Not exact matches
Tapestry on Tuesday reported earnings and
sales that topped expectations, fueled by global
growth of the Coach brand and an encouraging
holiday season.
During the 2017
holiday season it is projected that there will be a 16.6 percent
growth in retail ecommerce
sales compared to 2016.
While the overall retail industry enjoyed a strong
holiday season for 2016, online
sales generated much of the
growth.
Indeed the National Retail Federation has forecast retail
sales will rise as much as 4 % this
holiday season, roughly the pace of
growth for the full year.
«With several months of solid retail
sales behind us, we're heading into the all - important
holiday season fully expecting to see healthy
growth,» said NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay.
The
holiday season is the best opportunity for any eCommerce store to hit their target
sales and achieve
growth.
Third - party sellers experienced record
holiday growth: the number of sellers who exceeded $ 5,000 in
sales during the
holiday season increased 44 percent year - over-year.
While the annual unit
sales growth of print books is expected to be slightly weaker this year than in the previous two years, global information company The NPD Group predicts a strong
holiday season with 5 percent unit
sales growth in the remaining five weeks.
While e-reader
sales overall actually took a dip in the second quarter of 2011, IDC expects big
growth in shipments over the
holiday season to reach a total for the year of 27 million units, up from earlier estimates of 16.2 million.
Various observers have attributed the slowdown in e-book
sales growth to customers waiting until the
holiday season to buy new e-readers (note that the Kindle 4 and Kindle Fire were announced September 28, 2011 but didn't ship until November 21), or to Amazon's inclusion of Kindle e-books in library lending programs, which began in late September.
Sales of all Nook e-readers combined were up 70 % during the 2011 holiday shopping season, compared to a mere 2.5 % growth of regular book s
Sales of all Nook e-readers combined were up 70 % during the 2011
holiday shopping
season, compared to a mere 2.5 %
growth of regular book
salessales.
«We've had a solid
holiday season and have delivered consistent
growth throughout this year», said
sales vice president Ian Jackson....
Conor Flynn, CEO of Kimco, is enthused about this
holiday shopping
season, based on projections of roughly 3.5 percent to 4.5 percent
growth in retail
sales compared with 2016.
As the
holiday shopping
season draws near, the weaker retail chains will be facing their hour of reckoning, with their
sales growth during the November / December period determining their ability to survive.
The retail industry expects the 2013
holiday shopping
season to be a modest success, even though same - store
sales growth will be subdued due to recent macro events...
In November, at the height of the
holiday shopping
season, TJX reported same - store
sales growth of 4.0 percent, above that of the retail sector as a whole, which reported
growth of 3.2 percent, and of the discounter segment in particular, where
sales rose 2.3 percent, according to ICSC figures.