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Outdoor retailer Patagonia puts environment ahead of sales growth
High-end outdoor clothier and gear maker Patagonia Inc. is out to prove that a company can generate strong sales while being nearly fanatical about environmental concerns.
The Ventura company was the first major clothier to make fleece jackets out of...Tags: Climbing, Companies and Corporations, Charity, Fashion Trends, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Mom: The $18.6-billion economic machine
Besides Christmas, there’s nothing quite like the Mother’s Day shopping scramble: $3.4 billion on brunch or dinner, $1.6 billion on clothing an accessories, $1.3 billion on getaways and pampering, all amounting to a big $18.6-billion thank you...
Tags: Holidays, Gifts, Consumer Confidence, Services and Shopping, Target
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Mother's Day is the second-highest gift-giving day of the year
All The RageIn only a few hours, it will be May and that means a lot of interesting dates coming up. Tuesday, for instance, is May Day, which could mean something sweet, like leaving posies on a friend's doorstep, or something strong, like participating in a worker's... -
Reports show optimism about international trade growth in 2012
The International Monetary Fund released a report that said there could be a downturn in global trade this year, but a number of other surveys and analyses have come to more positive conclusions. A recent survey of more than 50 global retail...
Tags: Globalization, International Monetary Fund, Consumer Confidence, Imports, Philosophy
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For Easter, Americans will spend $16.8 billion -- $145.28 each
Between the chocolate eggs, the pastel fashions and the flowers, American consumers are going to spend $16.8 billion on celebrating Easter Sunday on April 8. And that doesn’t even include paying for increasingly expensive gasoline to get to church....
Tags: E-Commerce Industry, Easter, Holidays, Religious Festivals, Super Bowl
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Retail Roundup: St. Patrick's Day, Nordstrom app, Marni on EBay
--Bartenders will have something to cheer on St. Patrick's Day, March 17: More than half of Americans plan to celebrate the Irish holiday this year, plunking down an estimated $4.6 billion for their revelries, according to a National Retail Federation...Tags: Joseph Abboud, St. Patrick's Day, Holidays, Apple iPad, Computer Hardware
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Money Minute: A day for romance ... and spending [Video]
Happy Valentine's Day. It's an occasion for romance and love, right?
Yeah. But it's also an occasion for big business.
The average American will pony up about $126.04 to mark the day, according to the National Retail Federation. That's up more than 8.5%...Tags: Holidays
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Retail group raises holiday sales forecast as stores extend hours
Money & CompanyThe nation's largest retail group is raising its sales forecast for the holiday season, with just nine days to go until Christmas and shoppers out in force at malls around the country.... -
Consumer Confidential: Chase disclosure, retail sales, Toys R Us
Money & CompanyHere's your thank-the-lord-for-the-nighttime Thursday roundup of consumer news from around the Web: — From the Better Late Than Never file: Chase bank is making its checking accounts easier for customers to understand. The bank says it will start... -
Retail roundup: Jason Wu for Target, Valentine's Day, Macy's
--Target Corp.'s eagerly anticipated collaboration with Jason Wu is rolling out this Sunday in stores and online.
Best known for dressing First Lady Michelle Obama for the inaugural ball, Wu is but the latest designer to pair up with the cheap-chic chain...Tags: Football, Homes, Target Brands, Inc., Macy's, Super Bowl
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Retail sales to climb 3.4% in 2012, report predicts
Despite high unemployment and volatile global markets, retail sales are estimated to rise a modest 3.4% in the new year, a survey says.
That's below the 4.7% growth that the retail industry saw in 2011, according to industry group National Retail...Tags: The Home Depot, Consumer Goods Industries, Economic Indicator, Consumer Confidence, Consumer Goods Industries
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Google plans to merge more user data across its products
TechnologyGoogle is alerting hundreds of millions of users of its products that it's changing the way it treats users' data, combining even more information it knows about them from all of its products, from Gmail to YouTube....
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