SINS Canadian Retailer Year Review
Monday, May 7th, 2012With many retailers operating in Canada finishing their fiscal year in Q1, we have now been able to update our SINS Canadian Retailer Year In Review report which provides easy to read one-page summaries of 23 publicly traded retailers with operations in Canada. This report is designed to give you a quick snapshot on the [...]
SINS Ethnic Retail Series – Marche Adonis
Saturday, March 10th, 2012Part three in our ten part series on Ethnic Retailers in Canada focuses on Marche Adonis, a Mediterranean / Middle East focused retailer that has five stores in the Montreal area. Adonis was in the news late last year as Metro bought a 55% interest in the retailer, opening the doors for expansion of the [...]
Canadian Retailers Valentines Day 2012
Saturday, February 11th, 2012Valentine’s Day is one of the biggest gift-giving holidays of the year. The National Retail Federation’s (NRF) 2012 Valentine’s Day Study revealed that the average person will spend US$126.03 this year. This is the highest level in the last 10 years. The survey also revealed that in the United States consumers will spend $4.1 billion [...]
A Snapshot Of Deloitte’s Global Powers Of Retailing 2012
Saturday, February 4th, 2012Deloitte recently published its Global Powers Of Retailing 2012 Report. This report provides a global retailing outlook, highlights key trends and analyzes the top 250 companies in global retailing. Five key trends were listed in the industry. According to Deloitte, retailers will be continuing to look at entering emerging markets that are currently characterized by [...]
Target Announces First Canadian Stores
Thursday, January 5th, 2012Target Canada announced its first wave of 24 stores that will be opening in Ontario in early 2013. It is not a surprise to see the first cluster of stores all located close to its Ontario based supply chain and head office. These stores will benefit from short supply chain lead times and the close [...]
Cross Border Price Audit: Costco / Walmart
Thursday, September 8th, 2011There has been a lot of attention paid to the issue of cross-border price differences lately, which appears to be triggered by the opening of J. Crew’s operation in Canada which had prices higher here than in their US stores. As outlined in a recent Globe & Mail article, J. Crew backtracked after the consumer [...]
Target Looks To Reach $6 Billion in Canadian Sales
Thursday, April 7th, 2011Reuters reported this week that Target will be looking to achieve $6 billion in turnover at its Canadian operations as it looks to grow to a $100 billion company in six or seven years time. Target CFO Douglas Scovanner also seemed to give the first indication that the store count in Canada could reach up [...]
2010 Starts Off In Growth Mode for Retail Sector
Friday, March 26th, 2010Last week saw the retail sales results released by Statistics Canada and for the most part the news way quite good. Retail sales (excluding Automotive) were up 3.5% vs. January 2009 – a good start to the year. Seen through this lens, the results should mean a very good start to the sales year for [...]
