Stephen Ross, Kmart's senior vice president, general merchandise manager of soft lines, envisions that Martha Stewart will overnight become the largest soft home retail brand in the country, if not the world. "This is going to be one of the single biggest feats of shipping in the United States," Ross...
Feb. 27--MUMBAI, India -- Shopper's Stop and HyperCITY Retail, the two retail ventures of K Raheja group, on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding with UK's leading retail chain Home Retail group to develop the Argos retail format stores in Ind Feb. 27--MUMBAI, India -- Shopper's...
The onward march of Argos seems to have come to a halt. In a trading update for the 14 weeks to 6 January 2007, Home Retail, which was spun out of GUS in 2006, announced that like-for-like sales at catalogue retailer Argos had risen by just...
Excite@Home announced agreements with retailers The Good Guys!, Brisbane, Calif., and Office Depot, Delray Beach, Fla., for in-store promotion and sales of its high-speed cable Internet service. The @Home Retail Merchandising Program is expected to be in 250 stores by year's end. At the stores, potential customers will be able...
GUS has announced details of its demerger plans, and released prospectuses for the two new businesses: Argos Retail Group now renamed Home Retail Group and Experian. Experian plans to raise GBP800m via a new share issue. Around GBP600m of this will GUS has announced details of...
Credit-checking and data business Experian has set out its store following the de-merger of Argos owner Home Retail see above and, on the whole, prospects look pretty good. Organic sales growth came in at 7 per cent and advances were made in all re Credit-checking and...
Helen Tomlinson has been appointed category planning controller for out of home retail at pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline. Tomlinson, who takes up her new role on April 24, joins GSK from biscuit, confectionery and snack manufacturer Button's Helen Tomlinson has been appointed category planning controller for...
Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. reported a net loss of $1.4 million for the second quarter compared to a net loss of $388,000 last year, due largely to weakness in home. Weakness in home was "primarily due to a decrease in sales of ...
In a recent conference call discussing the second quarter performance, Vanessa Castagna, chairman and ceo of JCPenney stores, catalog and Internet said that home was a leader in the department store's merchandise groups paced by the expanded housew In a recent conference call discussing...
At PMA 2006, Hewlett-Packard Co. HP, Palo Alto, Calif., showed the world its commitment to the printing of digital photographs in all their incarnations. In June, HP agreed to buy Switzerland-based Silverwire Holding AG, a digital photography softw At PMA 2006, Hewlett-Packard Co. HP, Palo Alto,...
Wal-Mart Stores has announced that Don Harris, evp, general merchandise, for the Wal-Mart Stores division, is retiring after 23 years with the company. He will stay on until April 30, 2004, to help in the transition of his responsibilities. As a re Wal-Mart Stores...
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