Four years ago, Nike Inc., the $9.9 billion athletic wear and running shoe giant, realized it had a woman problem. John Hoke, global creative director of Nike brand design, who had joined the company in 1992 to launch the Niketown concept, saw...
It's nearly Christmas season. So where are retail sales? A month before Thanksgiving, the outlook is grim. After bolstering the economy all year, consumers are pulling back. September and October same-store sales have been flat or down across the...
For the FOX Sports Grill, a new concept debuting this month in Scottsdale, Ariz., don't think Planet Hollywood. The restaurant/bar is partly owned by Fox Sports Net, but co-owner Ed Freeman, CEO of B&B Restaurant Ventures in Santa Barbara...
Closure of several tenants at one of America's most closely watched entertainment retail venues, Sony Metreon in San Francisco, spawned rumors that the high-tech entertainment center was failing. But perception and reality aren't on the same track...
New York is a state of two competing personalities. That split is apparent in everything from politics (progressive in New York City and conservative upstate) to choice of food (low-cal Tasti D-Lite in the fitness-crazed metropolis and frozen...
A recent report by Morgan Stanley analysts Matthew Ostrower and Alan Calderon forecasted a grim future for Eddie Bauer. Based on “conversations with REIT executives,” the pair predicted that the Seattle-based retailer would shutter as many as 250...
Who are the active women that Nike and other sports apparel vendors are targeting? Where do they live and what do they buy? American Demographics teamed up with New York-based Mediamark Research, Inc. to find out. Using a combination of attributes...
In our time-starved, pressure-filled lives, “shopping” no longer brings back memories of a Main Street department store decked out at Holiday time or that one-of-a-kind gift bought on vacation. Shopping has become a chore. And couldn't we buy that...