Posts from ‘November, 2008’

Big chill in the Big Apple

Spending just a few days in New York is a real eye-opener to the scale of the difficulties facing retailers here. The long, lingering late autumn mildness gave way to a big chill that blew into the City and with it dropped the mood of pretty much every retailer. A cold snap the week before [...]

Getting back to basics

Retailers everywhere will be focussed more than ever before on the next seven weeks of trading. Rarely can there have been a more crucial Christmas and Holiday trading period – for retailers right around the globe. And for suppliers too. Much has been already written about the dramatic collapse in toy orders with China, the [...]