Retailing

Despite the soft patch hit by much of retail in the third quarter, extended service providers are confident that demand for advanced video display...

So you think “Made In U.S.A.” color TVs are a thing of the past? Don’t bet on it, because in fact United States-based TV...

BrandSource’s executive director Bob Lawrence and Jim Ristow, general manager of its audio/video division Home Entertainment Source (HES), discussed a variety of industry issues...

RadioShack will embark on an ambitious three-year strategic growth plan beginning in 2005 that’s designed to boost sales and earnings by revitalizing its stores,...

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) will return to 25 top campuses this fall with its third annual product road show. Dubbed “The TechKnow Overload...

BrandSource honored its own and its suppliers with separate awards during its Convention and Buy Fair, held earlier this month at the Paris hotel,...

The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) has included Apple Stores and Bang & Olufsen Concept Stores on its list of “40 of the World’s...

Coming out of one of the worst summers for room air conditioners in years, members of the NECO Alliance, who gathered at Foxwoods resort,...

BrandSource celebrated its 35th anniversary during its National Convention and Buy Fair at the Paris Hotel, here, last week by accentuating the positive, namely...

Harry Elias will step down as honorable chairman of JVC Company of America on Dec. 31, ending his 37-year career with the company as...

RCS Computer Experience customers will soon encounter a store that is much more than just a PC retailer. The single midtown Manhattan store, located...

In most cases when we underestimate, we lose. Underestimate your inventory and you lose sales. Underestimate your staffing needs and you lose sales. Underestimate...

Eddie Dees (above left) celebrated his 50th anniversary with metro New York retailer Harvey Electronics with a party with fellow employees, reps, family and...

Verizon Wireless has begun installing company-operated in-store shops throughout more than 570 of Circuit City’s 600-plus locations. The multiyear deal, which brings Circuit City...

Few manufactures ever think in terms of not selling a particular retailer. For most, the extent of their channel strategy is essentially “If they’ve...

In the previous issue of TWICE, four dealers were profiled as part of our annual Retailers To Watch series, which highlights CE and major...

More than 800 CE dealers, IT resellers, custom installers and vendors of every stripe converged on this central Pennsylvania town last month, site of...

With the goal of sharing best practices, and to salute dealers who have created a successful niche within an increasingly competitive marketplace, TWICE presents...

Six months after assuming the reins of the North American Retail Dealers Association (NARDA), president/CEO Tom Drake is ready to implement a new educational...

Circuit City is spicing up the way it sells its CityAdvantage extended service plans. As an added incentive to consumers, the company is offering...

Christmas came early this year when RadioShack previewed highlights of its fourth quarter product line for the trade here earlier this month. The sneak...

So the TV dumping case against manufacturers in China has been settled. In the wake of a finding by the International Trade Commission (ITC)...

Cowboy Maloney’s Electric City, the Mississippi brown and white goods chain, helped celebrate DirecTV’s 10th anniversary last month in a most appropriate locale: the...

Office Depot unveiled a new retail format called Millennium2 (M2) that is designed to be less expensive to open, more efficient to operate and...

Consumer spending on consumer electronics is set to rise over the next six months, although most of that disposable income will be spent at...

Here’s a look at where top CE merchants are placing their open-to-buy bets for Holiday 2004, and whether there’ll be enough holiday cheer (read...

Armed with sufficient supplies of flat-panel and microdisplay TVs, and plenty of HD content to drive them, leading CE retailers are confident of glad...

Ever since a pre-emptive online ad campaign helped make the no-budget fright flick “The Blair Witch Project” a box office bonanza, major corporations from...

For the second year in a row, eBay graphically demonstrated the range, quality and affordability of its home product offering by filling a Manhattan...

Newspaper circulars may generate more store traffic than all other advertising mediums, especially within the CE channel, a new study suggests. According to the...

In reviewing the struggle by thousands of retailers to be successful during these days of intense competition from so many giants in the trade,...

What’s that sucking sound? It’s the sound of the continuing contraction of options available to U.S. consumer electronics dealers, distributors, resellers and manufacturers to...

While Target’s flagship discount chain excels at cool CE executions (witness its Napster download music shops, exclusive Sony Liv collection, now in its second...

Sony HDTVs are carried by more retailers — nearly two-thirds of those surveyed — than any other brand, according to preliminary findings of a...

Did I miss the big celebration at CES? Did I fail to stop by the celebratory Pavilion? Or was this something the industry, in...

The Brand Source/AVB buying group is providing complimentary consumer electronics and major appliances to 150 Ronald McDonald Houses and five Ronald McDonald Camp programs...

BrandsMart USA, the five-unit Southern Florida brown- and white-goods emporium, has become the second retailer, after Sears, to carry VOOM, the high-definition TV-centric home...

Neretin Associates, a retail research firm based here, is conducting research for an HDTV brand retail penetration report covering all formats and configurations. The...

Unlike other new store formats for Best Buy, or any other chain for that matter, the tour of the Westminster location in the L.A....

Spencer’s TV & Appliance has rejoined the Nationwide Marketing Group just days after leaving the fold for the NATM Buying Corp. According to a...

Despite its name, which recalls the company’s Manhattan heritage, 6th Ave Electronics City is a New Jersey institution in the tradition of boardwalks and...