter increased 0.3% to $81.0 million, compared to $80.7 ...
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Louie Blumkin was a retail visionary with a brilliant mind for names and numbers, a deeply philanthropic leader and a man who always put his family first. That's how family and friends are remembering the chairman emeritus of Nebraska ...
Dallas-based triathlon retailer Playtri is expanding to a second location set to open in May that, the company claims, will be the world’s largest triathlon store. At nearly 11,000 square feet, the new store 25 miles away in ...
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Associated British Foods has forecast flat revenue from its grocery division in the first half of its fiscal year amid challenging conditions in bread markets in the UK and Australia. ABF, which owns the Kingsmill bread brand in the UK ...
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UK retailer Primark announces full year 2012 results -Revenue £3,503m (2011, £3,043m) -Adjusted operating profit £356m (2011, £309m) -Adjusted operating profit margin 10.2% (2011, 10.2%) -Return on average ...
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UNIQLO announces plans to open its first mega store in the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan on Friday, March 15. Featuring a 3,300 square-meter sales floor, the new Sendai Izumi Store will be one of UNIQLO's biggest stores. The ...
US retailer Meijer is to invest US$160m in new and existing stores this year, creating 1,500 jobs. The Michigan-based company will construct six new Meijer supercentres in Michigan, Indiana and Illinois and remodel an additional five ...
It has been reported in Business Green that the system will be adopted in Sainsbury’s new store in Leek, Staffordshire and will enable the company to make energy savings of 59%. As well as making use of the new highly efficient LEDs, ...
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Ascena Retail Group, Inc. announced that Linda Heasley has accepted the position of President and CEO of Lane Bryant effective February 18, 2013. Ms. Heasley joins ascena’s Lane Bryant division after six years as President and CEO ...
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Kelly-Moore Paint Company, Inc. has opened two new stores in the Bay Area – San Francisco and Lafayette. The Lafayette store is located at 3707 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette, CA 94549. The newest San Francisco store is located at 701 ...
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Toner Cartridge Barn will open a new store in California on February 18, 2013 LOS ANGELES, CA, February 10, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Toner Cartridge Barn will open a new facility in Southern California on Monday, February 18, 2013. The ...
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The owners of Anchorage retailer Chain Reaction Cycles are set to open Alaska’s first Trek concept store in March. Trek Store of Anchorage will be housed in 4,600 square feet of space that Trek is designing and building out with its ...
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Performance Bicycle is plotting an aggressive growth strategy in the first half of 2013, with plans to open five stores in Florida — its first locations in the state — and one new store in Arizona. “Florida has a ...
Image courtesy of infotruck.blogspot.com.au.1 Wesfarmers Limited has released its second quarter retail sales results for the period ending 31 December 2012. Managing director Richard Goyder said he was generally pleased with the sales ...
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During 2012, the Marimekko Group’s net sales grew by 14 per cent and international sales by 31 per cent due to openings of new stores. Profitability declined, but cash flow increased significantly. The trend in the closing quarter of ...
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