Cherokee Global Brands, a global marketer of style-focused lifestyle brands, has entered into a new license agreement with Argos, a subsidiary of Home Retail Group plc, to launch a broad family-assortment of Cherokee lifestyle products ...
Canadian food establishment Premium Brands is planning to cease operations at its processed meats plant in Toronto, Ontario in December 2015, a move that may impact 200 jobs. The closure comes as the company thought that the plant's age ...
Tags: meats, foodservice customers, Agriculture
The group has reported sales of £1.82 billion for the 18 weeks leading to January 3rd this year, seeing an increase of 0.8 per cent. Argos’ like-for-like sales remained broadly flat for the 18 weeks to January 3rd, 2015, while ...
Tags: Christmas Results, trading period, Toys
Packaging and waste management projects do not always begin with the impulse to improve sustainability. What the PCA demonstrates in its new resource, The Business Case for Packaging Sustainability is that there are benefits in considering ...
Tags: waste management, Packaging
For the first fiscal quarter ended October 25, 2014, NASDAQ listed and marketer of apparels, Ascena Retail Group, delivered flat sales growth from the comparable quarter of previous fiscal year. Net sales of $1.2 billion for the first ...
Tags: Apparel Marketer, Net sales, Apparel
BBC News has reported that the Home Retail Group (HRG) has sold its Homebase store in Battersea to a residential property developer for £57m. The group plans to close 25 Homebase stores by early March 2015, citing the pressure of ...
Argos has teamed up with Transport for London (TfL) to launch its first Underground store at Cannon Street Tube station. The new Argos Collect store, which officially opened today, has been designed to give customers convenient access to ...
Tags: Underground Store, Furniture
Stockmann, a Finnish listed company engaged in the retail trade, has appointed Per Thelin, as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective from the 10th of November, 2014. Per Thelin, a B.Sc. Economics Graduate and a Swedish citizen, ...
Tags: Stockmann, Chief Executive Officer, Textile
Macintosh Retail Group said Halfords Netherlands, the bicycle and automotive chain it sold last year, has filed for bankruptcy. Macintosh sold Halfords Netherlands to the chain's Managing Director on June 30, 2013. Following the ...
The New York-based retail chain is turning to toys to pick up the slack by stocking more LEGO, dolls and board games than before. International book retailer Barnes & Noble is selling more toys than ever, in order to compensate for slow ...
Eastern Mountain Sports will celebrate the grand opening of its relocated store in Stamford, CT next week. The 8,144-square-foot store at the Ridgeway Shopping Center will carry kid's products and rent paddle sports gear for the first time. ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Sports Wear
Vestis Retail Group, LLC and its wholly owned subsidiary, Everest Merger Sub have completed a cash tender offer, for all outstanding Class A and Class B shares of NASDAQ listed Sport Chalet, Inc. Vestis said, the transaction was completed ...
Tags: Vestis Retail, Sport Chalet, Apparel
Ascena Retail Group, Inc. announced that it has initiated a search process for a new Chief Financial Officer and that Dirk Montgomery, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since January of 2013, has accepted a position with ...
Tags: Ascena, Apparel, Accessories
Bebe stores, inc. announced that Seth Johnson, Blair Lambert and Brett Brewer have replaced Caden Wang, Barbara Bass and Cynthia Cohen on the Company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately. Manny Mashouf, Chairman of the ...
Tags: Bebe stores, Apparel, Accessories
Destination Maternity Corporation, the world's leading maternity apparel retailer, announced that Ed Krell is stepping down as the Company's chief executive officer and a member of its board of directors. Anthony M. Romano will become the ...
Tags: Anthony Romano, CEO, Apparel