Luxury and fashionable women’s lingerie brand Van de Velde announces its annual results for year 2012. - Consolidated turnover rises by 1.1%. - A decrease in wholesale turnover, a slight fall in gross margin and an important ...
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Regional US supermarket group and food distributor Spartan Stores has booked an increase in third-quarter earnings. Net profit in the three months to the end of December amounted to US$5.2m, a 2% increase on the prior-year period. ...
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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 ...
International retailer Spar is to invest US$100m in the development of its store network in Russia. The retailer has said it will invest $30m in the reconstruction of its Moscow stores and another $70, on the opening of new stores. ...
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Urban Outfitters, Inc., a leading lifestyle specialty retail company operating under the Anthropologie, BHLDN, Free People, Terrain and Urban Outfitters brands, announced record net sales for the quarter and year ended January 31, 2013. ...
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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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Swedish retailer Axfood saw its profits increase in 2012 but CEO Anders Strålman expressed dissatisfaction with the company's like-for-like sales. Axfood booked a 4.5% rise in profit after tax to SEK895m. Impairment costs at its ...
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 ...
Computerworld - Microsoft today announced that it would open five new retail stores by summer, including one it's transmuting from a "pop-up" outlet created last year to drive holiday sales. The new stores will be in Honolulu (Ala Moana ...
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The German Value Fashion Retailer Takko Fashion still keeps on growing. In its current new opening offensive from February until April 2013 the company implements more than 50 new stores throughout Europe – about half the number in ...
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Marimekko is expanding its operations in all its main market areas. In Northern Europe, the company is expanding its network of company-owned stores, while in North America the main thrust is on developing shop-in-shop partnerships with ...
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bebe stores, inc. announced unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended December 29, 2012. Net sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2013 were $135.5 million, a decrease of 10.9% from $152.0 million reported for the second ...
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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H & M declares its full year and fourth quarter results. Full-year - The H&M Group’s sales including VAT increased in local currencies by 11 percent during the financial year. Sales in comparable units increased by 1 percent. ...
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