The flexible packaging market is rapidly growing, with recent research suggesting that its global value equated to £45bn in 2013. But what has been the catalyst for this growth? Why is rigid packaging being replaced with flexible? ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Flexible Packaging
According to recently published figures for the UK, it now accounts for 13% of all transactions and online grocery sales are set to double in key European markets by 2016. This shift in consumer shopping behaviour has inevitably had an ...
American retailer Meijer has broken ground on a $100m dairy production plant in Tipp City, Miami County, Ohio, a move which will create 100 new jobs. Spread across an area of 173,000ft2, the new plant will include 105,000ft2 dairy ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Dairy, Dairy Products
Furniture retail is a global $300+ billion industry, but only 3% of sales take place online. Visualization specialist Cylindo.com is releasing a solution set to eliminate the dismal online conversion rates typical for online furniture ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Furniture Retail
The upcoming Summer Las Vegas Market, July 27-31, will be highlighted by an original series of programs and educational sessions led by top industry influencers as well as many leaders from various fields of business and design. The ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Vale-Bridgecraft has appointed furniture marketing specialist Claire Parker – formerly marketing director for Hammonds, Next Kitchens and most recently Furniture Link – to drive the marketing and unique show centre offer for the ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Gap Inc. reported that May net sales increased 4 percent compared with last year. Net sales for the four-week period ended May 31, 2014 were $1.27 billion compared with net sales of $1.22 billion for the four-week period ended June 1, 2013. ...
Tags: Apparel
Vail Resorts Inc. reported its retail and rental sales grew 11.2 percent in the third quarter ended April 30 compared to the same period the prior year due primarily to growth at its Colorado and Utah stores and incremental revenue ...
Tags: Vail Resorts
The Cato Corporation reported sales of $86.4 million for the four weeks ended May 31, 2014, a 6% increase versus sales of $81.7 million for the four weeks ended June 1, 2013. Same-store sales for the month increased 3%. Sales for the ...
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
Ascena Retail Group, Inc. reported financial results for its fiscal third quarter ended April 26, 2014. Highlights: -GAAP EPS $0.20; Adjusted EPS $0.27 -Total Comparable Sales (1%) -Fiscal 2014 EPS Guidance Reaffirmed Between ...
Tags: Ascena
GE Lighting has launched a navigation system that enables retailers to communicate with customers through their smartphones using LED lighting. This smart-shopping system from GE Lighting and US startup ByteLight allows retailers to send ...
Tags: GE Lighting, Smart-Shopper Market
Customers are using less cash than ever as retailers make it easier and more convenient to shop and pay. New data reveals that a growing proportion of smaller payments previously made in cash are now being made in other ways. The ...
Tags: Cash, smaller payments
Promotional product creation company Tee Compressed is offering clients a service that few others can provide—compressed promotional apparel. These are items, like a T-shirt, tote bag, or towel, which have been compressed into an ...
Tags: Promotional Apparel, tote bag
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