163 ordspråk av Howard Davidowitz
Howard Davidowitz
Other holidays have become less important. Halloween is the exception. It has become more important.
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Over the last year, they lost $60 million,
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Penney had no choice but to improve on fashion.
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Retail sales will remain anemic for the year for most retailers. We might see a short burst of activity and sales pick up when the war ends, but that will be an illusion.
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Retailers are going to promote like gangbusters from the first minute, and it's going to affect margins, ... I think at best it's going to be fair.
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Retailers are going to promote like gangbusters from the first minute, and it's going to affect margins. I think at best it's going to be fair.
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Retailers have planned their inventories very well again this year but there's no point in that if you get can't shoppers into your store, ... Expect substantial deals as we go along, especially in clothing and consumer electronics.
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Retailers have planned their inventories very well again this year but there's no point in that if you get can't shoppers into your store. Expect substantial deals as we go along, especially in clothing and consumer electronics.
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SARS has not stopped factories from rolling out products in China, ... The only effect it's had on U.S. businesses is that it has led to fewer visits from buyers to the region. So there have been less face-to-face meetings between buyers and suppliers, but companies have gotten around that by teleconferencing.
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Sears is a shaken-up company, and who knows when it will recover, ... are wonderful.
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Sears is an American institution that's getting beaten up, ... The company is trying everything it can to stay in business but it's still losing market share everywhere.
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Sears said it's giving back about $4 billion from the sale to its shareholders in buybacks and [a] dividend increase. This is crazy. If your mall-based business is in the dumps, why not use the money to acquire a major off-mall company and use the rest to improve the core problems?
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So there's no sense on Federated spending time turning things around at Lord & Taylor when the main event for Federated is the integration of May stores.
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Some retailers are already marking up 40- to 50-percent off signs as we speak.
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Specialty apparel is a very fast-moving business. It's also a fickle business of fashion and creativity where the winners are those retailers who can constantly reinvent themselves and their products.
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