Retail

Bloomberg Beyond Meat Inc. is deepening its partnership with Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr., by offering more menu items and expanding to new locations. The chains, both owned by parent CKE Restaurants, will offer Beyond Meat products on their breakfast, lunch and dinner menus this month. Carl’s Jr., which already had the Beyond Burger, will now offer breakfast burritos and sandwiches ...

Bloomberg Motorola is delaying the launch of the foldable Razr smartphone in North America, saying demand for the $1,500 device has outstripped its supply predictions. The handset, announced in November, was supposed to become available for pre-order in December and begin shipping to customers in January. “Motorola has decided to adjust Razr’s presale and launch timing to better meet consumer ...

Bloomberg After hitting a record high, Nike Inc. is finding it harder to keep investors happy. Even though the company posted quarterly results that sailed past Wall Street estimates, the shares dipped, suggesting some investors were looking for an even bigger upside surprise. Fiscal second-quarter profit rose to 70 cents a share, Nike said, beating 58-cent average of analysts’ estimates. ...

Bloomberg Walmart Inc. plans to place its giant brick-and-mortar stores at the center of its strategy to take on its web-based retail rival Amazon.com Inc., Dow Jones reported. Walmart President and CEO Doug McMillon, outlining the plans at a strategy meeting, pitched a vision where the company’s stores and its retail shopping model is the base of an expanding array ...

Bloomberg H/2 Capital Partners scrapped an auction for J.C. Penney Inc.’s term loan held by the hedge fund after a weak reception from potential buyers, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Bids for H/2’s sale of about half J.C. Penney’s $1.7 billion term loan didn’t meet the seller’s minimum price. The hedge fund will continue to own its ...

Bloomberg American retailers remodel thousands of stores each year, but the process is rarely smooth. Now imagine the headaches for Walmart Inc., which overhauls 500 locations annually on its own. “Things always come up that you can’t plan for,” according to Tara Barnes, a store manager in Allen, Texas, whose location went through a refurbishment this summer. In the past ...

Bloomberg Beyond Meat Inc. is pushing further past its plant-based beef into poultry, and Chief Executive Officer Ethan Brown says that product line will finally get more attention in 2020. “You’ll see some exciting things from us in the poultry space in 2020,” Brown said in an interview with Bloomberg TV about his inclusion on this year’s Bloomberg 50 list. ...

Bloomberg Hudson’s Bay Co. Chairman Richard Baker may scrap an offer to take the struggling retailer private after regulators delayed a vote on the deal following complaints from a minority shareholder. The investor group that controls the owner of Saks Fifth Avenue is “evaluating next steps, including terminating the transaction,” according to a memo sent to advisers. The group plans ...

Bloomberg Online shoppers are getting fewer discounts on toys this holiday season, despite an effort by retailers to start sales earlier to offset a shorter shopping season. Toys were discounted on average 15-18% this year compared to average drop in pricing of 31% last year, UBS analyst Arpine Kocharyan wrote in a note, citing e-commerce trends tracked by Adobe Inc. ...

Bloomberg Sports Direct International Plc surged the most in a decade after the UK retailer said it’s seeing “green shoots of recovery” at its troubled House of Fraser department stores. The company, controlled by billionaire Mike Ashley, acquired the chain last year as the UK’s retail crisis deepened. Sports Direct said the outlook for House of Fraser is brightening after ...