 | January 19, 2011 | News for the retail industry |  |  | |
- Li Ning to spend $10 million to build U.S. business this year
Chinese sports-apparel maker Li Ning plans to expand its U.S. sales this year to win market share from rivals including Adidas and Nike. Li Ning partnered with Chicago-based Acquity Group, which will design an ad campaign to begin in the spring. The company sells its products through Champs Sports and Foot Locker's Eastbay chain and opened a showroom in Portland, Ore., last year. The Wall Street Journal (1/19)       - Disney brings its magic to Times Square
Disney set out to recreate the experience of its theme parks with the redesign of its Times Square flagship in New York City. The two-story, 20,000-square-foot store includes trees with high-def animation that changes with the seasons and a talking mirror in the 20-foot-high Princess Castle. STORES magazine (1/2011)  | Residents of Top Rung neighborhoods are always in style, preferring to shop at retailers such as Nordstrom and Macy's. They also shop online and are avid readers. How can you find this type of customer? Esri Business Analyst Online enables you to identify your best customers and find more like them. Check out the free Esri ZIP Code Lookup tool. | - 3 ways product packaging can help you sell
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 | NRF 100th Annual Convention & Expo |  |  | | |  | - Retailers find new uses for RFID
 Chains including Wal-Mart and Macy's shared their experiments in RFID with attendees of NRF's Big Show last week. The technology has matured since Wal-Mart began using RFID chips to track pallets from warehouses to stores in 2006, and last year the chain added chips that track individual pairs of jeans and underwear to the point of sale. Macy's tested the technology at a Bloomingdale's store last year and plans to expand RFID use to individual menswear items in all its New York stores. St. Petersburg Times (Fla.) (1/18)  | Each year U.S businesses spend trillions of dollars on goods and services. Focus Research empowers buyers to spend their budget wisely by offering easily accessible and trustworthy information on vendors that support small and mid-size business operations. Download this free whitepaper that compares leading CRM vendors to ensure you choose what's best for your organization. |
 - Starbucks customers can pay with a swipe of their smartphones
Starbucks is launching a system this week that allows customers to pay for their orders by swiping their BlackBerrys, iPhones or iPod Touches in front of scanners in all 6,800 of the chain's U.S. stores and its 1,000 Target locations. Users need to download an app to access the system, which deducts the amount of the tab from their Starbucks accounts. NYTimes.com/Bits blog (1/18)  | Retailers need to maximize profits from every inch of their retail stores in order to meet heightened expectations for personalized customer service and improve the profitability of their stores. Learn more about maximizing space utilization while localizing and tailoring assortment mix, pricing, and promotions in this free white paper. |
| NRF News | | | | - Why NRF supports health-care law repeal
In a letter to lawmakers, NRF urged congressional leaders to support a vote to repeal last year's health-care reform law, saying the measure has already begun to discourage job creation. The House is scheduled to vote Wednesday on H.R. 2, the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act," and a resolution that would instruct committees to begin developing substitute legislation. Read more. - NRF SmartStat: Jan. 19, 2011
 More than 21,000 retail professionals attended NRF's 100th Annual Convention & EXPO in New York City this month. Source: NRF. - Cynthia Rowley, ideeli execs define the "luxury newcomer"
Since Q2 of 2009, luxury fashion spending has outpaced overall fashion spending in the U.S., according to a luxury panel at Retail's BIG Show. So who exactly are these retail luxury newcomers? In a recent post on Retail's BIG Blog, executives from Cynthia Rowley and ideeli detail who this new shopper is and how they shop. Read more.
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