Colorado car and truck dealers are encouraged after new car and light truck registrations in Colorado finished 2011 with strong sales. A report by the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association said Monday people went on a holiday spree in December, with registrations up 25 percent over the previous year. Dealers say 2011 registrations were up more than 15 [...] [...]
Many retailers delivered solid sales gains for December, but heavy discounts needed to get shoppers to buy exacted a high price, clouding the holiday shopping season. Merchants had to mark down coats and other gifts to get shoppers to buy in a challenging economy. A mild start to winter also didn’t help, wilting shoppers’ appetite for [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: December 15,2011
Tags: forecast, holiday, National Retail Federation, Sales
Looks like the holiday will be even jollier than first thought – at least for the nation’s retailers. The National Retail Federation has revised its holiday forecast upward, expecting holiday sales to rise to 3.8 percent this year. The overall forecast is a record $469.1 billion in sales. NRF’s initial forecast called for anticipated sales growth of [...] [...]
by Amanda Miller Published: November 22,2011
Tags: employees, online shopping, Retail, Sales, shopping
Workers looking to take advantage of Cyber Monday online deals will have a harder time sneaking past the guards at work this year, according to a survey of employers. Robert Half Technology found in a survey of Chief Information Officers that 60 percent of them block access on employee computers to retail and other online shopping [...] [...]
by Amanda Miller Published: October 14,2011
Tags: Jobs, Retail, Sales, store closure
Gap Inc. today announced that it will close 21 percent of its U.S. stores. There is only one Gap store in Colorado Springs. It’s located at the Chapel Hills Mall at 1710 Briargate Boulevard. Staff at the store directed questions about the store’s future to corporate offices. “With respective to providing a list of stores by region/local [...] [...]
by Monica Mendoza Published: September 22,2011
Tags: hospitality, Marketing Association International, Sales, Tourism
Colorado Springs hotel sales executives, general managers and event planners rate Colorado Springs high against Vail and Albuquerque, but said the city falls short when compared to Denver, especially in the area of night life. The group of about 50 hotel sales executives and event planners from the Hospitality, Sales, Marketing Association International local chapter met [...] [...]
When I first came to Colorado Springs in the summer of 1986, with a freshly minted doctorate from a university on the east coast, I thought I knew it all, especially when it came to ethics. I was teaching ethics seminars at Boston University’s medical school. I drafted the Informed Consent form for one of the [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: May 5,2010
Tags: apparel, equipment, retailers, Sales, ski, snowboard, telemark, western
Higher prices – not more sales – marked the 2009-2010 winter sports season. Nationally, retailers sold $2.9 billion this season, up from $2.8 billion a year ago, according to information from Snow Sport Industries of America, a trade group for winter sports. That increase wasn’t due to more items being sold, unit sales were down 4 [...] [...]
by Contributing Writer Published: December 26,2009
Tags: entrepreneur, Sales
Most successful entrepreneurs remember their first time like it was yesterday. In fact, the rush of excitement they felt the first time is part of their desire to do it again and again. What am I talking about? If you guessed that I’m talking about the “s” word, you’re right, SELLING. Most successful entrepreneurs remember the first time [...] [...]
by Ann Snortland Published: October 9,2009
Tags: middle market, Sales, snortland
Recent headlines have declared that the economic downturn has hit bottom and that perhaps the recession is over. Unfortunately, we can’t all let out a big sigh of relief and watch business magically return. Most middle market companies have cut costs to the bare bones, and then some. Many are still in a very tough financial [...] [...]
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