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| Q&A: Management Advice From a Retail Queen (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News) Faith Hope Consolo has spent 25 years brokering deals on retail space and advising retailers -- including Godiva , Asprey, and Fendi -- so she knows firsthand how the U.S. financial crisis is handicapping her trade. "This landscape is different from any downturn we've had," says Consolo, who is chairman of retail leasing and sales for Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate, based in Manhattan. ... |
| Atari Signs EVE Online Retail Deal (Gamasutra) Atari has partnered with Icelandic developer CCP to publish a boxed retail version of massively multiplayer online PC game EVE Online worldwide. The game will be made available in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific regions beginning in March 2009, with Atari also providing trade marketing services alongside CCP's existing consumer marketing. Previously the game was only available as a ... |
| CCP and Atari Announce Retail Box Distribution of `EVE Online' (Centre Daily Times) Atari and CCP, one of the world's leading independent game developers, today announced a partnership which will see Atari exclusively distribute boxed versions of CCP's award winning PC MMOG, EVE Online. The game will be available in retail outlets in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific regions beginning March 2009. In addition, Atari will provide trade marketing services to augment CCP's ... |
| Retail data will be key to stock market's direction (Los Angeles Times) To get a fix on the consumer, investors will focus on results from Wal-Mart and on government data. Wall Street heads into another potentially turbulent week with investors set to pore over a government report on retail sales and earnings from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to get a better reading on the consumer. |
| Stew Leonard's Named 2008 Retailer of the Year by Conn. Trade Group (Progressive Grocer) The Connecticut Retail Merchants Association (CRMA) said Friday it has named Stew Leonard's its 2008 Retailer of the Year. |
