Stable sales are good for HSN (The Tampa Tribune)
Pilates equipment is in; diamonds are out. That was one consumer trend singled out by home shopping company HSN Inc. as it presented evidence to investors that the consumer market (theirs at least) has stopped getting worse.
Making Patients More Comfortable (Voice of the Common Man)
It's a program that provides small donations, but big results. The Health Care Foundation's Comfort in Care program handed out 11 grants yesterday, for everything from TVs to outdoor furniture.
Ornamental Embellishments Give Your Garden Personality (Hartford Courant)
Carefully chosen embellishments enrich beds and borders with a strong sense of personality, but beyond that, human-made artful objects create a pleasing tension with the organic forms of the plants, serve as eye-catching focal points, add year-round interest and contribute to the overall theme of a garden.
Next brings unexpected high street cheer (Guardian Unlimited)
? 'Things have potentially bottomed out', says chief executive Simon Wolfson ? Next Directory sales were up 1.6% in the 14 weeks to 2 May ? Figures were boosted by a later Easter than 2008 ? Warmer weather benefited sales of summer clothes Warm weather and a buoyant Easter have helped Next report better than expected sales, prompting its boss to say the downturn on the high street was not as bad ...
For HSN customers jewelry is out, work out gear is in (The Tampa Tribune)
HSN customers, almost all of them women, are spending more on products they can use to improve themselves, use with their families, or can save them money, Grossman said. Anything carrying a whiff of selfish indulgence tends to sell worse. That trend showed up in HSN's first quarter earnings, released to investors Thursday.
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