All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Retail

This season the two most important managerial issues to ensure profitability for apparel retailers will be inventory management and cycle time reduction. Those retailers that can accomplish those tasks may not have great seasonal comps, but they will have respectable earnings.

1. Mall traffic will suffer 2. Covenience of on stop shopping for the Penny's customers will be lost 3. Will give Penny's the opportunity to enter markets with no regional or national mall presence.

Retailers of just about any type of product are looking to reenergize their own private labels.  They do not want to compete head to head  on the exact same national brands offered throughout retail.  They view private labels as a way to build store loyalty, increase profits and reduce...

Blue Nile continues to be priced as if it were a Internet growth company.  Here's why that may be a mistake.

The mall is dead, at least ins so far as ownership of the consumer is concerned.  However, retailers have been slow to react.  J. C. Penney is one company that sees the strength of a diversified real estate portfolio.  Here's why retail companies that move off mall will be the winners...

As an executive in this industry I think it is important to share a scenario that these recent activities may play into. Mark Waddles owns Wattles Capital Management. Mark was the founder of Hollywood Video and Game Crazy video game entertainment stores. Mark also owns Ultimate Electronics. When you...

Lululemon is a great retailer. It's high dollar per square foot performance and like for like sales growth are incredible in this current market. It has the niche and the company culture of a winner. With 35 stores in the USA it has major white space here and globally. Yoga is not a trend that looks...

Signet Group's same-store sales in first quarter fell 2.5 percent. Total sales rose 1 percent to $822.3 million, for the quarter ending May 3, 2008. Group performance is poor in US but doing fine in UK, what should we call it?

Zale Corp posted a 5.8-percent increase in third-quarter same-store sales, boosted by markdowns, but said it expected a loss in the period as gross margins were hurt by those markdowns. Total sales for the quarter, which ended on Apr. 30, rose 6.3 percent to $477 million. Do we know what advantages...

Less competition Better price Very good selection with a focus on newness