Robert Shotton, owner of retailer Cousins Furniture Stores, has been confirmed as the final judge for the 2015 edition of The Furniture Awards, a new programme created by Furniture News magazine in partnership with the January Furniture ...
Tags: Furniture Awards, Furniture
The level of carriage paid orders is being reduced to £150 until December 16th 2014. Schleich has decreased its level of spend for carriage paid orders prior to Christmas. The company aims to ease the way for retailers to restock ...
Tags: Carriage, paid orders, Toys
Swedish fashion retailer Lindex, part of Stockmann, a Finnish listed company engaged in the retail trade, has elected two additional members to the company’s Board of Directors, Eva Hamilton and Per Thelin. Together the Board now ...
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Southeast Asian online retailer, Lazada has raised €200 million in a new funding round led by Singapore investment company Temasek . In a statement, Lazada said Temasek joined existing investors including Verlinvest, Kinnevik and ...
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African online retailer of fashion products, consumer electronics, home appliances to beauty products, Jumia said it has received a new round of investment amounting to €120 million. “These investments, which were made by ...
Tags: beauty products, home appliances, Apparel
Australian wholesaler and distributor of groceries and hardware products Metcash Limited (Metcash) has announced a drop in its Underlying Profit after Tax of 9 per cent, to $101.7 million, which it said was due to “ongoing operating ...
Tags: hardware products, groceries, Agriculture
EBITDA at the largest down apparel company in China, Bosideng International rose 11.9 percent from a year ago period, but operating profit slipped 10.7 per cent in the six months to September 30, 2014 period. Bosideng said, as a result of ...
Driven by its core business, European fashion retailer, Bestseller reported a 21 per cent year on year surge in pretax profits for the fiscal year 2013-14. Pretax profits rose 21 per cent from the previous fiscal year to €228.2 ...
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Some of the biggest US-based retailers say that Alibaba would break American local retailers if Congress can’t prevent tax evasion and fraud. These companies have pointed to Alibaba when it hasn’t secured a place in US market. ...
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Iconic Regent Street toy specialist has revealed its plans to target major cities and airports across the US. London’s Hamleys is planning to open an outlook in the US for the first time as it reveals its strategy to seek stores in ...
Today - Friday, November 28th - is the final deadline for retaillers wishing to enter the Toy Retailer of the Year Awards. Retailers can compete nationally in like for like categories and can apply in more than one, if applicable. ...
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The day after Thanksgiving in West is the day when American shopping mall would launch a large number of discounts and preferential activities to the mall of America with black pen recording profits.On the following Friday, people are crazy ...
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The composite panel cold store solutions provider ISD Solutions is completing work on a new frozen food distribution centre for frozen food retailer Farmfoods. Due to open in November, the 175,000 sq ft facility at Avonmouth, Bristol, ...
Tags: Farmfoods, Frozen Food, Agriculture
Believe it or not, the fourth quarter is traditionally a slow period for the diamond trade. That may be a stark realization for some, especially on the eve of Thanksgiving weekend that signals the start of the Christmas shopping season. ...
Tags: diamond trade, Arts
Steinhoff International said it has acquired a major stake in apparel retailer, Pepkor for R62.8 billion, which gives the budget furniture firm entry in to Africa's fast-growing garment markets. The South African furniture maker purchased ...
Tags: garment markets, furniture maker, Apparel