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- Category Killer
- a major organization that puts out of business smaller or more specialized companies in a given field by offering goods or services at a lower price, or by using its...
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- Today's Troubles Only Enhance Bed, Bath & Beyond's Prospects
- Times may be tough, but when they turn around, Bed, Bath & Beyond should be sitting pretty. Analysts and pundits beat up on the specialty store retailer when it cut back its quarterly forecast. Certainly, the company is in a tough sector, home furnishings and housewares, that...
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
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- Sears' category killer: The Great Indoors aims for 'the best selection in bedroom and bath.'(Sears, Roebuck and Co.)
- Sears, Roebuck and Co. category killer The Great Indoors will focus on diversity as its main marketing strategy. The Great Indoors provides a greater selection of merchandise and brands that are not carried by Sears department stores. The store signed on Sears, Roebuck and Co. category killer The Great Indoors...
- Research articles 1998-03-02
- A place for everything: Lillian Vernon aims to become the category killer of catalogs.
- NEW YORK -- Lillian Vernon aims to be more than a one-hit wonder. The cataloger, with $240 million in sales in 1996, is moving beyond its image as an item merchant seeking to become the category killer of catalogs. "We cover every nook and...
- Research articles 1997-11-17
- Kimberly-Clark looses 'Bounty killer'; New Scott Towels line improvement takes aim at P&G.(new Scott Towels may hurt Procter and Gamble Co. market share)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Kimberly-Clark Corp. is launching an improved version of its value-priced Scott Towels dubbed internally ``the Bounty killer'' because it scores the same as Procter & Gamble Co.'s category-leading premium-price brand in consumer satisfaction tes Kimberly-Clark Corp. is launching an improved version of its value-priced...
- Research articles 2001-04-02
- Big is better. (Home Express plans ambitious expansion)
- Home Express is a growing 'category killer' retail home furnishings chain that plans to operate 33 stores by the end of 1995, and open up to 14 stores a year in the future. The company was founded in 1986 in Fremont, CA and offers a wide range of merchandHome Express...
- Research articles 1995-09-11
- Toys R Us Remodels Stores to Woo Customers, Make Shopping Easier.(Originated from The Kansas City Star, Mo.)
- Nov. 28--When Toys R Us launched the "category killer" style of retailing more than 40 years ago, its stores were about as attractive as the cardboard boxes in which its toys were shipped. Nov. 28--When Toys R Us launched the "category killer"...
- Research articles 1997-11-28
- Sears taps Strouds exec. (Strouds executive Mark Grand to join Sears as vice president of home fashions)(Brief Article)
- NEW YORK--When Mark Grand, the top merchandising executive of Strouds, joins Sears as divisional vice president of home fashions next month, he will be leaving a textiles category-killer to continue the overhaul of a venerable institution's home goods NEW YORK--When Mark Grand, the top merchandising executive of...
- Research articles 1995-09-25
- DVD growing at Wal-Mart; VHS hangs in.(Brief Article)
- Category killer Wal-Mart is making an aggressive play for the exploding DVD market without releasing its iron grip on the older VHS format. According to studio sources, the mighty mass merchant is about to expand its DVD footprint again next ...
- Research articles 2001-08-20
- Health-care superstores planned. (Med Max Inc.)
- A West Bloomfield Township pharmacist who is a former merchandising executive at Troy-based Kmart Corp. is starting a health-care "category killer," with eight stores planned around the Detroit area next year. Med Max Inc. is the brainchild A West Bloomfield Township pharmacist who is a former...
- Research articles 1996-05-06
- Home Depot to Open Second Store in Southfield, Mich.(Originated from Detroit Free Press)
- Mar. 13--Home Depot, the chain that analysts invented the term "category killer" to describe, will open its 15th Michigan store on Thursday near Northland Center. Mar. 13--Home Depot, the chain that analysts invented the term "category killer" to describe, will open its 15th Michigan store...
- Research articles 1996-03-13
- OfficeMax to OPen TriMax Super Center in Columbus, Ga., Area.(Originated from Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.)
- Nov. 11--Less than a month after Phenix City nabbed a Wal-Mart Supercenter, the Columbus area has landed another major category killer. Nov. 11--Less than a month after Phenix City nabbed a Wal-Mart Supercenter, the Columbus area has landed another major category killer....
- Research articles 1997-11-11
- Growing Video Chain Moves into Milwaukee Area, Challenges Blockbuster.(Originated from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- Dec. 24--Rapidly growing Hollywood Entertainment Corp., an Oregon-based chain that aspires to become the country's second category killer in the video rental market, plans to open 25 to 30 Hollywood Video stores in the Milwaukee area over the next Dec. 24--Rapidly growing Hollywood...
- Research articles 1996-12-24
- SASI Has More Than a Solution for Beverages & More!
- BRISTOL, Pa.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 24, 1999-- -- Stores Automated Systems, Inc. Helps Beverage Chain to Identify, Target and Market -- Stores Automated Systems Inc. SASI, retail technology leaders, has the right solution for a California "category killer," that's taking their customer-centric approach to the next level. Beverages...
- Research articles 1999-02-24
- Ball and chain: as the new CEO of the Corral West chain, Leslie Ball aims to maximize profits with systems and synergies. (Corral West Ranchwear)
- New Corral West Rachwear CEO Leslie A. Ball has improved the already-successful western wear business by remodeling store interiors, evaluating aging inventories and installing new systems. Ball, who has 20 years of experience in the retail business, says that Corral West is successful because it is both a niche marketer...
- Research articles 1995-02-20
- Hurricane Katrina becomes category 4 storm
- MIAMI AFP — Hurricane Katrina, churning in the Gulf of Mexico, was upgraded to a category four storm capable of causing major economic damage, the government weather service announced. The National Hurricane Center said that around 0515 GMT, a US Air Force plane flying over the eye of the...
- Research articles 2005-08-27
- 10 Killer Online Office Apps
- Just yesterday I found myself using Google Docs again to write a column because I wasn't sitting at my usual PC (I'd taken a new notebook to a coffee shop for testing). And I remember thinking, "Dang, this is so convenient. I wonder if I could migrate all my office...
- Blog posts 2007-08-31
- Kmart Power Centers evolve into strong contenders - includes related article on Wal-Mart
- The power center concept, as conceived by Kmart, remains one of the most innovative retail real estate strategies of the past decade and similar discount store/category-killer combination centers will spring up throughout the nation.
- Research articles 1993-12-06
- Mijenix Fix-It Utilities Wins PC Week's Best of Comdex Award; ''Norton Killer'' Fix-It Utilities 99 Wins Coveted Award From PC Week; Product Makes Major Impact At Comdex
- LAS VEGAS--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 19, 1998--Mijenix Corporation today beat out a multitude of competitors to receive the highest honor available at Fall Comdex 98. PC Week Sr. Editor Eric Lundquist honored Mijenix with the Comdex Best of Show Award in the Utilities category at a ceremony held at the Hilton Las...
- Research articles 1998-11-19
- 3G Embedded Netbooks: A Killer Product?
- Ram Krishnan submits: The relative success of Asus Eee PC has created a new product category - netbooks, also called Mobile Internet Devices (MID) or Ultra-Low Cost PCs ULPCs. Never to shy away from new product hype, ABI research has promptly come out with a forecast calling for over 200 million of...
- External links 2008-10-24
- Survival & emergency gear: emergency & survival gear is a year-round category, as 2004's litany of severe weather makes clear.(emergency preparedness)
- Under extreme conditions, emergency preparedness may have its limits. Other than being forewarned to get out of harm's way, the victims of last month's killer tsunami in south Asia could not have been ready for what occurred. And yet the lesson to be drawn from this ...
- Research articles 2005-01-15
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