The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA), America's largest and most respected footwear trade association, partnered with the firm Elevate to produce its 5th Factory Survey Analysis. The recently completed report provides ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Economy, Footwear
BBC TV's Fake Britain programme - highlighting the illegal and unsafe mattresses on sale through major high street retailers - has catapulted the National Bed Federation's (NBF) new Code of Practice and Mark of Approval into the limelight. ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
An odour-absorbing label could solve the problem of confinement odour and cut returns for retailers selling packaged meats, seafood, poultry and even vegetables. Innovative food packaging development company Sirane has launched a ...
The “Sweetest Comeback in the History of Ever” continues as more delicious Hostess snack cakes return to store shelves all across the country. Just three months after its iconic treats officially returned, Hostess is bringing ...
Tags: Snack Cake, Food
Upholstery suppliers are telling their product stories in myriad ways at the Las Vegas Market, and they're giving their dealers the tools to do the same. From integrated showroom vignettes to multifunctional product designs, manufacturers ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Upholstery suppliers are telling their product stories in myriad ways at the Las Vegas Market, and they're giving their dealers the tools to do the same. From integrated showroom vignettes to multifunctional product designs, manufacturers ...
Tags: Upholstery, Las Vegas Market
THE highly anticipated crowd-funded Ouya Android videogame console yesterday hit the market in the US and almost instantly sold out. Ouya is a gaming console project on crowd-funding site Kickstarter that raised $US8.5 million and ...
The toy industry will face one of its most aggressive fourth quarter trading periods this year. Retail giants including nationals, grocers and online sites such as Amazon are set to cut toy prices below RRP in a battle for market share ...
Tags: Toys, toy industry, Christmas Toys
Aggressive price cutting happens every Christmas in the toy industry. We know this – before anyone points out that we're maybe stating the bleedin' obvious with this month's cover story. However, no one has ever previously predicted ...
One in five shops will close over the next five years says new survey. A new report has warned that 20 per cent of stores could disappear altogether from UK High Streets, as more people shop online. The Centre for Retail Research ...
Tags: Toys, Street Store
Toy retailers selling Bigjigs stock on third-party websites like Amazon, eBay and Play.com have two weeks to pull the product listings - or be cut off by the supplier. Earlier this year, manufacturer, distributor and wholesaler Bigjigs ...
Tags: Bigjigs, Toy retailers, Toy
7,337 stores closed in 2012, according to figures from PwC and the Local Data Centre. An average of 20 shops closed every day in the UK last year. Figures from PwC and the Local Data Centre also found that 7,337 UK stores closed over ...
The crowd-funded Ouya videogame console seeking to shake up a market dominated by Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo is gearing up for a US debut in June. The team behind Ouya has begun taking online pre-orders for the Android-powered devices ...
Microsoft today opened its virtual store and began selling upgrades to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99, making good on a promise made last summer. The upgrade, which must be downloaded and installed via a utility called "Windows 8 Upgrade ...
Tags: Microsoft, virtual store, Windows 8 Pro, Upgrade Assistant
Google has started shipping units of the highly anticipated Nexus 7 tablet, but multiple retailers said the tablet has sold out and that they are struggling to fill orders. GameStop has pulled the Nexus 7 tablet order page from its ...
Tags: Google, Nexus 7, tablet, multiple retailers