SunMoon Food Company, a global distributor of fruit and food products, has implemented Oracle's NetSuite OneWorld to support its global growth, and increase overall productivity and efficiency. In just five months, NetSuite OneWorld ...
In the first quarter of fiscal 2015 ended November 29, 2014, net sales rose 2.3 per cent to $2.56 billion from $2.50 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2014 at US based retailer, Family Dollar. Comparable store sales for the 13-week ...
Tags: customer transactions, depreciation, property taxes, 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
The second half of the year is really starting to gain momentum for John Lewis, with a change in the weather this week driving a great week's trade, 13% ahead of last year. Online continued to trade strongly, growing a percentage share of ...
Tags: John Lewis, Sales, Furniture
eRecyclingCorps (eRC), the world's leading provider of carrier-grade wireless device trade-in and reuse, today announced that it completed more than 1.1 million secure wireless device trade-ins in May 2013, setting a new industry record for ...
Tags: eRecyclingCorps, Wireless Device, Consumer Electronics
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, announced the deployment of FlashServer HA solutions at Potpourri Group, Inc. PGI is one of the leading multi-brand direct marketers in the United States, offering a broad ...
Tags: Textile, Processing Machinery
Supermarket chain Sainsbury has dodged the worst impact of the horsemeat scandal and posted better than expected financial results for its fourth quarter and year to March 16, driven mainly by non food items. Strong Sainsbury results ...
Tags: Sainsbury, dodges horsemeat, food
Strong sales, reflecting continued market outperformance -Total sales for fourth quarter up 7.1 per cent (6.3 per cent excluding fuel) -Like-for-like sales for fourth quarter up 4.2 per cent (3.6 per cent excluding fuel) ...
Tags: Sainsbury, clothing business, clothing
Half-year profits at Coles, Australia's second-largest retailer, increased by more than 15%, owner Wesfarmers has reported. Earnings before interest and tax from Coles for the six months to the end of December were up 15.1% at A$755m. ...
Tags: Coles, profits, second-largest retailer
Automated self-checkout is appearing in more and more retail stores, with Walmart this year installing 10,000 self-service kiosks in hundreds of stores. But self-checkout is a technology direction with risks -- and even as Walmart moves ...
Sainsbury's has booked a 3.9% increase in quarterly sales, boosted by the supermarket group's "strongest ever" Christmas trading period. During the three months to 5 February, like-for-like sales increased by 1.5%. The same-store gain ...
Tags: Sainsbury, quarterly sales, supermarket group, Christmas trading period
Members of the glass and window industry gathered in Washington, D.C., Jan. 7, for the Building Enclosure Technology and Environment Council Symposium, Fenestration: A World of Change. The event, hosted by the National Institute of Building ...
Tags: Comfort, Efficiency, Security, Top Agenda, BETEC
US regional retailer Ingles Markets saw its sales growth quicken in the third quarter of its financial year. The company, which runs over 200 supermarkets, said grocery segment comparable-store sales increased 2.1% in the quarter to 23 ...
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US grocer The Fresh Market has upped its full-year profit forecast after an increase in first-half earnings. The retailer raised its full-year outlook to earnings of $1.33 to $1.38 per share with 5.5% to 6.5% same-store sales growth. That ...
Tags: profit forecast, grocer, Operating income, profit, earnings
US retailer Roundy's Inc said a "more challenging economic and competitive environment" affected results in the third quarter as profits fell. Earnings in the three months ended 1 October amounted to US$8.8m compared to $12.4m a year ...
Tags: retailer, competitive environment, profits fell, grocer