The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: The Boeing Company, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, J.C. Penney and Kohl’s

On Monday October 10, 2011, 6:26 am EDT For Immediate Release Chicago, IL – October 10, 2011 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: [...]

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The Local Buzz: Sept. 17

ARCADIA Sephora to hold grand opening Sephora, a retailer that sells beauty products, and J.C. Penney Inc. are opening a location in the J.C. Penney store at the Westfield Santa Anita mall on Sept. 30. The first 450 clients to show up at the grand opening will receive an exclusive Sephora giveaway bag stuffed with [...]

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How Department Stores Came Back into Fashion

ByCotten Timberlake andMatt Townsend With Lady Gaga blaring overhead, Felicia Terry and Susanna Chung check out a display of dressy, short-sleeve tops in a Manhattan store. A few feet away, a black chandelier hangs over rows of skinny jeans and aviator sunglasses. A pair of chic peep-toe sandals selling for more than a C-note floats [...]

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Retailers welcome boutiques

“Hamlet” had its play-within-a-play, and now retailers have adopted the idea. A few months ago, J.C. Penney Co. Inc. opened a European-style women’s apparel store- within-a-store called MNG by Mango. J.C. Penney already hosted beauty-products retailer Sephora in its department stores. In San Antonio, Sephora and MNG by Mango are in JCPenney stores at North [...]

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J. C. Penney Posts Healthy Sales

J. C. Penney Company Inc. (JCP – Analyst Report), a leading retailer of apparel, footwear, accessories, fashion jewelry, beauty products and home furnishings, recently reported its sales results for the five-week period ended January 1, 2011. The company’s comparable-store sales for December 2010 climbed 3.7%, following an increase of 9.2% and a fall of 3.8%, [...]

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N.J. stores prepare for pre-Black Friday sales blitz

Published: Sunday, November 14, 2010, 6:50 AM     Updated: Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 10:29 AM Since the advent of the merchandising shock-and-awe campaign also known as the holiday season, savvy shoppers have approached sales like veteran soldiers — with strategy, tenacity and boldness. The really smart ones, with body armor. The deployment has begun. Retailers [...]

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