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The sales story remains the same for Buckle
The Buckle shows no signs of slowing down. The consumer may be pulling back everywhere else in America, but not at The Buckle. Same-store sales rose 34.7 percent in May.…
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Interesting insights from a savvy retailer
While I was in Bend, Oregon last week, I met with Roberta Johnson, who owns Sports Vision Bend, a specialty sunglass store downtown, with her partner, Todd Johnson. Roberta is…
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Orange 21 rejects No Fear bid
Orange 21, the parent company of Spy Optic, filed a document today stating that it has rejected a proposal from No Fear Retail Stores Inc. to merge. In the document,…
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Hollister's pricing strategy and fashion plans
Retail sales may have fallen off a cliff, but Abercrombie & Fitch, the owner of surf industry competitor Hollister, refuses to cut prices. It's a contrarian strategy at the moment…
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Pent up demand could help retail sales
There's an interesting survey out today that says more shoppers plan to shop on the day and weekend after Thanksgiving than last year. Also, more people said they will be…
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More details on Tom Kennedy's resignation from PacSun
A few more details emerged yesterday about the departure of PacSun division President Tom Kennedy during a Pacific Sunwear presentation at a Wedbush Morgan Securities investor conference. The PacSun division…
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Core stores hit hard in November
Cary Allington of ActionWatch sent new data for November that showed sales at core stores in the ActionWatch panel continued to deteriorate in November compared with November 2007.
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ICRX Report: American Apparel's basics approach includes more store openings in 2009
American Apparel CEO Dov Charney hopped up to say hello to the crowd at the ICR XChange this morning and then turned the show over to Adrian Kowalewski, who was…
News May 13, 2013Steve Murray on changes in VF's structure
I followed up with Vans President Steve Murray to ask what yesterday's restructuring at VF means for VF and its brands and for Steve's role at Vans. He provided some…
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