To the north, the retail core includes shops on Mansfield Road and Huntingdon Street, north of the Victoria Centre.
Retail and Core Retail Sales were pretty ugly with postings of -2.0% and -1.2%, respectively.
While the data in the UK was predominately positive, once again the US related data held a negative tone as Retail and Core Retail Sales continued to slide in June.
Sears had put the division up for sale back in March, saying that it wanted to concentrate on its core retail business.
Core Retail Sales figures which do not include automobiles came out even worse with a contraction figure of 0.5% for the same period.
Although of little consolation considering the actual number, Core Retail Sales in the US did meet expectations by posting a decline of only 0.1%.
Also, its core retail business continues to be as robust as ever and is benefiting from the Walgreen-Express impasse and margin expansion as more prescription drugs go generic this year.
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Although WH Smith was still making respectable profits when Ms Swann took the helm last year, its core retail business was steadily losing market share and many of its shops were stuck in a timewarp.
Revenue generated per household was 16 percent higher in the accounts at banks that provided an online brokerage, the survey found, and the revenues generated per million dollars of core retail deposits were 33 percent higher than their peers that did not offer online investment services.
In 2012, core and broad retail sales grew 8.4% and 8.0%, respectively, from 6.7% and 6.6% in 2011, but the relevant piece of information is that on a quarterly basis, retail sales lost steam across all groups, with the core index moving down to 0.9% in the three month period, from 2.2% in the third quarter of 2012.
Amazon is transforming into an electronics and apparel retail powerhouse as its old core business of book and DVD sales slows down.
Richard Repetto of Sandler O'Neill, an investment bank, says that the priority now should be getting back to core strengths of retail investing and asset accumulation.
He said that free current accounts provided a barrier to entry into the UK retail banking sector because this core product "is usually given away for free", prompting banks to try to make profits by pushing other products.
Citigroup has said its portfolio of retail credit-card loans isn't a core business.
So Dhanin is shaking up his empire, focusing on core operations: agri-business, retail and TelecomAsia, which operates fixed-line and mobile phone networks.
The first OUYA, set to launch for Kickstarter backers this March and at retail in June, comes with a quad-core A9 Tegra 3 that's been maxed out to 1.6GHz.
But Enron's investments in other operations, from broadband trading to retail energy, weren't nearly as lucrative as the core natural gas-trading business.
On Dexia, it was only on July 15 that the European Banking Authority disclosed that this retail and public-sector finance bank would have a ratio of core Tier One capital to assets of 10.4%, even after incurring notional losses from harsh simulated financial and economic conditions.
Products, business platforms and solutions to accelerate intellectual property-led innovation, including Finacle, its banking product, which offers solutions to address core banking, mobile banking and e-banking needs of retail, corporate and universal banks worldwide.
As I have written more than a few times in the past, data is pretty boring, but it is at the core of finance and all measurements, from customer profitability in retail banking to risk management in global institutions.
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The core agri-business remains a winner, and the group's retail arm continues to do well, peppering Thailand with a new 7-Eleven outlet every two days (although CP reduced its stake in that operation as well).
Conglomerate Wharf (Holdings) added 2.4% after its core profit rose by 37% on year in 2012, helped by its Hong Kong retail property, mainland property development and investment businesses.
Couple that with the fact that, unlike Apple, JC Penney does not manufacture the product they stock or control the wider Retail environment for their goods, so this approach also may also be out of synch with their core market dynamics.
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The Bank of England's Financial Stability Review shows that Barclays' retail banking loans in Spain, Italy and bailed-out Portugal are equivalent to a bit more than its core equity capital - its buffer against losses.
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