UK retail sales were up 0.5% on a like-for-like basis from May 2013, when they had increased 1.8% on the preceding year. On a total basis, sales were up 2.0%, against a 3.4% rise in May 2013. Clothing was the best performing category, ...
Tags: Clothing, UK retail sales
With the FIFA World Cup' just around the corner, U.K. premier Soccer brand – Umbro, after unleashing its Soccer boots for its fans has unveiled its range of FIFA inspired T-shirts. With a plethora of options to spoil one for his ...
Tags: T-Shirt, Apparel, Accessories
Stage Stores, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors approved an increase in the Company's quarterly dividend rate to 14.0 cents per share from the previous rate of 12.5 cents per share. The new quarterly rate will be applicable to ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
Saxx Underwear Co. hired Tim Bartels as its newly appointed chief executive officer, effective immediately. Bartels joins SAXX most recently from Columbia Sportswear where he served as Vice President of Global Footwear Sales. There he ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Outdoor industry
The American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) announces that Juanita D. Duggan, an experienced trade association executive and lobbyist, will join the association on July 1 as President & CEO. "Juanita has demonstrated time and ...
Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, Inc. announced that adjusted earnings per diluted share were $.32 for the first quarter of fiscal 2014, representing a 10.3% increase compared to adjusted earnings per diluted share of $.29 in the first quarter of ...
International logistics, supply chain and warehousing company DHL Supply Chain has been unveiled as the Associate Partner of fashion buying tradeshow Pure London for the second season running. As one of the world's largest logistics and ...
Tags: Textile, Appreal, Trade tips
The basket value of online clothes shoppers who use a virtual fitting room while making their purchase is an average of 7% higher than shoppers who don’t, more than offsetting the general 1% decrease in average basket values ...
The Buckle, Inc. announced that comparable store net sales, for stores open at least one year, for the 4-week period ended May 31, 2014 decreased 3.1 percent from comparable store net sales for the 4-week period ended June 1, 2013. Net ...
Tags: The Buckle, footwear
The 564-door action sports chain, which no longer reports weekly comparable store sales when reporting monthly results, said May comps increased 3.6% with stronger same store sales in the month's final two weeks. Overall sales rose 13.3% to ...
Consumer-reported retail sales of sporting goods apparel, equipment and athletic footwear increased 3 percent in 2013, according to the 2014 edition of the NSGA Sporting Goods Market report, which was released by the National Sporting Goods ...
Helen Dickinson, British Retail Consortium Director General, said, “May has seen shop price deflation remain unchanged at 1.4 per cent, the thirteenth consecutive month of deflation." Highlights: -Thirteenth consecutive month ...
Tags: Clothing, Helen Dickinson
Genesco Inc. reported earnings from continuing operations for the first quarter ended May 3, 2014, of $14.1 million, or $0.60 per diluted share, compared to earnings from continuing operations of $14.5 million, or $0.61 per diluted share, ...
Tags: Genesco, continuing operations
NetSuite Inc., the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP and omnichannel commerce software suites, announced its participation as a diamond sponsor at the Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition 2014, being held ...
Tags: NetSuite, commerce platform
India International Leather Fair – Delhi 2014 will be held from 3rd to 5th July, 2014 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. It will have on display the entire range of products relating to leather industry from raw material to finished ...
Tags: raw material, Leather Fair