Global 40W equiv. LED bulb ASP decreased 2.7 percent to US $15.4 (NT $462), with price decline most evident in the China region, according to market intelligence organization Trendforce’s LEDinside division’s latest LED bulb ...
Tags: LED Bulb, LED Lighting
Brick-and-mortar retail sales declined 3.1 percent last week as pre-winter storms put the kibosh on late Christmas shopping, according to market research firm ShopperTrak. The bad weather, combined with a deluge of last-minute online ...
Tags: brick-and-mortar retail sales, late Christmas shopping, ShopperTrak
Brick-and-mortar retail sales declined 3.1 percent last week as pre-winter storms put the kibosh on pre-Christmas shopping. According to market research firm ShopperTrak,the bad weather kept shoppers away in droves,with foot traffic ...
Tags: ShopperTrak, Retail Forecast, brick-and-mortar retail sales
Whilst the countdown to Christmas has been planned for months, the dawning of Black Friday on Friday 29th November now signals the start of the final flurry for seasonal sales. The phenomena started in the US, to capitalise on the ...
Tags: Christmas Sales, UK Retailers
Hasbro plans to cut back in order to save $100 million per year by 2015. The toy giant made the announcement as part of its preliminary full-year financial results for 2012, following weaker than anticipated consumer demand for toys ...
Tags: Hasbro, Toys, Lower Christmas Sales
Cloud hosting company FireHost has claimed that cross-site scripting attacks increased by an estimated 160 per cent in the final quarter of 2012. The company claims that it has detected a spike in what it calls a "superfecta" of attempted ...
The search giant saw its market share drop to 88% in December 2012. According to Experian, 2.7 billion visits were made to UK search engines in December 2012. This represents a 17% increase year-on-year for UK search. Google market ...
Tags: Google Search, market share, search engine
Retail opinion was divided over what the most important or stand out moment was for the toy industry last year. Hasbro’s new Furby was named by just under ten per cent of the retailers we questioned, while seven per cent said the ...
Tags: toy, toy industry, toy retail
Maps Toys enjoyed a successful Christmas period thanks to extensive media coverage for its key brands including Aeromax, Yummy Dough and the new Moshi Monster Cookie Kit. Coverage was secured in Sainsbury's Magazine Christmas Gift ...
Tags: PR, Maps Toys, Christmas period
The Entertainer has enjoyed another record Christmas, recording a like-for-like sales increase of 9.5 per cent in the five weeks to December 29th. The specialist toy chain told Retail Week that it maintained margins as total sales boomed ...
Tags: toy chain, toy, Christmas sales, store sales
Sales growth lower than 2011; Toys suffer at the hands of electronic goods and tablets, says BRC. This December UK retail sales were up only 0.3 per cent like-for-like, versus a 2.2 per cent like-for-like growth in December 2011. Total ...
Tags: Toy Sales, Christmas, Toys, Online shopping
John Lewis has revealed solid sales growth over the festive period - with total sales up 14.8 per cent compared to 2011. Like for like sales for the five weeks to December 29th, 2012 were up 13.0 per cent. Compared with two years ago, ...
Tags: John Lewis, solid sales, Christmas, toy
17 million UK consumers are expected to shop online. UK consumers are expected to visit nearly 126 million sites on Boxing Day this year, a 31% increase from 2011. According to Experian and IMRG, online retail visits will break Cyber ...
Tags: shop online, network, Internet, UK
Come winter, come the need for light. But whether it's a firework or a bonfire lighting up the cold, dark evenings or festive coils of lighting designed to lure shoppers in to the pre-Christmas sales, there are a host of illuminating ...
Tags: light, lighting, illuminating options, Christmas
In its interim report for the January-September period, published on 30 October 2012, Marimekko Corporation estimated that the Group's net sales for the whole year would grow by over 10% and operating profit would at least double compared ...
Tags: Apparel retailer, Apparel, net sales, operating profit