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Lack of resources to stop retailers selling vapes to London children
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Top Africa Clothes Retailer Pepkor Sinks on Earnings Outlook
Pepkor Holdings Ltd. shares tumbled the most in more than three years after the South African discount clothing retailer forecast muted profit growth as the cost of building its new banking business weighs on profit. Earnings excluding certain…
How Retail Executives Are Thinking About the Holiday Shopping Season
Hello from Goldman Sachs 's Global Consumer and Retail Conference in downtown Manhattan. As investors and analysts gathered to hear from top retailers, executives spent Monday parsing everything from pricing strategies to pressured consumers and…
Children's clothing retailer Carter's is rebranding to appeal to a new generation of parents
Children's clothing brand Carter's is announcing a rebrand as it tries to keep up with the modern parent and its core customer base. The overall company has struggled over the past few years as it faces elevated product costs and tariffs, with its…
Korea Exchange after-market draws heavy retail trading, sharp volatility
Kim Ji-ho stared at his stock trading app in confusion on Monday evening. He knew that the after-hours market was opening and noticed that a stock he was interested in had risen 10 percent. But by the time he returned from the bathroom, all the…
Walmart CEO John Furner is turning the retailer's 5,200 U.S. stores into an unstoppable AI engine
As he belts the last note of his pop hit “Mystical Magical,” Benson Boone, in a white muscle tee and skintight jeans, backflips off his piano—and 10,000 people inside the Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas, erupt into…
Retail Giant Simon Bets on Real-World Connection to Revive Mall Culture
ADWEEK House: Advertising HQ brings the people shaping advertising, commerce, and media together for four days of unscripted conversations and after-hours connections. Meet us in Midtown, Oct. 5–8. Simon, the largest owner of shopping malls…
Prada Galleria Fuses Retail, Hospitality, Art, Heritage, Innovation
MILAN — Prada is making a statement in Milan's shopping arcade Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. Comprising eight floors of retail, hospitality and art, Prada Galleria connects two sides of the central octagon in the landmark 19th-century…
China's August retail sales miss forecast while investment slump deepens, piling pressure on Beijing
Retail sales grew 0.4% in August from a year earlier, slowing from 0.6% in the prior month and missing economists' forecast. For the first eight months of the year, urban fixed-asset investment shrank 7.2%, steepening from 6.7% decline in the…
United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) Presents at Goldman Sachs Global Consumer and Retail Conference Transcript
United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) Goldman Sachs Global Consumer and Retail Conference September 15, 2026 7:45 AM EDT James Alexander Douglas - CEO & Director Leah Jordan - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.…
China's retail sales weaken as spending remains sluggish
Chinese shoppers are barely spending more than they were a year ago, and the gap between what the country makes and what it buys is widening. Figures published by China's National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday showed year-on-year retail sales…
Barrhead Travel calls for business rate relief and APD freeze to support retail
Sep 15, 202608:25 GMT by Robin Murray Nicki Tempest-Mitchell speaking on a panel discussion at Travel Weekly Future of Travel. Credit Sarah Lucy Brown Barrhead Travel has reiterated its call for the government to deliver targeted business rate…
Walmart's Kathleen McLaughlin and SC Johnson's Fisk Johnson Named Sustainable Leaders of the Year by Retail Council of Canada
The award recognizes leaders who have advanced measurable environmental progress across the retail value chain, from supply chain transformation and product innovation to public health and environmental impact. McLaughlin and Johnson have each…
China retail sales growth weakens further in August
The 0.4 percent year-on-year increase in August, released by the National Bureau of Statistics, marked the second successive slowdown in growth following a one percent increase in June. It also missed the 0.8 percent lift predicted in a survey of…
Valvoline Inc. (VVV) Presents at Goldman Sachs Global Consumer and Retail Conference Transcript
Valvoline Inc. (VVV) Goldman Sachs Global Consumer and Retail Conference September 14, 2026 3:35 PM EDT Lori Flees - CEO, President & Director Mark Jordan - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division…
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