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Current Headlines - May 23, 2012
British luxury brand Burberry hopes to insulate itself against global economic headwinds by investing in bigger stores in major cities such as London, Chicago and Hong Kong that are popular both with tourists and the super rich. Reporting another jump...
Luxottica SpA, the parent company of Oakley and Sunglass Hut, reached an agreement to buy the remaining Sun Planet retail stores, about 120 locations in Spain and Portugal. In a filing to the Italian stock exchange, the company said the...
A group of nine business leaders, including representatives from Amazon.com and Nordstrom, are backing California hedge fund manager Chris Hansen’s plan to bring a new sports arena to Seattle’s Sodo district. They announced Tuesday the formation of the Seattle/King County...
As a follow-up to my previous blog post, I continued to monitor the Gmail inbox placement for ProFlowers over the past two months. What I saw was a remarkable turnaround from the struggles the floral retailer had in February and...
Austin, Texas posted the highest percentage of retail rental growth in the country during the first quarter of 2012 with an increase of 3.4 percent, according to Cassidy Turley, a national real estate services provider. Charlotte, N.C. came in second with...
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Pinterest recently picked up a cool $100 million in funding led by Japanese online shopping giant Rakuten, placing its value in the region of $1.5 billion. That's huge — bigger than Instagram — but perhaps justified if the Pinteresting effect is...
With more than 60 million Americans forecast to own a tablet computer by the end of this year, retailers say tablets are driving an increasingly larger share of their web revenue. According to the 2012 Shop.org/Forrester Research State of Retailing...
Online spending may be increasing, but the venerable catalog is doing anything but fading away. In fact, it's still an important part of business for retailers. “It’s basically a marketing tool,” said retail analyst Eric Beder, a managing director at...
The rise of the digital consumer allows retailers to collect more information — across more channels — than ever before. Download this research report from Experian QAS to find out how retailers are enhancing customer-centric strategies to better unite data...
Online retailing has existed for nearly 20 years, and product recommendations have been around for almost as long due to the pioneering work of Amazon.com, which applied for a patent on its collaborative filtering technology in 1998. Since then, a...
An unusually mild winter this year (along with with a recovering economy) resulted in an earlier jump in search queries for garden, patio and outdoor equipment. By mid-March, query volume on Google for the outdoor and patio category had already...
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