ADVISORY/Experts Available To Discuss Chain Store Holiday Sales.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2001 TOPIC: According to industry reports and a story by CNN, chain store sales fell 1.7 percent last week from the previous week. The decrease was not entirely unexpected. According to experts in the story, there is typically a brief lull between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and this year's abnormally warm weather likely also played a part in the sales dip. Overall holiday sales are expected to grow compared to last year, because Christmas falls on a Tuesday -- allowing for an extra week of shopping, the story said. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: James Gagne is Chief Communications Officer The chief communications officer or CCO is a job title for the head of communications, public relations and/or public affairs within an organization. Most typically, the CCO reports to the chief executive officer (CEO) of a corporate entity or president of an operating unit. for Planalytics, Inc. Planalytics is a supply chain planning portal serving three vertical markets: retail, agriculture, and energy. Planalytics provides additional vital future intelligence into supply chain planning, quantifying how, where, and when weather, economic, demographic, and competitive shifts from year to year will affect supply and demand for specific products and services. Our experts can comment on consumer motivation and behavior, forecasting consumer demand, retail sales trends, holiday sales, and the effect of weather on sales and the economy. 610/407-2956; jgagne@planalytics.com Ronald C. Curhan is Professor of Marketing at the School of Management, Boston University Boston University, at Boston, Mass.; coeducational; founded 1839, chartered 1869, first baccalaureate granted 1871. It is composed of 16 schools and colleges. where he has taught marketing management, marketing strategy, retailing, and other marketing courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels. 617/353-4293 Mr. Thomas (language) Thomas - A language compatible with the language Dylan(TM). Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM). The first public release of a translator to Scheme by Matt Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory runs Holliday is President of the Retail Advertising & Marketing Association. RAMA Rama, in the Bible Rama (rā`mə), variant of Ramah. Rama, in the Ramayana Rama, hero: see Ramayana. Rama Major Hindu deity. is a division of the National Retail Federation with membership comprised of retail, agency, media, shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into and service provider executives. RAMA sponsors the annual Retail Advertising Conference (RAC See remote access concentrator. ), widely regarded as the most prestigious conference in retail marketing and advertising, attracting over 1,500 professionals to Chicago each February. PR: Jill Z. McBride 513/231-5115 jzmcbride@cinci.rr.com Elizabeth Crawford is Vice President of Executive Solutions, a market research and consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a in Long Island, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . She provides strategic marketing consulting and research to Fortune 500 clients, including: Nabisco, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Colgate, Pillsbury, Lipton, Express Retail, Procter & Gamble, Bausch & Lomb, Novartis, AT&T, et al. 515/367-6500 ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource, a collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. of Business Wire and The Round Table Group, provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/expertsource. Business Wire's Media Resource Center provides working journalists many free media services. Please visit the BW Media Resource Center at (www.businesswire.com/media) for more information. |
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