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  • Chinese Billionaire Qiu Guanghes Retailer Semir To Buy Menswear Brand Stock Resumes Trade Today

    Zhejiang Semir Garment, the Chinese youth apparel chain controlled by billionaire Qiu Guanghe, plans to acquire a domestic men's fashion chain in order to expand its product line. Semir will pay up to between 1.98 billion yuan, or $325 million, and 2.26 billion yuan for 71% of Ningbo Zhongzhe Mushang, which specializes in mid- to upper-end men's leisurewear, according to a prelimary ...

  • Tech-savvy shoppers driving big changes in retail

    HALF MOON BAY -- In the new retail frontier, 12-foot kiosks replace full-sized stores, smartphones are daily shopping companions and stores employees act as personal shoppers for every consumer who walks in to the store.The latest retail trends were discussed at the Bloomberg Next Big Thing Summit in Half Moon Bay this week, pulling the curtain back on a retail world where technology and ...

  • New owners for Bankwest HQ retail space

    PROPERTY firm Charter Hall Group and an associated superannuation fund have paid $458 million to a receiver for a Perth development which houses Bankwest's headquarters and the city centre's biggest retail ...

  • ActionAid and Hyper Island launch fake shopping website

    The tragic collapse of a Bangladeshi garment factory last April which killed more than 1000 workers has inspired ActionAid and digital training institute Hyper Island to create a fake shopping website. A fake online shopping ...

  • Empty Port Adelaide shops given new life through Renew Adelaide scheme

    START-UP businesses and entrepreneurs will be ­encouraged to set up shop in Port Adelaide under a scheme to revitalise empty buildings. Renew Adelaide is looking for creative businesses to fill three vacant shopfronts on St Vincent St from July. Interested entrepreneurs need to submit their business ideas to secure the short-terma property, which will be available rent-free on a rolling ...

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Wendy and Lucy [DVD]

Wendy and Lucy [DVD]

Kelly Reichardts Wendy and Lucy is a small, spare, and genuinely beautiful film, very much the spiritual descendent of Italian neorealism, which French film critic Andr Bazin described as an ideal synthesis between the rigor of tragic necessity and the accidental fluidity of ever ... ...

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  • CBC shuttering its lobby T-shirt shops

    The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. is getting out of its unprofitable retail business, and plans to sell its bobbleheads and retro T-shirts online rather than in its lobbies. The public broadcaster confirmed late Tuesday it would shutter its storefronts in Vancouver and Toronto, which have been open since 2004 and have never been able to turn a consistent profit. It plans to offer its wares - ...

  • Google in Chromebook retail push

    (Google) Partnerships with a number of bricks-and-mortar stores in the US and beyond are designed to help Google move its Chromebook computers into the mainstream. The Chromebook, the Google-developed notebook range with a web-based OS that promises virus-free computing and superfast boot times, is coming to a number of US chain stores this week. The entry-level $200 US Acer Chromebook (which ...

  • Media Alert Photo Opportunity - Canadian Tire Corporation President and CEO in Edmonton for new program launch at YMCA

    June 20 Canadian Tire Corporation and Jumpstart Charities will visit the YMCA Welcome Village and the Boyle Street Plaza, a new partnership facility with the YMCA located in ...

  • Ascena Retail Group Inc. Announces Participation in Oppenheimer’s 13th Annual Consumer Conference

    Annual Consumer Conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, MA on Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 12:00 pm. ET. During the presentation Ascena management will discuss, among other things, the Company's business trends and outlook and financial performance. The Ascena Retail Group investor presentation will be webcast live and can be accessed ...

  • Emiratis your shops need you

    A regional trade body is aiming to raise the number of UAE nationals working in the retail industry. The Middle East Council of Shopping Centres thinks the move will help to solve the UAE's dilemma about how to encourage more Emiratis to work in the private sector. "The shopping centre industry and the retail industry globally represents 10 per cent of the economy and here with the ...

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