With 2010 in full gear, my January highlight was watching about 18,000 of the most influential people in retail descend on the Javits Center for Retail’s BIG Show. Not surprisingly, much of January’s most popular news revolved around those four days the retail community spent together in New York (but that wasn’t everything, so read on).
Since many of you attending the Convention in New York were likely too busy to take it all in – and those of you who weren’t there might find some of the nuggets that we could share helpful – here’s a list of what was hot in retail last month.
NRF information
- The homepage for Retail’s BIG Show was actually visited more than NRF’s homepage for many days in January, with some of the most popular links on the website for session handouts and Annual Convention blog posts. And apparently the retail community is as excited as we are for NRF’s 100th Annual Convention next year in New York because that site, which launched right after this year’s Convention, saw a ton of traffic. We’ll see you in 2011!
- The NRF Foundation’s annual ranking of the best retailers for customer service.
- NRF’s recently-revamped membership page, featuring easy ways for people to learn if their company is a member so they can take advantage of the benefits.
- NRF’s 2010 economic forecast and the full report of our members-only Retail Sales Outlook written by NRF’s chief economist. The announcement of preliminary holiday sales numbers garnered quite a bit of interest, too.
- Although it was released with just a few days left in January, RAMA’s annual Super Bowl survey, which gives insight on what retailers can expect in the days leading up to the big game, was tremendously popular.
Blog posts
- Five luxury lessons from Tory Burch and Saks
- Life is good CEO makes attendees feel…well, you know…
- Container Store CEO highlights how the best retailers stand out
- Ten management lessons from Tesco’s CEO
- Introducing Retail Horizons: Benchmarks 2009 – Forecasts 2010
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