- Mark Levin Signs Multi-year Deal with ABC, Expands Show to 3 Hours
- Consumerist.com Adopted by Old-School Consumers Union, Stops Selling Ads
- For Auto Industry, 2009 Holds Even Tighter Ad Budgets
- User-Generated Magazine Publisher 8020 Media Shuts Doors
- Out-of-Home, Fueled by Digital, to Weather Recession Well
- Clear Channel Swaps Cincy Stations for Five in Green Bay
- Consumers Swarm to Discounters for Grocery Items, Don’t Switch Back
- Wikimedia Raises $6.2M to Keep Wikipedia Afloat
- Conde Nast’s Jan. Ad Pages Slip More than Most
- Aegis Faces Possible Sale or Spin-off of Non-core Businesses
- Top US Cities for Charitable Givers, by Category
- Online Fitness, Video Game Spending Outperforms Brick-And-Mortar
- RIM Must Fix Glitches, Boost Satisfaction To Hold Off iPhone
- LCD TV Revenue to Fall YoY for First Time Ever
- Top 10 Broadcast Media Websites - November 2008
- Top 10 Entertainment Online Advertisers by Image-Based Impressions - November 2008
- Top 10 Sports Websites - November 2008
- Eight in 10 Online Holiday Shoppers Read Web Reviews
- Top 40 Online Retail Satisfaction Index: Merry Outlook for Some, but Not Others
- Firefox Share Tops 20% in November
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Retailers’ Balance Sheets Tell All
As holiday season sales results come rolling in, analysts stipulate that the downturn in sales may push even more retailers into bankruptcy court. But sales trends are not the only measure of a retailer’s health, Barron’s writes.
To distinguish the companies with promise from those that are truly in danger of going under, it examined other factors on the corporate balance sheet, like ratios of...
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Wal-Mart Only Retail Winner in Bleak Christmas Shopping Season
Wal-Mart is the only real retail winner during the 2008 holiday shopping season, which is presaging more retail bankruptcies in the year ahead, according to C. Britt Beemer, CEO of America’s Research Group (ARG), who issued his 2008 “Winners and Losers” list of retailers.
The “Winners and Losers” (complete list below) are determined by how well they did in retaining Christmas customers from...
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Macy’s Stores to Stay Open 24 Hours
Thirteen Macy’s stores will be open 24 hours a day through Christmas Eve, including stores in Connecticut, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, and Illinois, reports the Chicago Tribune.
The retailer first tested the open-all-night store concept in 2006 in Queens, NY, and last year undertook several such efforts, expanding it further this year.
Just 15% of shoppers had completed their...
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Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy Have ‘Best’ Holiday Ads; Emotional Ads Resonate
Asked which retailer has the best holiday TV commercial, consumers ranked Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Macy’s, and Kohl’s as favorites, according to a survey conducted for the NRF’s Retail Advertising and Marketing Association by BIGresearch.
Other retailers on the top 10 list include Sears, Kmart, JCPenney, Old Navy, and Toys “R” Us.
Well-known celebrities, “True Story” campaigns, children’s...
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State of U.S. Same Store Sales - November 2008 Data Update
RetailerDaily has compiled comparable store sale data from the SEC filings of ten major U.S. retailers spanning 2007 and 2008 up to the most recently released November numbers. The data excludes fuel sales (which would have distorted numbers because of high gas inflation in 2008) and is available in Excel format from the link below:
Among the highlights this year, Wal-Mart shows more...
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Black Friday vs. Cyber Monday: Shoppers Searching for Best Holiday Deals
Cyber Monday seems to be gaining steam, with 26% of respondents intending to shop on the Monday after Thanksgiving, up from 20% saying so in 2007, according to a Maritz Poll.
However, 41% of respondents say they will shop on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, slightly more than the 37% who said so in 2007, Maritz found.
Gen Y* (53%) and Gen X (46%) are more likely to shop Black Friday...
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October Retail Sales Roundup
As October sales figures poured in from retailers, same-store sales for the category fell 0.9% - the first real drop in seven months. Excluding the effect of the shifting Easter holiday, however, it is the first decline since at least 2000, according to Retail Metrics (via The New York Times).
Excluding Wal-Mart, the drop would have been 4.2%, according to the International Council of Shopping...
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Macy’s Yanks Magazine Ads for First Half ‘09
Macy’s has canceled its magazine advertising spending for the first half of 2009 according to several publishers - though the retailer has declined to confirm the report, AdAge writes (via MediaBuyerPlanner).
http://www.retailerdaily.com/entry/macys-reports-58-sales-decline-lowers-profit-forecastMacy’s same-store sales declined 3.2% in the first 8 months of the year, and it projects that...
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Online Retailers Countenance Facebook
Online retailers tend to prefer Facebook over other social-media sites, according to an eMarketer report that cites a study from Internet Retailer and Vovici, which found that 32% of responding businesses have a Facebook page (via AllFacebook.com).
Social-media sites on which US Online retailers have a page, as of Sept. ‘08, according to the IR/Vovici study:
Facebook, 32% MySpace, 27% YouTube,...Continue Reading »
Facing Tough Holiday Season, Bloomingdale’s Promotes Luxury, ‘Fun’
Many holiday season retail campaigns are stressing value and affordability to lure cash-constrained shoppers, but others - like Macy’s New York-based Bloomingdale’s - are promoting luxury brands and invoking feelings from past “good times,” writes the New York Times.
Infiniti, Nissan’s luxury car model, will sponsor Bloomingdale’s holiday windows at the flagship 59th Street store in Manhattan....
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