Retail

EVENTS

Sanctuary Enters Owned Retail With Beverly Hills Flagship

By Alexandra Romero, Contributing Writer | March 6, 2026

After nearly three decades as a wholesale- and D2C-driven contemporary label, Sanctuary has entered owned retail with the debut of its first flagship, on Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 27.

PacSun 3Q Profits Up 30 Percent

Net income for Pacific Sunwear of California Inc. shot up 30 percent during the third quarter to $31.9 million, Chief Executive Officer Greg Weaver said during a Nov. 8 conference call with r...

Luxury/Specialty Stores Report Stellar October '04 Sales

October’s sales chased away the retail blues of September and August, and the companies with the right stuff to wipe out the sluggish business trends were luxury and specialty stores....

Wet Seal Attempts to Avoid Bankruptcy With Cash Infusion

The new executive at the helm of troubled teen retailer Wet Seal Inc. believes the company has to react faster to trends and change merchandise more rapidly to survive....

Howe Homme: My Home, My Store

Up-and-coming rock band West Indian Girl performed by the kitchen, and a premium-denim boutique opened for business in the living room. That’s the way Jade Howe turned his re...

Strong Economy Should Boost SoCal Holiday Sales

Christmas 2004 should be a merry one for Southern California retailers, according to Jack Kyser, chief economist of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. ...

Rodriguez Introduces Cuban Concept Store

Ernest Hemingway’s lean prose and the tangy refreshment of mojito cocktails sparked America’s obsession with Cuba more than 60 years ago. Now, Cuban-American retailer Eddie Rodriguez hopes to turn this...

TopButton.com Is First-Class

New models for selling clothes online have been few and far between this year. The story has mostly been about refinement and consolidation...

Metropark's First Hurdle

The hard part of retailing just started for Metropark, Orv Madden’s new concept store headquartered in City of Industry, Calif....

Azria Tours BCBG Renovation

Even though he has been busy opening three free-standing BCBGMaxAzria stores and producing the musical “The Ten Commandments,” Max Azria managed to carve out time on Oct. 21 to tour th...

Mr. Hadar's Movable Store

If there’s one thing that Lorenzo Hadar has learned from his 20 years of keeping shop at chi-chi Sunset Plaza in West Hollywood, Calif., it’s that anything is possible....

Retailers Save Time, Money With EDI

The bars and lines of the Universal Product Code (UPC) and the e-mail-like network of electronic data interchange (EDI) are becoming the uniform language of retailing, but how does one learn this way ...