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Lack of resources to stop retailers selling vapes to London children
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Modern slavery victims being 'exploited in plain sight' across UK retail sector
Modern slavery victims are being 'exploited in plain sight' across the UK retail sector, filling supermarket shelves and staffing convenience store checkouts, a new report warns. Analysis from anti-slavery charity Unseen reveals that reported…
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…
Gas War: Retailer Introduces Motor Oil Rationing
Reports have claimed that Costco has been forced to raise the price on its Kirkland Signature oil blends and will even be rationing how much customers can purchase within a given timeframe. This has led to subsequent concerns that other major…
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…
Genuine Parts Company (GPC) Presents at Goldman Sachs Global Consumer and Retail Conference Transcript
Genuine Parts Company (GPC) Goldman Sachs Global Consumer and Retail Conference September 15, 2026 1:20 PM EDT William Stengel - CEO & Chairman Herbert Nappier - Executive VP and Chief Financial & Operating Officer Katharine McShane - Goldman Sachs…
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…
Capri Holdings Limited (CPRI) Presents at Goldman Sachs Global Consumer and Retail Conference Transcript
Capri Holdings Limited (CPRI) Goldman Sachs Global Consumer and Retail Conference September 15, 2026 10:00 AM EDT Tyler Reddien - Executive VP, CFO & COO Brooke Roach - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.…
Plaza Retail REIT Announces September 2026 Distribution
Plaza Retail REIT is a leading retail property owner and developer, focused on Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada, with total assets of +/- $1.0 billion. Plaza's properties include a mix of strip plazas, stand-alone small box retail outlets and…
Dollar General Corporation (DG) Presents at Goldman Sachs Global Consumer and Retail Conference Transcript
Dollar General Corporation (DG) Goldman Sachs Global Consumer and Retail Conference September 15, 2026 10:45 AM EDT Kevin Walker - Vice President of Investor Relations Emily Taylor - Chief Operating Officer Katharine McShane - Goldman Sachs Group…
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…
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