Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Retail sales, becalmed since last September, rose briskly during June at a dozen major chains. Sears, Roebuck and J. C. Penney both announced an 8% sales gain for the month, while Interstate Department Stores, with 107 outlets in 83 cities, experienced a 14% rise in volume. The increases spread across many fields. Sales of the Grand Union grocery chain rose 9%, those of the Walgreen drug chain 15%, those of the S. S. Kresge variety chain...
What is special about these business leaders is that they are all women. One of them, Mrs. Tran Thai Muor, is vice president of the Saigon Chamber of Commerce. Another, Miss Bich Tuy Truong Thi, is general manager of Socipha, a drug manufacturing house. Others are involved in retail selling, manufacturing, pharmacetuicals, chemicals and textiles, import-export business...
Since many of the new devices will not reach retail outlets until next fall, it is too early to predict the reaction of audiences and noise-numbed parents. But judging from the enthusiasm of dealers and observers at last week's industry show, there may well be a boom in earplug sales...
...Union Carbide, and Tata Oil Mills Co. to handle distribution. The companies do not expect enormous profits from the birth control sideline, but they see it as a useful demonstration of cooperation between government and private enterprise. By enlisting the companies, New Delhi will have up to a million retail outlets at its disposal...
Chile to Chad. Those have expanded mightily in the bank's eight years under Chairman Rockefeller (distant cousin of Chase Manhattan President David) and President Moore. Aggressively pursuing "retail" banking business, First National City's domestic branches have spurted from 84, all in New York City, to 166, spilling into the populous suburbs. Earnestly following the expansion of U.S. business abroad, the bank's overseas branches have more than doubled to 206 in spots from Chile to Chad. And having pioneered the personal loan in 1928, the bank now offers nearly every kind of financial service from...