What Does Love Mean to Brands?
Love. Often people give presentations about "brand" love and cite companies like Apple, or Starbucks, or Virgin. Guess what? No other brand is Apple, ...
Love. Often people give presentations about "brand" love and cite companies like Apple, or Starbucks, or Virgin. Guess what? No other brand is Apple, ...
AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AND MAE ANDERSON | Posted 04.24.2012
NEW YORK — Sears said Thursday that it's unloading some of its profit-busting stores, but the retailer fell short of revealing how it plans to w...
HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 02.13.2012
In a still-ailing economy, shopping centers are the latest incarnations of the widening wealth gap. Indeed, go to a luxury mall owned by Taubman C...
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 02.05.2012
Regardless of the number of mom and pops around the world, a small number of retailers continue to dominate the industry as a whole. Of the top 25...
AP | Posted 03.13.2012
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — CIT Group has decided to stop financing loans to suppliers waiting to be paid by struggling retailer Sears, according to...
Gene Marks | Posted 03.05.2012
Sears has failed to get my attention. Jake's, a store 1/1000th of their size, has done a better job. And the biggest reason: service. This is how small brick-and-mortar retailers can succeed in an online world.
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.30.2011
What can we learn by looking at the year's 10 worst performers among the S&P 500? That it's not an opportune moment for alternative energy. Some finan...
Grant Cardone | Posted 02.28.2012
Sears' failing sales is being blamed on the economy, but the reality is shoddy stores, poor customer service, no leadership and no attention to sales ...
Reuters | Posted 02.28.2012
Sears Holdings Corp on Thursday identified 79 of the 100 to 120 Sears and Kmart stores it said earlier this week it would close, with the list split a...
AP | MICHELLE CHAPMAN and CHRISTINA REXRODE | Posted 02.26.2012
NEW YORK — After a disastrous holiday shopping season, the parent company of Sears and Kmart will close at least 100 stores to raise cash &ndash...
AP | By JOHN O'CONNOR | Posted 02.16.2012
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation Friday that grants hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks and incentives aimed ...
Ashley Moy-Wooten | Posted 02.14.2012
My family is also one of the millions fighting foreclosure. $350 million for the CME and Sears, while millions of us are fighting just to keep our homes. What a slap in the face.
AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 02.11.2012
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois House sought to appease some big-name companies threatening to leave the state by approving a $330 million pack...
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.26.2011
With the budgets of so many stretched thin this holiday season, retailers are doing all they can to make sure there's a Black Friday deal for everyone...
The Huffington Post | Carol Hartsell | Posted 11.22.2011
Black Friday has become a tradition as ubiquitous as pumpkin-colored pie and fried turkey-related third-degree burns. And while we're putting the fini...
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.18.2011
One Florida woman is hoping that the earliest bird gets the worm -- or a flat screen TV as the case may be. Christine Orta of Tampa is ready to ta...
Posted 12.25.2011
A proposal introduced by Illinois Senate President John Cullerton (D) Monday that drastically cuts state income taxes for CME Group and CBOE Holdings ...
AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 12.19.2011
NEW YORK — Retailers are so desperate this holiday season that they're willing to lose money to get you to spend yours. Take online jeweler Sta...
Posted 12.11.2011
Hoffman Estates village trustees voted, unanimously, to approve a resolution urging the state of Illinois to make "all reasonable efforts" to keep the...
AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 12.06.2011
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Sears Holding Corp. said Wednesday that it is talking with two prospective destinations for its headquarters even as it talks ...
Diane Dimond | Posted 11.14.2011
Babies continue to be abandoned & die -- needlessly. There are Safe Haven locations in all 50 states! We need to educate teen moms about them. This is a challenge to corporations to help. And to you.
Michele Weldon | Posted 11.06.2011
This was the Summer of the Broken and now Labor Day marks its official end. If the universe was sending me a message -- and I believe she was -- it is that I cannot forever ignore the sagging, splintered pieces of my life's machinery.
The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 11.01.2011
It was bound to happen someday: the Kardashian sisters all derobed for a joint lingerie shoot (after Kourtney gave Khloe that bikini wax, we figured s...
Posted 08.21.2011
When Illinois Governor Pat Quinn pushed a personal and corporate income tax increase through the state legislature last winter, he did so at the cost ...
James M. Clash | Posted 08.01.2011
This week not only marks the 58th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's first ascent of Everest, but the 50th anniversary of the Khumjung School, the first of many educational institutions Hillary built for the Sherpa people.
Sean X | Posted 04.25.2012