Retail

Bloomberg Gymboree Group Inc will shut down after going bankrupt a second time, the victim of falling mall traffic and cheaper online sources of kids clothing. About 10,000 people could lose their jobs. The retailer filed for protection from creditors owed about $212 million in US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, according to a statement. The San ...

Bloomberg Reliance Industries Ltd will roll out its online shopping platform to 1.2 million retailers and store-owners in western India, starting on an ambitious plan to take on Amazon.com Inc and Walmart Inc.’s Flipkart on its home turf. Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man, intends to take on the world’s largest retailers by combining his Jio telecom service, mobile devices and ...

Bloomberg Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA agreed to sell six loss-making Géant hypermarkets across France to current grocery-market leader Groupement E. Leclerc for 100.5 million euros ($114 million.) The stores, located outside Paris, are “the least performing” in its network and accounted for a total trading loss of about 8 million euros in 2018, Casino said in a statement on Saturday. The ...

Bloomberg VF Corp’s quarterly beat, aided by a sales increase in China, is fuelling a rally in branded apparel peers that include Canada Goose Holdings In., where concerns of a slowdown in the region has weighed on the stock. China sales increased 23 percent year-over-year on a constant currency basis at VF Corp. During the conference call, executives said China ...

Bloomberg While the US government shutdown is keeping investors in the dark about broader retail trends over the holidays, Adobe Analytics confirmed that online sales posted rapid growth during the period. E-commerce sales jumped 16.5 percent from a year earlier to a total of $126 billion as consumers loaded up on products such as the Nintendo Switch, laptops, streaming devices, ...

Bloomberg Talks on the latest Sears takeover bid from Chairman Eddie Lampert continued late into Monday evening as stakeholders tried to reach an agreement on whether Sears Holdings Corp should live on. Negotiators initially didn’t embrace Lampert’s revised rescue plan for the bankrupt retailer, but they were concentrating on his proposal rather than competing bids from liquidators, according to people ...

Bloomberg Boohoo Group Plc lifted its full-year growth forecast after the online apparel seller’s Instagram-fuelled marketing strategy paid off over the holidays, offering a measure of relief to an embattled UK retail sector. The group lifted its growth forecast for the year to a range of 43 percent to 45 percent from a previous 38 percent to 43 percent after ...

Bloomberg Lululemon Athletica Inc rose the most in more than four months after the yogawear company boosted its quarterly sales and profit forecast ahead of the ICR Conference in Orlando this week. The move follows a series of holiday sales misses last week and prompted a chorus of praise from analysts. “In what is turning out to be a more ...

Bloomberg About half of Chinese consumers say they’re planning to spend more on luxury purchases this year in a recent survey as concerns mount that the slowing and trade war-battered economy may dent demand in the key market for premium goods. Weeks after Apple Inc said that lower-than-expected Chinese demand is hurting earnings, a new survey of 1,385 affluent consumers ...

Bloomberg Luxury cosmetics firm L’Occitane International SA agreed to buy beauty and skincare brand Elemis for about $900 million, its biggest deal on record as the maker of organic lotions looks to expand in the US and UK. The Hong Kong-listed L’Occitane agreed to buy the privately-held Elemis from Steiner Leisure Limited, according to a statement from the companies. Steiner ...