The NPD Group has agreed to buy Leisure Trends Group, a Boulder-based market research company that tracks retail and wholesale sales and inventory figures in the bike industry. The NPD Group, based in Port Washington, N.Y., offers market ...
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Bob Sherman, who built Serta into the nation's largest bedding producer, is leaving Serta to pursue other interests, officials announced. His wife, Barbara Bradford, a senior Serta official, is also leaving. No reason for the departures, ...
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NRF expects sales in the months of November and December to marginally increase 3.9 percent to $602.1 billion, over 2012’s actual 3.5 percent holiday season sales growth. The forecast is higher than the 10-year average holiday sales ...
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Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo Car Group has reported sales of 5,719 cars in September in China, up 48.6%, compared to the same period in 2012. Of all the models sold, Volvo XC60 emerged as the top selling model with 2,482 cars ...
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Bedding Distribution ReportBedding specialty stores continue to gain share in the retail mattress marketplace while the furniture store channel continues to lose ground, according to Furniture Today's 2013 Bedding Distribution Channel ...
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It is hard to argue that hardwood flooring, derived from rapidly renewable trees, is one of the greenest floor covering options available. But is it worth selling that aspect of the floor? For residential consumers, a floor's sustainable ...
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Major Chinese industrial firms saw their combined profits rise 24.2 percent year on year in August, quickening from the 11.6-percent rate seen in July that points to further evidence of a firming economy, official data showed on Friday. ...
According to Americas Commercial Trucking (ACT) Research, the average selling price of total reported Class 8 used trucks continued to hold up better than expected in August, 2013. “For the first seven months of this year, prices ...
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The average selling price of total reported class 8 trucks came in better than expected for August, ACT Research reported, much of that due to younger trucks finally entering the used market. “For the first seven months of this ...
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Lift chair resource Mega Motion is teaming with bedding major Serta for a new line of Serta-branded lift chairs that will be unveiled at next month's High Point Market. Called the Serta Comfort Lift Chair, the three-model lineup features ...
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We wrap up this series of reports on Better Sleep Council research with this fascinating question: Can people train themselves to get by on less sleep? It turns out that fully 40% of consumers think that is the case, while 33% say they ...
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ASOS reported financial results for the three months period ending 31 August 2013: Q4 Highlights: -Retail sales +47% year on year (UK +49%, International +47%) -International retail sales 64% of total (65% last year) -Retail gross ...
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Retail sales increased in the month of August but came in at a much slower pace than anticipated. According to the National Retail Federation (NRF) – the world’s largest retail trade association – August retail sales ...
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Despite some indications that the economy is emerging from dark times, there were no clear-cut signs of that in retail sales numbers for August released by the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation (NRF) ...
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China's business activity surged to a 17-month high in August, providing fresh evidence that the protracted economic slowdown in China may be bottoming out. Industrial production gained 10.4 percent from a year earlier, picking up from ...
Tags: Steel Leads, Steel Sector