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 ...
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Gross retail turnover at specialty stores retailer, Shoppers Stop Ltd (SSL) lifted 7.23 per cent year on year in the third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2014. SSL said its gross retail turnover stood at Rs. 844.77 crore for the ...
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US based apparel marketer Gap Inc said it will close its Piperlime brand, including the online platform and the only store in New York, by the end of the first quarter of fiscal year 2015. The Piperlime brand is by far the smallest of the ...
2XU has added professional athlete and World Champion Triathlete Craig “Crowie” Alexander and his triathlon coaching company Sansego to its growing portfolio of rand ambassadors. Crowie will train, compete and recover in 2XU ...
Tags: wetsuits, compression wear, cycle, Sporting Goods
Fred Williams is now working with the design team at The Green Board Game Co. to turn Summit Up in to a working prototype. A seven-year-old boy from Northumberland has been named the Young Games Inventor of the Year. Fred Williams from ...
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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 ...
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PPG Industries has posted a new video about specifying glass to accommodate wind and snow loads to the PPG Glass Education Center, a comprehensive website that helps architects, specifiers, students and construction industry professionals ...
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Net profits surged 17 per cent from a year ago period at Swedish apparel retailer H&M Group for the full fiscal year ended November 30, 2014. The Group’s profit after tax increased to SEK 19,976 million or corresponding to SEK 12.07 ...
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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 ...
Girls who frequently consume sugary drinks tend to start their menstrual periods earlier than girls who do not, according to new research from Harvard Medical School in Boston. The study, published online today in Human Reproduction, one ...
China announced on Tuesday that it will impose consumption tax on some types of batteries and paint to encourage environmental protection. A four-percent tax will be levied on the production, processing and import of batteries and coating ...
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Apparel brand Van Heusen plans to expand its exclusive brand outlet (EBO) count by 50 this year, which will take the store numbers to 300, a senior official of the company said. Vinay Bhopatkar, COO of Van Heusen told reporters, “We ...
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Italian fashion brand Galvanni has made a foray into the Indian market through FashionAndYou, a fashion and lifestyle portal and was launched last week. The entire range of Galvanni shirts, sweaters, polo t-shirts and sweatshirts will be ...
Tags: online platform, polo, yachting, golf, Apparel
Jabong.com, India’s leading fashion online store, got its Net Promoter Score (NPS) process certified by Nielsen and declared that it has attained an NPS of 73 per cent, based on surveys conducted during September 2014, for customer ...
Tags: customer satisfaction, online store, Apparel
For fiscal second-quarter 2015 (ended 28 December 2014), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has reported revenue of $413.2m, down 3.4% on $427.7m last quarter but similar to $415.1m a year ago and in the upper half of the target range of $400-420m ...
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