Improved margins drove profit before depreciation, interest and taxes (PBDIT) by 114 per cent year-on-year at Reliance Retail during the third fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2014. Reliance Retail said it posted its highest ever profit ...
Tags: LED Reliance Retail, stores, Apparel
Sports Authority appointed Ron Stoupa as executive vice president and chief marketing officer. In his new role, Stoupa will be responsible for leading the strategic development and oversight of the company’s marketing plans to further ...
Tags: Sports Authority, Sporting Goods
According to The Telegraph, ScS is preparing to return to the London stock market this week with a listing valuing the business at £70m. According to the newspaper, the retailer did formally announce its flotation, instead quietly ...
Tags: price shares, flooring offering, Furniture
One of the best moves Floors and More ever made was a year into the company’s life when its founders Dan and Brenda Billingsley decided to take their tile store from a city address to its current location on Interstate 30, a direct ...
Tags: tile store, Construction
Powerful Yogurt is set to launch in the UK this month, with specialist online sports nutrition retailer Muscle Food UK. Available in three flavours Natural, Strawberry, Mango and sold in 227g tubs (rrp 2.35), Powerful Yogurt delivers up ...
Tags: Yogurt, protein, Agriculture
The Adidas Group entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Rockport business to a new entity formed by Berkshire Partners and New Balance for a total consideration of $280 million, most of which will be paid in cash with the remainder ...
Tags: footwear brands, Sporting Goods
ShopClues, an Indian online marketplace said it has raised over US $100 million in Series D from a group of investors led by Tiger Global, which also saw investments from a majority of existing investors. Founded in Silicon Valley in June ...
Tags: online marketplace, Apparel
The Australian Anti-Dumping Commission has announced it has initiated a new investigation into the alleged dumping of prepared or preserved tomatoes into the Australian market, after a fresh application was lodged by Australian food ...
Tags: Tomato Dumping, Agriculture
Sportsman's Warehouse will open a new store in Albany, OR this summer that will mark its seventh location in Oregon. The Utah retailer has now announced nine store openings for 2015. This store will be located in the Albany Plaza Shopping ...
Tags: hunting, fishing, camping gear, Sporting Goods
ÏD Group, French designer and maker of children’s wear, has selected Centric 8 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software by Centric, leading provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software for retail, apparel, footwear, ...
Tags: product development, sourcing, business planning, Textile
Sports MASH Holdings, which is controlled by Mike Ashley, reduced its stake in Sports Direct International Plc by 2.57 percent to 55.14 percent by selling 15.4 million ordinary shares for roughly $168 million on Jan. 20, the British ...
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Halfords Group plc reported same-store sales by its Cycling and Travel Solutions stores increased 7.6 percent and 5.7 percent respectively in the 15 weeks and fiscal third quarter ended Jan. 9. The UK’s leading retailer of ...
Tags: Same-Store Gains, Sporting Goods
Jakks Pacific, Character Options, LEGO and Smyths Toys among the winners celebrated this year. The UK toy industry’s elite gathered last night in the IMAX theatre of London’s Science Museum to celebrate this year’s ...
36 toys pick up honours across 12 categories. The winners of the Toy Fair Best New Toy Awards have been announced for the seventh year at Toy Fair, predicting some of the top new toys for 2015. Winners range from household names such as ...
Tags: toy retailers, toy industry, Toys
Kiabi, a leading French apparel retailer, has selected Predictix, provider of retail predictive and prescriptive analytics solutions, to implement a unified suite of merchandising and supply chain optimization solutions. Predictix ...