Sexier, but in no less a commodity category, Sephora took on both the over-the-counter department store cosmetic brands and the under-wraps drug store brands and created an open-sell environment as its distinguishing brand factor.
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The 111-year-old department store and the 5-year old e-tailer have joined forces.
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The best discovery of the tour was an unknown viewing pavilion on the third-storey of the John Lewis department store in the year-old Westfield Stratford mall.
Its managers have posted a 15% rise in sales, increased the company's share of the department-store market from 15% to almost 19% (according to Verdict, a retail-research company) and widened its operating margins to almost 16% from 12%.
Penney announced that Ron Johnson, the Apple alumni-cum-retail wunderkind, would assume the top job at the 110-year-old department store.
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Penney slid 3.59, or 17%, to 17.57, after the department-store chain late Wednesday reported a wider-than-expected fourth-quarter loss and revenue that fell short of expectations.
Although Poynter provides a vital financial cushion during lean times, it can't do anything about external forces beyond its control, such as the proliferation of new Web-based news platforms or the consolidation of department-store chains, which has hurt advertising revenues.
Starting this week, the 110-year-old department store chain will bring back some of the sales that it swore off last year, the Associated Press reports.
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Kohl's fell 51 cents, or 1.1%, to 46.10, after the department-store operator's earnings outlook for the quarter and full fiscal year were below analyst estimates, offsetting better-than-expected earnings and an increase in its quarterly dividend.
The mid-priced department store chain reported another much larger-than-expected loss in the fiscal fourth quarter on a nearly 30 percent plunge in revenue in the latest sign that shoppers aren't happy with the changes it's made in the past year.
Sears plunged 14 percent after the department-store chain reported a steep quarterly loss and slumping sales after the market closed Thursday.
Twenty minutes later, we climbed the stairs out into the night, hustling after Li down the block to the Galeries Lafayette, the ten-story department store on the Boulevard Haussmann.
At the Hertie department store, Wolfgang Neubert - in charge of euro preparations - says the fear of fakes is overdone.
In the half-light, the proscenium glowed like a bright department-store window, which shadowy people behind it were dressing.
And while GPS has been open to non-military users for years, the U.S. Department of Defense, concerned that store-bought GPS readers could be used by enemies on the battlefield, deliberately distorted the civilian signal from the satellites so that receivers were only accurate to within about 300 feet.
Retailer JC Penney hired former Apple and Target executive Ron Johnson with high hopes that he would save the lumbering middle-class department store from its continued slide.
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In May Cheng raised the stakes by announcing it would develop its first Parkson-branded department store in the St.
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This includes revamping the market, attracting a new department store to the town and building a new 34-bed hotel.
Developers are turning the hotel, a long, empty department store and small buildings up the street into high-end condos.
The best dinner, highland pipers and all, is likely to be a-top the fine London department store, Harvey Nichols, in Knightsbridge, which plays host to a whisky tasting evening, courtesy of Chivas Regal.
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Joel Kotkin, of Pepperdine University, points out that today not a single major bank, department-store chain or telecoms company calls the nation's second-largest city its home.
Penney, the 110-year old department store, is undergoing a major transformation, led by CEO Ron Johnson who previously ran retail stores for Steve Jobs at Apple.
On November 24th, a few days after the Japanese-owned Yaohan department store chain in Hong Kong went bust, word hit the streets that the St Honore Cake Shop chain was about to follow suit.
Elsewhere, department store sales fell 1% during the month - after rising 1.4% in June - while furniture store sales sank 1.3%.
The 150-year-old House of Fraser operates 47 department stores in the UK, opening its latest store in Croydon earlier this month.
Penney locations fell 26% in the latest quarter, a sign that the 110-year-old department is having trouble maintaining a customer base as transitions to the specialty department store Johnson envisions.
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Penney's plan to re-invent the struggling department store under Johnson, who became CEO of the Plano, Tex.
The forecasts for department store Nordstrom call for same-store sales growth of 5.7%.
Target had positioned itself as the family friendly, all-American department store.
If you were to visit the huge department store Selfridges in London today, you could visit the new David Bowie Pop-Up Boutique.
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