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Walmart's dominance of biz world reflects enduring proposition of physical retail
Last week news emerged that Walmart had yet again topped the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's biggest companies -- for the third consecutive year -- with sales of USÂ $482 billion last year.
Courtesy: Fortune
The fact that the planet's...
Retail
Amazon lets Indian SMEs dive into Black Friday, Cyber Monday promotions
Amazon.com, the world's largest online retailer, for the first time has enabled over 5,000 Indian sellers to participate in the ongoing Christmas shopping season sales in the US -- Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Over 5,000 Indian sellers would be...
Retail
Global retail gets boost from Cognizant’s Intellipeak
Cognizant Technology Solutions has announced that in 2010 it helped global retailers successfully manage the peak shopping season. Using Intellipeak, a business process as a service (BPaaS) platform, Cognizant supported more than a dozen retailers across three continents in...
Retail
Online retailers poised for strong holiday season
In recent years, online retailers have become an increasingly popular destination for holiday shoppers. And the coming holiday season holds even better news for them. Forrester Research, a technology and market research company that provides pragmatic advice to global...
Fashion & Lifestyle
PAF organized a unique workshop
Pearl Academy of Fashion, recently organized an interactive and unique workshop on Careers - Growth Path in Creative Industries at its premises for school counsellors and teachers. The workshop was organized to discuss the growth opportunities in creative industries...
Fashion & Lifestyle
Biyani joins NY Fashion Advisory Board
The face of India`s modern retail, Kishore Biyani, is now set to advise fashionistas of the high streets of New York. The Managing Director and CEO of Pantaloon Retail, Biyani has become a member of the New York Fashion...
Retail
NRF forecasts U.S. holiday sales rise of 2.3 per cent
After a ho-hum 2009 and a disastrous 2008, U.S. holiday retail sales are expected to increase a more moderate 2.3 per cent this year to $447.1 billion, according to the National Retail Federation. While that growth remains slightly lower...
Retail
US stores cautious in spite of robust results
US retailers, including Walmart, will give a further reading of the state of US consumer confidence this week as they start the sector’s reporting of earnings for the important holiday quarter.Overall monthly sales have remained significantly below pre-crisis levels,...
Progressive Grocer
Exuberance and Despair
In the last few months, I’ve interacted with retailers and their suppliers from a number of countries in North America, Europe and Asia and, except for a handful, the conversations have not been happy.In November-December companies in France, Belgium,...
Retail
Wal-Mart takes action to end forced child labor in Uzbekistan
Wal-Mart Stores Inc has instructed its global supply base to cease sourcing cotton and cotton materials from Uzbekistan in an effort to persuade the Uzbek government to end the use of forced child labor in cotton harvesting.This action follows...
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How airports are changing the retail store placement game
Strategic store placement in airports is key to maximising visibility, capturing impulse purchases, and enhancing the traveller's shopping experience...
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