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Temporary mall stores are not the only vehicles Wolverine Slipper Group is using to pursue the holiday slipper market. In another retail partnership program, for holiday 2002, Wolverine established a [...]

* Barnie's Coffee & Tea Co., Inc., Orlando, FL, has signed a master franchise agreement with Mohammed S. Al-Huwaitan of Kuwait. The deal, which includes Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Oman, [...]

Virgin Holidays is launching a doordrop campaign aimed at consumers planning their summer vacation. It is using Circular Distributors to co-ordinate the campaign in areas near Co-Op Travel and Travelcare [...]

WAITROSE has denied media reports that it has cut the number of potato growers supplying the business. A spokesman for the supermarkets told farmers weekly that this was not the […]

Club Med has signed a deal for First Choice Retail to rack its brochures for the first time. UK and Ireland director Chris Woodbridge-Cox said the all-inclusive operator already had [...]

Bank of America Corp. said Friday that it had widened the scope of a deal to place automated teller machines in retail stores operated by Valero Energy Corp. The bank [...]

Two new stores will continue to fuel the retail resurgence on Greenwich Village's West Eighth Street. Maison Adam, a French pastry shop, and an Italian wine bar will move into [...]

Professional Packaging Services, Guiseley, Leeds, has completed its largest project with a WH Smith deal to provide total project management across ten gift lines containing 30 different products. Copyright: CMP [...]

The talk here has Luxottica negotiating with LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton about a Louis Vuitton eyewear license and there is also buzz that the company could buy smaller competitor [...]

When The Citadel Mall goes online this week, a little advance planning will make your shopping experience tolerable, if not a downright blast. The Colorado Springs-based Internet site DoneDeals24-7.com has [...]

Reckitt Benckiser is promoting its Airwick air freshener brand with a door-to-door campaign which offers consumers money-off vouchers. The two million-leaflet campaign, handled by Circular Distributors, is designed to drive [...]

Tesco.net has handed NTL Business a three-year contract to deliver a complete ISP service. NTL Business will provide an access package, user registration, member services, content management, billing and technical [...]

Home Depot Inc. continues to renovate its IT operations. The home-improvement chain last week signed a deal with Hewlett-Packard for 40,000 Compaq Evo D510 PCs that will be used at […]

As competition hots up for the hotly contested Homebase account, we hear news that TBWA/London has been knocked out of the three-horse race, leaving Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and Lowe [...]

Renewable electricity producer and supplier Ecotricity has forged a deal with cosmetics outlet Body Shop to enable it to sign up customers in the retailer's shops. The deal comes just [...]

Daniel Thomas The commercial division of the Co-operative Group has become the first UK user to sign up to Oracle's IT outsourcing service, which was launched last year. Under the […]

Looking for new ways to cater to customers, Home Depot is partnering with Dunkin' Donuts to give customers a breakfast break. With a bit of a different twist on the [...]

* Home Depot, the nation's largest home improvement retailer, will soon test full-serve Dunkin' Donuts in three of its stores. The first Home Depot-Dunkin' Donuts store will open in Manchester, [...]

Marks & Spencer is promoting its luggage department with a door-to-door campaign aimed at boosting purchases during the key summer holiday season. The retail giant has appointed Circular Distributors to [...]

SUGAR VALLEY, Ga.-Another Martha Stewart-like figure is expanding her empire. Barbara Smith, television host, author and restaurateur, has signed a licensing agreement with Mohawk Home to create a line of [...]

NEW YORK -- Fast-growing Coach Inc. is embarking on some new frontiers. The accessories firm just signed an agreement with Case London Ltd. to open up to 25 Coach locations, [...]

BUSINESS EXPANSION: In a revision of the scope of its business, Gordon Bros. Group has committed $100 million to purchase excess consumer goods directly from manufacturers and retailers. The Boston-based [...]

WILKESBORO, N.C.-Lowe's is resetting its lighting department to include Kichler brand lighting for the first time. This also marks the first time Kichler, one of the oldest and largest residential [...]

With one major credit card issuer quitting the private-label business and another getting in more deeply, it looks like the kind of shakeout and consolidation that hit general-purpose cards in [...]

Clinton, Miss. - WorldCom is looking to pull back on its agent program efforts. On a conference call last week with press and analysts, WorldCom COO Ronald Beaumont said the […]

Cable ad spending down, Hispanic TV buys up in Q1 When it comes to advertising revenues in the first quarter, cable television was the surprising big loser, down 15.9 percent [...]

Argos is teaming up with Quip, a BT-backed venture, to launch an Argos-branded telecoms product that will compete with discount carriers such as One.Tel and First Telecom. The retailer claims [...]

Inergy has agreed to start marketing Sunoco's propane at its refinery in Toledo, Ohio, with production expected at 4,000 barrels each day. Bill Gautreaux, vice president of supply for Inergy, [...]

When Detroit Edison needed to improve the cooling water reservoir system at its Port Huron, MI, generating facility, they assigned the job to Project Planner Bill Howard. Howard says, 'We [...]

Globecomm Systems [GCOM], a Hauppague, N.Y.-based supplier of end-to-end satellite-based communications services, a finalized a contract to manage Home Depot's [HD] approximately 1,300-site business television network. The deal firms up […]

Horipro and Sega Toys have teamed up to enter the character business, with Ocha-ken ('tea dogs'). Horipro is responsible for developing the presence of the new stars by placing them […]

In the last month alone, Killick Datta has doubled his brand portfolio. The founder, chairman and CEO of Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Global Brand Marketing Inc. recently signed licensing deals for [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C.-Healthy furniture retailers are snapping up hundreds of stores left vacant by bankrupt competitors, turning a miserable string of retail failures into growth potential. The recent run of [...]

NEW YORK-Brazilian music as well as Campari and orange juice flowed earlier this month at a party to celebrate the opening of the new Matteo shop in a prime location [...]

NEW YORK -- Nicole Miller caught a glimmer of electronic retailing hawking the CFDA/Vogue Fashion for America T-shirt sale on QVC this month. Now, the designer is longing for more [...]

NEW YORK -- Industry insiders last week predicted that Global Brand Marketing would secure the Nautica footwear license in a deal to be finalized this week. Though the firm refused [...]

At press time, FN learned that Maxwell Shoe Co. will bow about 65 Joan & David stores in Europe and Asia under a 10-year licensing deal with Global Retail Inc. [...]

Through a partnership with Citigroup Inc., Amazon.com began extending credit to its customers Friday by offering what the online merchant calls a 'cardless' private-label account. To encourage spending -- especially [...]

Global Sports Inc., a developer and operator of online stores, most of which sell sporting goods, has been selected to develop and operate the online store for Pro Golf of [...]

The announcement last May that Ashworth would team with Callaway Golf to develop the Callaway Golf apparel collection piqued the curiosity of many in the business who are eager to [...]

The Rainmakers LLC of Phoenix has signed Wireless Retail Inc. of Scottsdale as its newest client. The agency will provide strategic marketing services and customer communications for Wireless. Wireless Retail [...]

The vacancy rate for retail space in the Triangle continued along its seesawing path in the third quarter, moving up slightly from 5.74 percent to 6.05 percent after showing a [...]

Texas is invading the California Mart. Or at least that's what some tenants at the huge complex in downtown L.A.'s Fashion District are saying. In August, a Dallas-based group representing [...]

The Co-operative Group has taken a sub-lease from Friday Ad at 47 County Square in Ashford, Kent. The unit provides 65 metres sq of sales and 55 metres sq of [...]

Amativo, the latest red wine to come from southern Italy, has won a listing in Waitrose where it will retail at 5.99 [pounds sterling]. The wine has been sourced by [...]

GLOBAL GRABS GOLF SITE: Continuing to gobble up clients for its e-commerce services, King of Prussia, Pa.-based Global Sports Inc. has just won the contract to develop and operate an [...]

Santy Advertising of Phoenix has been hired by Xyron Inc. to oversee a 'seven-digit' national marketing campaign, though the agency would not divulge the exact figure. Scottsdale-based Xyron provides retail [...]

ThinkNatural, the health retailer, has struck a deal with Emap Esprit to create different co-branded online stores for five of the publisher's magazine web sites. ThinkNatural will now supply retail [...]

Marketing agency BaseSix Inc. survived this year's online advertising roller-coaster ride and laid a solid billing foundation by inking three new deals with national companies last month. Web-based work for [...]