Archive | August, 2015

Small Is the Next BIG Story in Retail

A new Unity Marketing white paper reveals the consumer trends turning the high-potential shoppers away from the mall and back to specialty retailers on ‘Main Street’  Shopping malls are becoming the 21st-century version of ghost towns.  While mall owners blame the trend on the closing of anchor stores, like Macy’s, JC Penney and Sears, the […]

Neiman Marcus IPO: Time to Cash In & Get Out

Only two years after acquiring Neiman Marcus from private-equity firms, TPG and Warburg Pincus LLC, its new owners, Ares Management PPC and the Canada Pension Plan Investment board, have announced an IPO to take Neiman Marcus Group public. The timing looks prescient, since the stock market continues on a roll and the company can report […]

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How to Entice Holiday Shoppers This Year? Set your sights on the affluent ‘heavy-lifters’

What’s your retail marketing strategies for holiday 2015? Now that the National Retail Federation (NRF) has downgraded its retail forecast for 2015, from 4.1% increase to only 3.5% over 2014, what is your strategy to jump start retail sales this holiday season? For my money I think holiday 2015 is going to be much tougher […]

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