Sentence examples for retail conditions from inspiring English sources
Directors at the Birmingham-based company took the decision amid the tough retail conditions it has faced since the start of the downturn in 2008.
The recent strong line-up of books helped WH Smith's high street stores weather the tough retail conditions in the year to August 31.
It combines modern style with a dash of vintage tradition and is weathering difficult retail conditions, partly by exporting its colourful creations to countries from Germany to Japan.
"With tough retail conditions in the men's market, Bauer has made the call to close Zoo's operations," the CEO of Bauer Media David Goodchild said in a statement on Thursday.
Wall Street analysts acknowledge the challenges confronting the retailing REIT's, and they are cautious about how long the latest performance can be sustained given the fact that the mall REIT's trailed other REIT's over the last two years, when the economy and retail conditions in general could not have been better.
"While economic and retail conditions remain challenging, we were encouraged to see many stores achieving either smaller year-over-year rates of sales declines or modest sales growth compared with the past two quarters," the chief executive, Michael J. Kowalski, above, said in a statement.
The administrators said the retailer had cash flow problems resulting from "challenging retail market conditions".
"The company expects the current challenging retail trading conditions to continue," Billabong said on Friday.
At the time of its collapse the administrators said Austin Reed had "cash flow difficulties arising from challenging retail market conditions".
Master packaging systems with and without the absorbent sachets were stored for 122 d at 0 °C and were periodically opened to remove and store the individual primary package units for 10 d at 10 °C to simulate retail display conditions.
Carrefour said that since the Brazilian state-owned bank BNDES had withdrawn its backing for the French retailer's alliance with Grupo Pão de Açúcar's retail business, the conditions necessary to pursue the transaction were no longer in place.
