"Black Friday" sales are a staple to the U.S. holiday shopping season, analysts propose that the event is not as popular as many suggest. Simply Electronics explains why web-based shopping can improve the holiday shopping experience. ...
Tags: Electronics, Online Retail, Holiday Consumers, Computer Products
The fortunes of base metals producers are based primarily on one very big customer China. So it’s little wonder that most stocks associated with producing copper and other metals are stuck in no man’s land right now up from ...
Tags: metals producers, big customer, China, copper, metals
Trade Arabia News Service reported that exports from the GCC countries to China rose to USD 7.1 billion in October from a yearly low of USD 4.9 billion in August, marking a 45.6% increase in just Q1. Growth expectations in the Chinese ...
Tags: exports, GCC countrie, China, Chinese economy
The latest research from KPMG and the British Retail Consortium (BRC) shows online shopping is still growing, despite a slowdown in the industry overall. Figures from the annual sales monitor study by the two organisations, published ...
Tags: Computer Products, Online Sales, UK Retail
Amid speculation that Microsoft will soon expand distribution of its Surface RT, giant e-tailer Amazon continues to offer the tablet through partners, who jack up the price or post inflated list prices to claim large savings. Talk of ...
Tags: Amid, Microsoft, Surface RT, Amazon, customers
Apple kick-started pre-orders of the iPad Mini early today, and within hours, sold out the white model in all three Wi-Fi configurations. Pre-sales for the iPad Mini -- at 7.9-in., Apple's first downsized tablet -- started just after ...
Tags: Apple, iPad Mini, white model, WiFi configurations
BOULDER, CO (BRAIN) — Leisure Trends Group and the National Sporting Goods Association have reached an agreement that will provide NSGA members with access to retail sales data from Leisure Trends' Sporting Goods RetailTRAK program. ...
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In the first three quarters of 2012, faced with the complicated and volatile economic environment at home and abroad, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council committed to the general tone of progressing steadily, correctly handled ...
This month could set a new toy sales record in the UK, thanks to two extra shopping days compared to 2011. However, retail sales tracker NPD also says that despite sales potentially topping £400 million in the last three weeks of ...
Tags: toy, NPD, UK toy, Sales of toys
Shares in Diamond Foods rose today (18 December) after the Kettle Chips owner reported underlying first-quarter earnings that were ahead of Wall Street forecasts. The US snack group reported adjusted earnings per share of US$0.24 for ...
In October, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 1,893.4 billion yuan, up by 14.5 percent year-on-year (nominal growth rate. The real growth rate was 13.5 percent. The follows are nominal growth rates if there’s no ...
Tags: Retail Sales, Consumer Goods, Service
America may be the largest consumer of diamonds today but the focus is now being shifted to Asia which could overtake the US by the end of this decade. Rapid growth of consumers in China and India is helping now to drive a rebound from the ...
Tags: consumer of diamonds, consumers in China, economic downturn, America
In September, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 1,822.7 billion yuan, up by 14.2 percent year-on-year (Nominal growth rate. The real growth rate was 13.2 percent. The follows are nominal growth rates if there’s no ...
Tags: Retail Sales, Consumer Goods, Light Industry, Daily Use
An expert said that the retail industry in the GCC is set to thrive due to increasing purchasing power, growing expatriate population, changing lifestyle and an expanding tourism and hospitality industry. Ms Sameena Ahmad MD of of ...
Tags: GCC, retailer, thrive, growing expatriate population
The prospects for a pick up in China's economy are getting better by the week,with more signs that 2013 could be a strong year.It is good news for the Australian economy,which has slowed in the past year in the wake of a sharp fall in the ...
Tags: China's economy, Australian economy, iron ore, CEWC