Footfall in January was 1.2% lower than a year ago, down on the 0.7% fall in December. Shopping centres reported the largest decline, falling 2.8%, while high streets experienced a 1.6% decline in footfall, up on the 1.8% fall in December. ...
Tags: Consumer Confidence, Footfall
German apparel marketer, Tom Tailor Group said despite a difficult market environment, it was able to achieve sales growth of 3 per cent year on year in 2014. Tom Tailor Group was able to hike sales to €932 million in 2014 as against ...
Tags: Tom Tailor, apparel
Career uniform designer and manufacturer, International Uniforms, Inc. has selected NGC’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) fashion Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, NGC ERP XPress. NGC ERP XPress will provide International ...
Tags: Uniform, ERP Solution
As online shopping continues to grow at the expense of store visits, the premium in the future will be on creating unique, brand-defining experiences that keep customers coming back— whatever the channel, says global consultancy firm ...
Tags: Retail Stores, Apparel
Consumer confidence in Australia is fuelling the rise of ‘savvy shopping’, according to findings from market research organisation Nielsen. Nielsen said Australian consumers were optimistic about their buying habits over the ...
A new study from one of the UK’s top money-saving brands has found that more than half of Britons (57%) chose to brave the high street to do the majority of their January sales shopping, rather than shop online. Clothing, furniture ...
The independent store has been championed by the team for its range of creative toys and games for kids aged five to 15. Brighton’s independent toy store, Whirligig has been named the Good Toy Guide’s February Retailer of the ...
Tags: sewing kits, origami, model making, Toys
Today more than ever it is vital for retailers to create a pleasant and unique shopping experience for consumers. Consumers want to be “wowed” when they are walking through a store by both the products you are selling and the ...
Tags: shopping experience, Construction
Electronic store chains lose another round to online. Where does it end? Are electronics store outlets doomed? It was indeed a merry Christmas for online retailers. Results for the season show a strong expansion of sales in the US, fueled ...
Tags: Electronics Retailers, Electrical
REI will open its fifth flagship store in the Washington D.C. area in late 2016 at the site chosen by President Eisenhower for his inaugural ball and by the Beatles for their first concert in the U.S. The REI flagship will serve the fast ...
Tags: flagship store, Sporting Goods
The firm has also outlined its plans to open a further 14 high street stores this year. Family run toy chain, The Entertainer is gearing up to open its landmark 100th store next month. The new store will be situated in Aylesbury in ...
Tags: pre-school characters, Toys
PPG Industries' automotive refinish business has been heavily involved in a groundbreaking associate degree program in collision repair and refinishing technology at Fayetteville Technical Community College (FTCC) in Fayetteville, N.C. On ...
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 ...
Empire Today, the nation’s largest shop-at-home flooring company, will open its first retail stores in Fairfax, Va., on Jan. 29, and then on Feb. 5 in Commack and Westbury, N.Y., both of which are located on Long Island. Through ...
Australia’s largest multi-brand retail food franchisor and leading wholesale coffee roaster, Retail Food Group Limited (RFG) has announced that it has partnered with Tian Jin Sen Yong Tai Co Limited, to establish a joint venture for ...