Apparel & Accessories

01/04/2011 - 13:03
Report: U.S. retail sales up 3.6% year over year

A report released Tuesday by the International Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman Sachs Group said that U.S. retail sales are up 3.6% on a year-over-year basis.

01/04/2011 - 12:54
Sears names apparel head

Sears Holdings announced today that apparel veteran Lana Cain Krauter will join the company as SVP and president Sears apparel.

01/04/2011 - 11:35
Macy's growing e-commerce, adding jobs

Macy's Inc. has announced a series of organizational expansions, totaling approximately 725 new positions over the next two years, to support the growth of macys.com and bloomingdales.com.

01/03/2011 - 12:17
The Web big 2010 winner

While holiday sales overall were solid during the season just ended, a real bright spot was online where sales advanced 13% to a record level of nearly $31 billion, according to the online measurement firm comScore.

01/03/2011 - 12:14
Sales growth and challenging outlook on tap for Thursday

Retailers who report monthly sales are set to report their best December results in several years this Thursday assuming preseason forecasts and in-season upward revisions prove accurate.

12/23/2010 - 10:36
Shared Services: The boardroom dilemma

The recent global economic downturn has left its mark on the retail industry and marketplace. As global companies emerge from the recession, CXOs of various Fortune 1000 companies across the globe representing the consumer-packaged goods, retail, quick service restaurants and other sectors have passionately articulated a common set of needs: to leverage their scale, to be truly global and to use their information as an asset. These needs have led to an increased interest in a global shared services model. CXOs want to use this recovery phase to drive global shared services to consolidate, define and possibly centralize key functions and services in the company to help leverage efficiencies of scale globally, reduce costs and deliver competitive advantage.

12/22/2010 - 14:18
HSN launches iPad app

HSN announced that it has launched a new app for the Apple iPad. With the launch, HSN said it will be the only retailer offering a video-centric iPad experience that allows consumers to watch both live streaming video and 15 channels of archived video, as well as the ability to program their own channels based on their preferences.

12/22/2010 - 13:21
Aeropostale makes executive appointments

Aeropostale announced three executive appointments that realign responsibilities and strengthen its leadership team. Among the changes, Marc D. Miller, senior VP of strategic planning and new business development, has been appointed CFO.

12/22/2010 - 12:39
Online 2010 holiday winners emerge

Walmart, Target and Best Buy attracted record levels of customers to their websites during November, according to data released this week by the online measurement firm comScore. Retailers have come to expect a surge in traffic to their sites as the holiday approach and during November that proved to be the case and then some.

12/22/2010 - 11:24
Sears Canada names new CFO

Sears Canada announced that it has appointed Sharon Driscoll as SVP and CFO. Driscoll has held her current position with the company as SVP finance, since November of 2008.

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