Late last month, as the weather began to warm into a semblance of spring, teens and bargain hunters who had spent months crunching their spending surged into retailers to shop. Their activity helped push up a monthly measure of same-store sales by 3.8% in April,...
Teens and bargain hunters propelled retail sales in April, but couldn't save the industry from the dampening effects of chilly weather and continuing economic worries....
In keeping with the Caterpillar Inc. brand, the Earthmovers Campaign celebrates individuals who positively impact the world around them and who "move the earth" in their everyday lives. Dedicated, confident, and bold, an Earthmover is an individual who embodies the brand's tradition of hard...
In a partnership with New York-based Almar Sales, a manufacturer and supplier of accessories, Sam Edelman Jewelry will hit stores in September, the company announced Monday....
Nike on Monday named ZGF Architects as its architecture firm for the World Headquarters expansion project....
The second seems calculated to minimize damage to a brand by maximizing distance from the disaster. The company said it stopped doing business with the Rana Plaza factories in 2008. It promised an investigation.Wal-Mart said there was no authorized production of its clothing lines at...
Mother’s Day is about victory. That’s the message behind Famous Footwear‘s new campaign, A Letter to Mom. The company has launched a new video, celebrating how Mom makes a winning difference in our lives. The seasonal promotion also includes retail discounts that extend through Mother’s...
The report, called "Chemicals Revealed," identified more than 5,000 products such as footwear, car seats and arts and crafts supplies that include developmental or reproductive toxins and carcinogens. Those include such toxic metals as mercury, cadmium, cobalt, antimony and molybdenum. Manufacturers also reported using phthalates...
“FDRA really does deliver when it comes to making the footwear industry’s voice heard in Washington. We had a lot of high level meetings and I think we made a clear case that lowering footwear duties will help consumers and strengthen our industry,” said...
Now that Baucus has announced his retirement from Congress, presumably he has motivation to establish as part of his distinctly mixed legacy a wholesale repair of what he and Camp called a “broken” tax code...