GLG News by Former C-level Executives in the Consumer Goods & Services Councils in Member Programs

 Identical sales growth is one of the key indicators of retail health, and future success. Intelligent price reductions drive transactions and ultimately sales and share. Lower prices allow you to steal share from vulnerable higher priced competitors and narrow the price gap with Walmart...

First things first. Will a big name suffice for driving business? The answer lies in the question. The name got bigger because it served a specific purpose in the consumers mind driving satisfaction.

Retail is a global game. The top global retailers are getting into a good position in the USA and will be serious competition in the years ahead. Top shop, Karen Millen and Mango will all have flagships in NYC shortly.

Stations has now completed their known desire to circle the las vegas valley

John is correct in his brief analysis

Baugur is likely to continue to pursue Saks.

This is a defensive move for Macy's in response to Kohl's Vera Wang buzz and other exclusives done by other players. It does not not bring new or different customers into Macy's like Vera does for Kohl's. Macy's runs the risk of devoting too much space to an existing brand that needs to execute on design...

MGM coming to Atlantic City, sort of finishes the trifecta. You have Pinnacle building on the Sands site, Revel Entertainment on a site near the Showboat and MGM now planning to build next to the Borgota.

The inability of Dubai World to amass more shares of MGM stock is pretty easy to understand

Bijou Kurien the former CEO of Titan displaced more things than one when he launched TITAN. In the process ( of capturing space in the consumers mind a la Al Ries and Jack Trout ) he ensured the following on the product : relevance, being contemporary, access, information, fashion. He piggy banked on...