Archive for the ‘Discounted Products’ Category

On Location: Sets for the Artist Marina Abramovic’s Dramatic Life

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

For this performance artist, whose retrospective opens this month at MoMA, two minimalist homes shelter an outsize spirit. read more here....Trex, the soft-edged light designed by Karim Rashid, is hexagonal and made of a glossy white heat-formed acrylic. read more here....Total ...

CONSUMER REPORTS: Rating the automakers (9 News Denver)

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

KUSA - With the upheaval in the car industry, which carmakers are the best? Consumer Reports is just out with its Annual Auto Issue, which names Honda and Subaru as the top carmakers. read more here....Re “The Four-Bedroom Kibbutz,” by Fred A. Bernstein (Feb. 11). ...

Letters: Nanny Stories

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Letters: Nanny Stories Re “How to Speak Nanny” by Hilary Stout (Home, Feb. 4) Source: feeds.nytimes.comSeen: Mattia Bonetti’s Loud Furniture The soft-spoken, Swiss-born, Paris-dwelling designer’s fete at a Chelsea gallery. Source: feeds.nytimes.comConsumer prices rise 2.6% (CNN Money) Consumer prices rose from a year ...

GBP/USD: Trading the U.K. Consumer Price Report (Daily FX via Yahoo! Finance)

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Consumer prices in the U.K. are forecasted to rise to an annualized rate of 3.5% in January, which would be the highest rate of inflation since November 2008, and the marked rise in price growth could stoke increased volatility in the exchange rate as the Bank of England maintains it ...

Reactionaries? Make That ‘Collectors’

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Reactionaries? Make That ‘Collectors’ Decades after the Cultural Revolution, China has reversed its attitude toward antiques, and the market has become hot. Source: feeds.nytimes.comDespite Crisis Efforts, Toyota's Consumer Perception Plummets (BrandWeek) With every recall Toyota has announced, consumer perception of the heralded brand has taken a worse ...

Profit From These Consumer Trends in 2010 (The Motley Fool)

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Profit From These Consumer Trends in 2010 (The Motley Fool) Consumer spending could lag the economy, even in a recovery. Source: www.fool.comU.K. Consumer Confidence Sees Small Improvement In January (INO News) (RTTNews) - British consumer confidence improved moderately in January, a survey conducted by market research firm GfK NOP showed ...

Obama to insist on consumer financial body: White House (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Obama to insist on consumer financial body: White House (Reuters via Yahoo! News) President Barack Obama will insist a new consumer protection agency stays at the heart of the overhaul of financial regulation he seeks, the White House said on Wednesday, despite suffering a serious political setback in the Senate. ...

The Puppy Diaries: It Takes More Than Paper to Raise a Puppy

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

New dog owners sometimes don’t realize how much love, care, time and patience it takes to raise a puppy. read more here....Consumer confidence in the Buffalo Niagara region remains pretty glum, although it is higher than the same time last year. read more here....Consumers especially ...

Currents | Online: Beyond Light, a Sister Site

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Currents | Online: Beyond Light, a Sister Site Yliving.com, a new Web site from the company that runs Ylighting.com, carries some 2,000 pieces of furniture and home accessories. Source: feeds.nytimes.comCurrents | Décor: Bring in the Reinforcements Like many Japanese products, Shigeki Fujishiro’s Eiffel Stool is good for ...

Currents | Online: Recycled Jugs Seen in a New Light

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Currents | Online: Recycled Jugs Seen in a New Light Richard Donnelly was one of many readers who submitted pictures of holiday lighting to NYTimes.com. Source: feeds.nytimes.comConsumer confidence in 2nd straight boost (CNN Money) A key measure of consumer confidence rose for a second straight month in ...

Sanofi to Buy Chattem, Expand in U.S. Consumer Health (Update3) (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Sanofi to Buy Chattem, Expand in U.S. Consumer Health (Update3) (Bloomberg) Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Sanofi-Aventis SA agreed to buy Chattem Inc. , the maker of Gold Bond medicated body powder, for $1.9 billion to enter the U.S. consumer health care market. Source: www.bloomberg.comGerman GfK Consumer Confidence Drops More Than ...

Flycell CEO Named Most Visionary Consumer Services Executive in 2009 Mobile Star Awards(TM) (Marketwire)

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Alberto Montesi Wins Award for Leadership and Financial Success as Flycell Wins Best Consumer Entertainment Service read more here....Julie Simonson always yearned to live near trees, so it's fitting she ended up with her family in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens. read more here....“Responsible luxury” is how ...

Consumer Group Says Popular Zhu Zhu Pets Are Unsafe (FOX 61 Chattanooga)

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

A consumer group contends one of the holiday season's must-have toys is unsafe. But the maker of the robotic Zhu Zhu Pets hamsters defended its product Saturday against a study by San Francisco-based GoodGuide that said higher-than-allowed levels of the chemical antimony were found in the toy. read more ...

(AFX UK Focus) 2009-11-28 16:37 Callebaut hopes to sell consumer business in 2010 (Interactive Investor)

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

GENEVA, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Barry Callebaut, the world's biggest chocolate maker, is still determined to sell its consumer business and hopes to clinch a deal in 2010, its chief executive was quoted on Saturday as saying. Selling chocolate to consumers had no place in Callebaut's business-to-business strategy and was ...

UPS Tops ‘Climate Counts’ Scorecard For Consumer Shipping (Journal of Commerce Online)

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

ATLANTA, Nov. 19, 2009 – UPS (NYSE:UPS) has earned the top score in the consumer shipping sector of the annual “Climate Counts” scorecard and also was rated No. 11 among all 143 ranked companies. read more here....A conversation with the Dutch design star, whose multimedia exhibition opens at the ...

At Home With Maryalice Huggins: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall

Friday, November 13th, 2009

For Maryalice Huggins, old things — particularly fine antiques — are living, breathing beings. Some radiate irresistible allure. read more here....NEW YORK -- Consumer sentiment fell in early November amid a grim outlook for future job prospects, although separate data showing rising imports in September raised ...

Seen: Beauty at the Ball

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

The theme of the New York Design Center Masquerade Ball was 1930s musicals, and members of a few design firms came identically costumed. read more here....MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)--Mexico's consumer confidence fell to a new low in October as consumers remained pessimistic despite indications of an ...

Currents | Deals: Floor Samples, Lightly Used

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Currents | Deals: Floor Samples, Lightly Used Sales at B&B Italia, the web site Atocha Design and more. Source: feeds.nytimes.comBest Cars Are Toyota, Honda, Ford, Says Consumer Reports (Time Magazine) Consumer Reports magazine ranks Ford as equal to Toyota and Honda in its reliability survey of new ...

A look at the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

A look at legislation by the House Financial Services Committee to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, or CFPA: read more here....Consumer prices were 0.9% lower compared with September 2008, after an annual decline of 0.8% in August, according to a Statistics Canada report Thursday. Market consensus was for ...

A House as a Symbol of Openness

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Brian W. Casey, the president of DePauw University, has reinvented the traditional college president’s house by opening it up to students. read more here....Geithner Endorses Consumer, Derivatives Bill read more here....Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks rose, driving the MSCI Asia Pacific Index to a ...