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Gap fills athletic apparel slot with purchase of Athleta
Sep. 23, 2008 Gap Inc. said yesterday it will buy women’s active apparel retailer Athleta Inc. for about $150 million in cash. Gap says buying Athleta, which sells online and by catalog, will help it tap the growing $31 billion women’s athletic clothing business in the U.S. The deal enhances Gap’s s e-commerce offerings ...
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Google, eBay and Amazon move up in global brand ranking
Sep. 23, 2008 Three Internet giants—Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and eBay Inc.—all moved up in this year’s ranking of the top 100 global brands by Interbrand, a consulting firm that specializes in branding. In addition to Amazon, nine of the 500 leading U.S. online retailers the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide also ...

Merchants should push for higher percentage of web sales, Gap exec says
Sep. 18, 2008 Instead of worrying about web sales cannibalizing store sales, multi-channel retailers should push the relatively profitable and fast-growing online channel to a higher percentage of total sales, Toby Lenk, president of Gap Inc. Direct, the apparel retailer’s online retail division, said at the Shop ...
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Dell computes the fastest response time in August
Sep. 17, 2008 At 2.62 seconds, Dell.com in August gave shoppers the fastest high broadband access time among big web retailers, says Gomez Inc. In the August performance rankings Dell.com was followed by QVC.com (2.81 seconds), Scholastic.com (3.80 seconds) and JCPenney.com (4.31 seconds). Using a dial-up connection ...
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Web site consistency largely inconsistent in August
Sep. 10, 2008 Web site consistency remained low among major web retailers in August with only 13 merchants achieving a consistency rating of “excellent,” according to Gomez Inc. The top 50 retail web sites had an average site availability rate of 95.96%. In July, 18 retailers received a rating of “good,” 15 got ...
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Shop.org elects its 2009 board
Sep. 8, 2008 Shop.org, the e-commerce unit of trade group the National Retail Federation, has elected its board for 2009. Newly elected to board are: * Anne Ashbey, vice president, Internet marketing, Harry & David * Peter Cobb, co-founder, eBags * Misty Locke, co-founder and president, Range Online Media ...

Costco.com tops the list of web site availability
Sep. 3, 2008 Costco.com at 99.83% posted the best high broadband rating among big web retailers in August, says Gomez Inc. Costco.com was followed by Newegg.com and CompUSA.com at 99.76% and 99.75%, respectively. Web shoppers could access a top 50 retail site with a high broadband connection an average of 98.76 ...
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U.S. Hispanics are active online social networkers, Forrester says
Sep. 2, 2008 U.S.-based Hispanic consumers are significantly more likely to participate in online social media than their non-Hispanic counterparts, making a social media strategy a must for any marketer wanting to reach this group online, according to a new report from Forrester Research Inc. “Hispanic Social ...

New capital wave
Sep. 1, 2008 For retailers on the cutting edge of Internet retailing, investors have cash to spend. By Paul Demery Madrona Venture Group, one of the original backers of Amazon.com Inc. and still a major player in funding new e-commerce companies, considers its early support of what has become the world’s largest ...
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Gap`s web sales shine while store sales sag
Aug. 25, 2008 The Gap Inc. posted sharply higher net earnings in the second quarter, but it’s still the web – and not stores – that remains as the company’s sales growth engine. Second quarter web sales for Gap, No. 24 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide, grew by 11% to $191 million from $172 million in Q2 of ...
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