Retail spending in the months of November and December 2016 was the strongest in five years. Retail sales increased 4.8 percent during the holiday season when...
Wellington, New Zealand, has become a hub for successful tech-based startups and social enterprises due to its 20 percent advantage. It is 20 percent easier to...
Get ready for some rather large numbers. This could very well be the year Apple hits $1 trillion in revenue from iOS. At least 1.2...
McDonald’s Corp. has reached a pact to sell most of its China- and Hong Kong–based operations to Citic, the Chinese state-backed entity, along with Carlyle...
Cash withdrawals set a record on Dec. 23 in the U.K., with Brits withdrawing £730 million from LINK cash machines. Consumers took out the money...
On this year’s National Returns Day (Jan. 5), more than 1.3 million packages were shipped back to retailers, with a total of 5.8 million slated to...
Macy’s announced that it will close down another 68 stores and cut an additional 6,200 jobs following disappointing holiday sales. Some of those closings —...
In 2017, Starbucks is planning to expand its store footprint 8 percent over the course of the next nine months and grow worldwide sales about...
According to Nielsen, last year was a big year for digital, including new devices, new apps and the market for virtual reality (VR) devices. Facebook topped the...