Nike Q2 Profit Beats Estimates for 14th Quarter in a Row

Beaverton, OR—One analyst called it reaching “the stratosphere”. And so it seems. Nike reported late Tuesday that its second quarter profit surpassed expectations for the fourteenth straight quarter. Nike’s second-quarter earnings per share of 90 cents surged nearly 22% year over year, beating analysts’ consensus for 85 cents. The bottom-line growth was mainly aided by […]

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67% of Consumers Plan to Shop the Post-Holiday Sales

Austin, TX—There are procrastinators aplenty this holiday season. And others ready to pounce on those post Christmas sales. In its latest edition of its Shoppers Trend Report, RetailMeNot reports 67% of consumers intend to shop the end-of-the-year sales and plan to spend an average of $270 during this time. The biggest motivators for consumers to […]

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Tyco to Spend $175 M to Acquire ShopperTrak

Chicago–Tyco International plc Tuesday said it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire ShopperTrak, a global provider of retail consumer behavior insights and location-based analytics, for approximately $175 million in cash. ShopperTrak measures 1,200 retailers in 97 countries. Tyco said the the addition of ShopperTrak and the recent acquisition of U.K based retail traffic analytics […]

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O’ little port of Bethlehem

A proposal for the development of an inland port in the eastern Pennsylvania town of Bethlehem is being floated by the Port of New York and New Jersey in an effort to relieve pressure on the busiest port on the U.S. East Coast.