That lack of sales hit every retailing sector, but especially apparel stores.

Apiron, the company EDS is taking over, handles 70% of the company's information systems in the retailing sector.

This move towards the financial sector diversified the Tesco brand and provides opportunities for growth outside of the retailing sector.

By some estimates, more than one-third of the nation's retailing sector is affected by this welter of regulations.

Nor is there any doubt that the resilience of the small retailing sector has provided a useful form of controlled distribution for larger manufactures.

He said that in addition to his manufacturing experience he had looked after the retailing sector at American Can and had learned the financial services business.

Here is an example showing two companies in the retailing sector as it appeared in the CFO scorecard.

A combination of data visualisation tools and neural networks are currently used in military, insurance, and retailing sectors to mine information from data.

The plan focusses on the redevelopment of brownfield sites in and around the harbour area to create jobs, particularly in the renewable energy and retailing sectors.

It also has opened, or is in the process of opening, the financial services, telecommunications, and power generation and retailing sectors up to foreign service providers and greater competition.

"It was the worst Christmas" in a decade, lamented Jeffrey Feiner, a retail analyst with Lehman Brothers who follows the retailing sector.

Only confectioners, tobacconists and newsagents remain optimistic: every other retailing sector identified in the CBI survey expects business to get tougher over the next three months.

But what about our fast-evolving financial services, pharmaceutical, biotech, communications, transportation, energy and retailing sectors - all post-industrial and all arguably hindered, not helped, by bureaucratic micro-management?

Mr. Sigg said European brokers were already getting excited about the prospects for the German retailing sector and that was helping to push up the prices of the stocks.

'Famous for Its Conservatism' "The company is famous for its conservatism, in contrast to Printemps, which has moved into other retailing sectors," the Paris analyst said.

The Revolution Retailing Sector In an Upheaval If change is spreading everywhere across the Mexican economy, then retailing is in the throes of a revolution.

According to employers in the retailing sector contacted in the course of our case studies, such evening/weekend jobs are categorised as part-time, but the persons doing them do not have any special "temporary" status.

This was achieved through bringing together a huge alliance of US and European multinationals along with Brazilian counterparts involved in the soya producing, commodity trading and food retailing sectors.

They are appropriate for some of the very regular peaks which occur in the retailing sector, but are highly inappropriate for the uncertainty with which many manufacturing organisations are having to cope.

Stores Are Hardly Dinosaurs Sashco's strategy also looks smarter when one considers that it is hitching its star to a retailing sector that is less endangered than is commonly believed.

"The New York City food retailing sector has adapted itself to the unique economic circumstances of New York," says Edward McLaughlin, a professor of food marketing at Cornell University.

Given likely high dependence on fossil fuels because of reliance on transportation and storage, as well as heating or cooling commercial buildings, firms in the retailing sector would be expected to have a negative FFß, on average.

Moreover, whilst in the retailing sector enterprises might supplement their labour forces by about 10 per cent to cope with seasonal peaks, in the holidays sector the increase made might be as high as several hundred per cent.

The teenage retailing sector continued to have its runaway winners, led by the California-based Pacific Sunwear, which operates both PacSun and d.e.m.o. shops, reporting an 11.7 percent increase in November - three percentage points more than analysts had predicted.

However, Robert Buchanan, an analyst for L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin & Company, said that The Limited's slight decline reflected "a weak market and a reflection of some significant investor rotation out of the retailing sector."