An Australian home improvement joint venture between Woolworths Ltd and Lowe's Companies Inc has found sites for new stores, passing what analysts said was a major hurdle in its expansion.
Britain's second-largest department stores chain, Debenhams, said it was considering acquisitions, while forecasting full-year profit in line with its previous expectations.
Asda, Britain's second biggest supermarket chain, said it had become the first High Street retailer in the country to launch an Asian clothing range, in response to growing customer demand.
Italian online fashion retailer Yoox's decision to float on the Italian bourse by Christmas does not mean the IPO market will re-open to luxury groups that have been waiting to list for more than a year.
Supermarket group Sainsbury is set to appoint David Tyler, current chairman of technology services company Logica, as its new chairman.
A European importers' association urged the European Union to scrap its anti-dumping duties against Chinese and Vietnamese shoes, ahead of a decision on whether to prolong the measures.
On the edge of the Bangladeshi capital's diplomatic zone and surrounding upmarket suburbs, the grey giant box-shaped Jamuna Future Park shopping mall is difficult to miss.
John Lewis, the employee-owned department store and Waitrose supermarket group, said it was targeting a 70 million pound ($116.1 million) increase in its online fashion sales by 2011.
It has been 20 years since G-Star first stepped out onto the scene. For its anniversary the brand is setting up a pop-up store in the heart of the Big Apple from the 14th to the 16th of September.
Trading updates from four of the country's biggest retailers next week will shed more light on the strength of the nascent consumer recovery.
Italian online fashion retailer Yoox's decision to float on the Italian bourse by Christmas does not mean the IPO market will re-open to luxury groups that have been waiting to list for more than a year.
Otto Beisheim Group said it was quitting an investor pact in German retailer Metro to be freer about what to do with its 18.5 percent stake but would remain a major shareholder.
Meet the Piggy Shoppers, the Discount Rats and the Bloodsuckers -- all of them customers who shop at fine stores, terrorize the sales staff and now are exposed in a new book, "Retail Hell."
Real estate broker Jones Lang LaSalle is to sell the Silverburn shopping mall in Glasgow, Scotland, in a deal that may spark the mass transfer of distressed assets to the UK commercial property market.
Luxury fashion brands are wafting into Singapore in droves, betting on the city-state's ambitions of becoming a playground for Asia's super-rich as it recovers from its worst-ever recession.
