PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

WBR Digital and eTail just released a new benchmarking report on retail omnichannel adoption. The report is based on the responses of 98 executives from multiple sectors — specialty retail, stand apparel, high-end fashion and more — who are all leaders in either multichannel, pure-play, in-store only or other types of retail.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The new benchmark 6.54%-2032 bond yield ended 14 basis points higher at 6.8279%, compared to 6.6841%. The old benchmark 6.10%-2031 bond yield ended 16 basis points up at 6.8458%, as against 6.6829% close on Monday.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In retailing, as a Nobel laureate once wrote (and sort of sang!), “the times they are a-changin” — a sentiment that extends handily to gift cards. Unless retailers make it hard. And surprisingly, a number of retailers are missing the boat when it comes to digital gifting. The First Number — 10. And far from a perfect 10.

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CFO News

AUGUST 6, 2023

Reliance Retail has crossed the milestone of a billion transactions in FY23 and its registered customer base reached 249 million, said the latest annual report of Reliance Industries. In FY23, Reliance Retail's digital commerce and new commerce businesses contributed to 18 per cent of its revenue, which stood at Rs 2.60 lakh crore.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Growth in employment continued in leisure and hospitality, professional and business services, retail trade, and transportation and warehousing. Survey data have been revised as a result of an annual benchmarking process and the updating of seasonal adjustment factors. Biggest Job Gains by Industry. of the January total of 467,000.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

In a plan that frames a phased-in approach to opening retail again, the National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) debuted a Blueprint for Shopping Safe. And the third phase is to “establish protection, then lift all restrictions” per the announcement. Macy’s Inc. and TGI Fridays Inc.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Black Friday sales stretched across the entire month of November as retailers launched special deals as early as Nov. Our Payment Optimization Framework provides a data-driven approach to continuously monitoring, benchmarking and optimizing payment acceptance,” Smith said. .

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2020

A new advocacy group dedicated to direct-to-consumer retail was announced this week with representation from Google and several major retailers including QVC, Brooks Brothers and Lane Bryant. It foresees a short-term evolution of retailing to an all-DTC world.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

China lowered its new benchmark lending rate on Wednesday, in an attempt to give a boost to the slowing economy and reduce funding costs. This wasn’t the first time that the one-year LPR was lowered—it has been lowered thrice since it became the official lending benchmark in August. The PBOC injected a net 80 billion yuan ($25.68

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

There’s brick-and-mortar retail, where competition is so fierce that the media has branded it “the grocery wars.” So, what made Benchmark Capital confident enough to put $50 million behind Good Eggs, a San Francisco-based, curated, on-demand grocery store specializing in “absurdly fresh” local meats and produce?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

The two most powerful forces shaping the future of retail payments have nothing to do with payments at all. It’s a world in which new retail models and new places to shop have emerged to satisfy that need, blending the online and offline worlds in ways that benefit the digital and marginalize the physical – at least as it operates today.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Along with the latest on payroll employment, unemployment, and wage growth, we will also get the final benchmark revisions for the establishment survey (CES). Preliminary benchmark revisions suggest job growth will be even stronger over the last two years than the 11.2 million previously reported.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The company aims to boost retailers' ability to gather inventory for their stores. The MENAP region has a significant opportunity to increase its economic prosperity by unlocking the productivity delta that exists between the region and global benchmarks," they said in a statement.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

No longer are retailers working with marketers to figure out a way to mass market products and services. With the advent of connected devices in the palm of almost every consumer’s hand, the retail ecosystem has certainly seen a shift. Through this omnichannel experience, retailers have more ways to connect with consumers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2020

Department of Commerce released its retail sales results for March, showing record-setting declines due to changes in consumer behavior and the COVID-19 lockdown. But in the details, retailers can see the damage done to some sectors and the advantage gained by others. Overall sales fell 8.7 Clothing stores dropped 50.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

It provides a performance score and benchmarks against industry best practices and provides customized recommendations to meet the challenge, Mastercard said. Fortunately, Cadore quickly pivoted her business to focus on online sales and partnerships with online retailers.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 2, 2023

That family office was created to manage the assets of Julius Rosenwald, who had steered Sears into a retailing giant and took them public in 1906. Over his 32-year tenure, the fund has beaten 100% of peers, and outperformed the Russell 2000 benchmark by 3.49% annually, and has more than doubled the performance of the S&P 500.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2017

A new study from Oracle revealed that consumers are more willing to engage with brands that offer new retail technology if they are able to exert control over their experience. This signals brands to focus on building a strong foundation to win trust.

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Retail Technology Benchmarking Marketing 40

PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

Single consumers are a force of nature as well when it comes to retail. Single people, often neglected by many retailers – at least based on complaints and stereotypes found online – seem to be getting fresh attention in this era of online and mobile shopping, and shopping clubs. Take Costco, for instance. Singles’ Day.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Prices of durables have been falling for five straight months ( Wall Street Journal ) • US retail lobbyists retract key claim on ‘organized’ retail crime : The main lobbying group for U.S. It produced the report in collaboration with private security firm K2 Integrity. The FDA Is In Its Way.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

based retailers slipped more than had been forecast last month. It should be noted that this is one of the last “major” economic reports being released ahead of the Federal Reserve’s meeting next week and may presage a continued reticence to raise benchmark interest rates (and risk choking off consumer spending even more).

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 21, 2022

For consumer brands doing business in China, no date on the retail calendar carries more weight than November 11, also known as Singles’ Day. Today, the event is the pinnacle of the global retail calendar, with over 290,000 brands offering 17 million products to over 1 billion annual active consumers across Alibaba’s ecosystem this year.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Retailers like Amazon, Walmart and Target have figured out that if they get you your online order today, you will probably spend more tomorrow. ( Pour yourself a mug of Colombia Tolima Los Brasiles Peaberry Organic coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: You Want That Gift to Arrive Today?

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Mansur announced plans to hike the benchmark rate by 50 basis points to 9%, and stated that rates would hit 10% within the coming months. In September, the PBoC cut its benchmark seven-day interest rate by 20 basis points to 1.5% Retail inflation eased to 3.54% in July from 5.08% in June, versus a market consensus of 3.65%.

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Accountancy Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

Continuously updated with consumer reviews of emerging products, Foodfax is an indispensable resource for both brands and retailers, allowing benchmarking of new products against category norms.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In data that will likely surprise anyone who has avidly watched retail over the last few years, the market is trending strongly toward same-day delivery. According to the “2017 Digital Commerce Benchmark Survey,” conducted by Boston Retail Partners (BRP), some 65 percent of retailers will offer same-day delivery within the next two years.

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Retail Benchmarking Forecasting Marketing 40

Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

billion (about $464 million) IPO for discount grocery retailer Boxer. In the debt business, the bank posted a commanding 40% of Polish market transactions, having participated in the arrangement and placement of all the major bond deals in the local market, including all benchmark transactions for key domestic corporates.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The report noted that the uptick in usage is being driven by an increase in spending limits and speedy expansion of contactless payments at retailers. Fashion retailers in particular have seen a big move away from chip and pin to mobile contactless payments , while betting stores and department stores are also seeing an increase.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

These are tough times to be tangible — as in brick-and-mortar, in retailing at least. The physical retailer is constrained by square footage, the hybrid retailer joining on an eCommerce platform less so, especially with the drop shipping. The upshot is that, through the drop-ship model, they do not need to hold more inventory.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 5, 2025

Retail and e-commerce Companies must follow tax and consumer protection laws, ensuring customers receive fair pricing and honest business practices. Some best practices include: Benchmarking Compare your reporting processes with industry leaders to identify areas for improvement.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Wholesale distributors face “massive complexity,” according to the release, having to juggle numerous products and customers, along with challenges from new startups or nontraditional types of retail.

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CFO News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The RBI has kept rates unchanged since raising the benchmark repo rate to 6.5% Despite a slight decrease in CPI-based retail inflation in August, it remains above the RBI's target of 6%. in February.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

Amazon Prime might have been a good little idea, the naysayers nay-said, but once shoppers have to start shelling out higher fees for the privilege of faster shipping, those “loyal” customers would run into the waiting arms of the retailers they’d left behind. That figure creeps up to a near-total 96 percent.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

And in the retail world, apparently, that holds as well. Apparently, while it may seem like a no-brainer, consumers are both happy and loyal when brands deliver on what they feel they were promised from a retailer. Retailers need to deliver what they promised consumers. Bottom line?

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Retail Benchmarking Advertising Marketing 40

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

A retailer and a cement company don’t have the same needs or strategies. By implementing these ambitious but tangible KPIs, Saur in 2021 raised €950 million (US$1 billion) in environmental, social, and governance bonds, the first water company to reach that benchmark. Industry and Ecosystem Transformations.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

Retail earnings may have long been looked upon as a benchmark for measuring the growth of the economy but not anymore. The shift in calibration comes as signs of weakening sales in the earnings reports of numerous major retailers were counteracted by the U.S economy — retail.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2016

How poorly these department stores are doing shows up blazingly in a new eMarketer report, “Department Stores and Digital Commerce 2016: Trends and Benchmarks.” Of course, higher-end and luxury retailers tend to do better than the lower end due to their consumers being more interested and likely to digitally purchase items.

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