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Mountain Games Selects Backbone Media for PR

Mountain Games, LLC has retained Backbone Media to direct the public relations outreach for the adventure sports festival. Backbone Media will manage all media communications and credentials for the sixth annual Teva Mountain Games, which will take place

The Walking Company Q2 Comps Climb 5.9%

Big Dog Holdings, Inc., for the quarter ended June 30, 2006, consolidated net sales were $53.2 million, as compared with $43.4 million in 2005, a consolidated sales increased 22%. This was primarily due to the addition of 56 new The Walking Company stores

Costco July Comps Climb 7%

Costco Wholesale Corporation net sales were $4.48 billion for the month of July, an increase of 11% from $4.02 billion in the prior fiscal year. Comparable store sales increased 7%…

Stage Stores July Comps Increase 6.2%

Stage Stores, Inc. reported total sales for the four-week period ended July 29, 2006 increased 19.3% to $112.6 million from $94.4 million in the prior year four-week period ended July 30, 2005. Comparable store sales increased 6.2% versus an increase of 2

Retail Ventures Gets Mixed Results in Q2

Retail Ventures, Inc. saw sales at its Value City stores decrease 3.6% to $290.3 million for the second quarter from $301.1 million during the same period last year. Comparable sales decreased 2.2% at the chain. At Filene's Basement, sales increase

Neiman Marcus July Retail Comps Jump 7.9%

The Neiman Marcus Group, Inc. July comparable revenues in the Specialty Retail Stores segment, which includes Neiman Marcus Stores and Bergdorf Goodman, increased 7.9%. Revenue growth trends were the strongest in the Company's stores in the Southeas

J.C. Penney Posts Mid-Singles Comps and Sales Gains for July

J. C. Penney Company, Inc. saw overall department store sales increase 5.5% for the month of July, while comparable store sales increased 4.9%, on top of a 1.6% increase in last year's period. Overall sales amounted to $1.06 billion, up from 1.00 bil

TJX Companies Posts 4% July Comps Gain

The TJX Companies, Inc. saw sales in July increase 9% to $1.2 billion from $1.1 billion one year-ago. For the year-to-date period, sales reached $7.9 billion, an 8% increase over last year's $7.3 billion. Consolidated comparable store sales for the m

Target July Comps Increase 3.1%

Target Corporation net retail sales for the four weeks ended July 29, 2006 increased 9.6% to $3.937 billion from $3.593 billion for the four-week period ended July 30, 2005. On this same basis, comparable-store sales increased 3.1% from fiscal July 2005..

Unifi Narrows Fiscal Q4 Loss on Sales Decline

Unifi, Inc.'s net loss for the fiscal fourth quarter, including discontinued operations, was $5.4 million or 10 cents per share, an improvement over a net loss of $9.0 million or 17 cents per share for the prior year. Net sales for the June quarter w

Bon-Ton Organic Sales Jump 10% in July

The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. reported total sales for July increased 187% to $210.3 million compared to $73.2 million for the same period last year. July sales include $129.6 million from the Carson's stores. Bon-Ton comparable store sales increased 12.2

Gottschalks July Comps Slip 0.7%

Gottschalks Inc. saw July same store sales decrease 0.7% from the prior year. Total sales for the month decreased 0.5% to $43.3 million compared to total sales of $43.5 million in July 2005…

Dillard’s July Comps Fall 3%

Dillard's, Inc. sales for the month of July were $528.3 million compared to sales of $543.9 million last year. Sales decreased 3% for the four-week period in both total and comparable stores.

WSA Sees Growth in Athletic

The WSA Show opened its doors with the biggest show in the history of the event with 1.2 million square feet of exhibits, 250 new exhibitors and participation from 90 countries. WSA sold out all 225,000 square feet of available space in the athletic and o