Retail

Bloomberg Canadian retailers posted stronger-than-expected revenue gains in January, though business waned in February, according to data from the country’s statistics agency. Sales jumped 3.2% in January, led by a pick-up in auto sales but with broad-based increases across sectors, Statistics Canada said in a release. That momentum didn’t continue into February, when receipts fell 0.5%, according to preliminary estimates ...

Bloomberg A Superior Court judge dismissed Washington’s lawsuit accusing Amazon.com Inc of anticompetitive behaviour, saying there wasn’t evidence supporting the claim that the e-commerce giant inflated prices for consumers. Attorney General Karl Racine sued Amazon last year, alleging it encourages higher-than-necessary consumer prices through policies that guarantee the tech giant a minimum profit on each item sold, while discouraging the ...

  Bloomberg Americans are finally getting out of the house as pandemic restrictions melt away like the winter snow. But Lowe’s Cos and Home Depot Inc are betting they can keep consumers interested in home-improvement projects via online and in-person workshops on bathroom upgrades and lawn care. Both retailers want to hold onto the customers that they gained during the ...

  Bloomberg Grupo Aeromexico SAB’s shares fell near the lowest price on record as the company takes the final steps to emerge from Chapter 11. The stock plunged 29% to 0.41 pesos as the window closed on a voluntary tender offer that will substantially dilute existing shareholders. The price is expected to reach zero throughout the day. Aeromexico won court ...

  Bloomberg Ocado Group Plc shares approached a two-year low after its online grocery joint venture with Marks & Spencer Group Plc warned that revenue may grow less than expected amid rising energy costs. Ocado Retail, as the venture is called, said it’s starting to cut costs across the business after first-quarter sales dropped 5.7%. Ocado shares fell as much ...

  Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc told India’s top court that truce talks to bury the dispute with cash-strapped Future Retail Ltd had failed, hours after it published newspapers notices warning the local retailer and its founders that any transfer of assets to Reliance Industries Ltd would trigger civil and criminal legal action. “We made efforts but nothing is possible,” Amazon’s lawyer ...

  Bloomberg Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) AB said sales growth accelerated as the Swedish retailer reduced the level of markdowns on its garments. Revenue rose 23% excluding currency shifts in the three months through February. Sales amounted to 49.2 billion kronor ($5.1 billion). Analysts expected 49.1 billion. Like other retailers, H&M decided to temporarily pause sales in Russia, its sixth-biggest ...

  Bloomberg Navi Technologies Ltd, the fintech startup founded by technology billionaire Sachin Bansal, has filed initial documents for a 33.5 billion-rupee ($440 million) initial share sale, a sign India’s technology startup industry hasn’t fully lost IPO momentum. Navi’s IPO will consist entirely of new shares, according to its draft prospectus, meaning that all proceeds will be plowed directly back ...

Bloomberg Prada SpA reported a rebound in full-year earnings but said the war in Ukraine makes it difficult to predict results this year. Operating profit rose to 489 million euros ($535 million) in 2021, the company said. That beat the average analyst estimate of 419 million euros and was back above pre-pandemic levels. The luxury-goods industry is bracing for a ...

  Bloomberg It has survived 150 years of changing fashion, seen off the hippies and spared many men the dilemma of deciding what to wear, but the pandemic proved the final nail in the coffin. The men’s suit has officially been retired from the male wardrobe. That’s the sartorial verdict of the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), which has ...