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- Starbucks to test new products at Amsterdam "concept shop"
Starbucks will open a "concept shop" in Amsterdam on Friday, designed to inject local flavor into the shop and test new products designed for the European market. Local artists decorated the shop, which is set up in an old bank vault in the city's historic Rembrandt square and includes an on-site bakery. The Huffington Post (07 Mar.)      - Brands say Canada's retailers wear 2 hats
A trade group representing multinational food brands including General Mills Canada and Kraft Canada say a growing private-label push by the country's food retailers casts the merchants in a dual role and threatens innovation of new products in the future. The Gazette (Montreal) (tiered subscription model) (08 Mar.)  | Leveraging Cloud Security to Weather Threatening Storms
Web attacks and retribution campaigns are on the rise, and they have become more frequent, more random and more extreme. This paper assesses the current cyber threat environment and discusses the use of distributed cloud services as an effective means to protect against evolving, modern-day IT threats. |
 - John Lewis staff shares smaller bonus pool
Lower profits led to smaller annual bonuses for the staff of the John Lewis Partnership and its Waitrose supermarket chain for the first time in three years. The 81,000 employees will receive seven extra weeks of pay this month, down from the nine weeks they took home last year, the company said. The Guardian (London) (07 Mar.) - Focus on food sales pays off for Morrison
UK grocery chain Wm Morrison Supermarkets reported a 7% rise in 2011 sales, buoyed by a focus on food sales, which remained relatively strong as consumer spending in nonfood categories slowed. The chain plans to roll out its fresh food format, which features artisan butchers, bakers and fishmongers, to 15% of its stores in the first half of 2012. The Wall Street Journal (08 Mar.)  | Consumer Insights Your Brand Needs to Know: Latest Trends in Behavioral Advertising
Learn what brand managers, advertisers, as well as networks, agencies, and publishers need to know about consumer survey insights into behavioral ad serving, also known as interest-based advertising. Learn more today! |
 | Retail in Asia |  |  | | - UK's Booker plans 20 stores in India
UK-based retail chain Booker plans to open about 20 cash-and-carry stores in India in the next five years, even as it comes up against more ambitious plans by bigger players including Wal-Mart, Carrefour and Metro. Booker opened its first store in Mumbai in 2009 and has since grown to three locations in India. Business Standard (India) (07 Mar.) | E-commerce Spotlight | | | | | Spotlight on Consumer Electronics | | | | - China's Sundan appeals ban on iPad sales
Chinese consumer electronics retailer Sundan has appealed a court's ruling that it stop selling Apple's iPad in one of its stores. The ruling resulted from a claim by another company, Proview, which says it has owns the iPad trademark in China. CIO Asia (06 Mar.) | NRF News | | | | - KPMG global retail director talks trends for 2012
With cost-containing initiatives out for retail executives in 2012, many will look toward investing in strategies that will optimize their online and mobile platforms to increase sales and customer satisfaction. In a new post on Retail's BIG Blog, KPMG's Global Head of Retail Mark Larson discusses retailers' most important initiatives for 2012 and top themes in NRF Foundation's recently released "Retail Horizons: Benchmarks for 2011, Forecasts for 2012" report. Read more.
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