The Shanghai Steel Trading Center was established in Baoshan District in the morning of May 31, with steel products online sales, supplies procurement, circulation processing and supply chain financing as its main function. The center will ...
Clothing and clothing accessories constitute a major item in the growing Spanish luxury market, and it accounted for a sale of €545 million, according to a market trend study published by a Spanish company DBK. The study titled 'DBK ...
Tags: Luxury Market, Clothing, Apparel
As the US Senate has passed the Marketplace Fairness Act on e-commerce retailers earlier this month, the brick and mortar apparel retailers are expecting a relief from the increasing competition with online retailers since the act will ...
Tags: Sales Tax, Apparel Businesses
Driven by the various online channels, the way consumers obtain information has changed considerably in recent years. The number of communications channels ranging from websites to social media, plus the increasing shift of purchasing away ...
Tags: Luxury Industry
Sport Chalet Inc. posted fourth-quarter earnings Thursday, reporting a 6.8 percent increase in comparable store sales for the quarter ended March 31 compared with the same period in 2012. The company also reported a net loss of $2.3 ...
Tags: Transportation
Easton-Bell Sports is rebounding from a tumultuous year—a dramatic reshuffling of top management, the departure of key staff and the return of Terry Lee as the company's CEO. Its helmet division—Giro and Bell—had taken a ...
Tags: Transportation, Sporting Goods
How do you rate the prospects for your food and drink business over the year ahead? Taking part in Food Manufacture’s 2013 exclusive State-of-the-industry survey will allow you to compare your views with other industry professionals. ...
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Macy’s, Inc. reported higher sales and earnings for the first quarter of 2013, the 13-week period ended May 4, 2013. Based on the ongoing momentum in our business, as well as confidence in our future performance, the company also ...
Toy retailers selling Bigjigs stock on third-party websites like Amazon, eBay and Play.com have two weeks to pull the product listings - or be cut off by the supplier. Earlier this year, manufacturer, distributor and wholesaler Bigjigs ...
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As the ecommerce market in India is evolving rapidly, several online retailers including Snapdeal and Flipkart, have adopted marketplace model to boost sales. In Marketplace model, the online retailers do not need to store the products in ...
Tags: Apparel, online retailers
The Government's expected new Consumer Rights Directive is set to affect online toy retailers. It will will publish a draft bill formed of a simple set of consumer rights, in order to promote competitive markets and growth. Stuart ...
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The US Senate has passed the ‘Marketplace Fairness Act’ that would impose sales tax on online retailers by 69-27 vote. At present, only companies with brick-and-mortar stores in the US have to pay online sales tax. However, ...
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
The U.S. Senate on Monday passed legislation to allow states to collect sales tax from online and mail-order retailers, even if those retailers don't have a physical presence in the state. The legislation facilitates the collection of ...
Tags: U.S.Senate, Senate
News that Tesco has reported the biggest profits fall in its history is just the latest sign that all is not well in the world of planet retail. Britain's biggest retailer is also ditching plans to develop a number of big stores across the ...
Tags: Food, Drink, Food Manufacture