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• As Retailers Report, Sales Growth in Focus Tuesday, 21 May 2013 | 2:33 PM ET

  

  While 94 percent of the companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index have already reported quarterly earnings, this week remains a key week for the retail industry with 24 retailers reporting earnings—12 of which are S&P 500 components.

• Burberry Profit Rises 14% Helped by China Demand Tuesday, 21 May 2013 | 2:24 AM ET

  

  British luxury group Burberry posted a 14 percent rise in full-year pretax profit and said profit for the first half of its new fiscal year would be below last year's as it reduces its wholesale business in favor of retail markets.

• Urban Outfitters Q1 Revenue: $648 Million  Monday, 20 May 2013 | 4:08 PM ET

  

  CNBC's Bertha Coombs reports on Urban Outfitters' Q1 earnings data.

• Internet Is Changing the Game for Macy's: Pro   Wednesday, 15 May 2013 | 5:50 AM ET

  

  Rick Snyder, retail specialist at Maxim Group, tells CNBC that Macy's should offer a very good performance with a 58 cent quarter.

• It's Not a Stretch to Offer Plus-Size Yoga Attire Monday, 13 May 2013 | 2:22 PM ET

  

  As the popularity of yoga grows, so does the need for yoga attire with larger waistlines. Brands are finding there is demand for plus-sized yoga apparel.

• Why Investors Should Mind the 'Gap' Monday, 13 May 2013 | 11:55 AM ET

  

  It's good to remember that some turnarounds have happy endings. For retailer Gap, the current outcome is a positive one as investors are again falling into the Gap.

• Supermax: Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities  Sunday, 12 May 2013 | 8:40 PM ET

  

  Stanley Thai, Founder and Executive Chairman of Supermax tells CNBC how he built the world's second largest glove maker.

• 49ers Strike Deal to Name Stadium After Levi's Wednesday, 8 May 2013 | 4:50 PM ET

  

  The San Francisco 49ers and Levi Strauss have reached an agreement for a $220 million, 20-year naming rights deal for the team's future stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.

• Abercrombie's PR Problem  Wednesday, 8 May 2013 | 2:43 PM ET

  

  Is Abercrombie's customer base shrinking? Jan Kniffen, Worldwide Enterprises CEO and Robin Lewis, The Robin Report CEO, the future of Abercrombie & Fitch and JC Penney.

• Don't Look at Short-Term Retail Trends: Pro   Wednesday, 8 May 2013 | 3:30 AM ET

  

  Richard Perks, director of retail research at Mintel International, tells CNBC that confidence among consumers has been on a very slow long-term upwards trend for about two years.

• Reputations on the Line: Retailers Rethink Sourcing Friday, 3 May 2013 | 2:45 PM ET

  

  Major retailers like Wal-Mart, J.C. Penney, Gap, Nike and Target are feeling a new degree of pressure to re-assess global sourcing strategies. And that may prompt them to take some potentially costly steps.

• Northeast Cold Snap Takes Bite Out of Retail Sales Monday, 29 Apr 2013 | 11:33 AM ET

  

  Cooler than usual weather is taking a bite out of retail sales in the Northeast. The situation could impact first quarter margins – when retailers report quarterly earnings.

• Death Toll Soars in Bangladesh Factory Collapse Friday, 26 Apr 2013 | 8:14 AM ET

  

  Rescuers pull survivors from Bangladesh's worst industrial accident, but the toll soars after a building housing factories that made low-cost garments for Western brands collapsed.

• JC Penney Jumps on News Soros Owns 7.9% Stake Thursday, 25 Apr 2013 | 5:51 PM ET

  

  Shares of beleaguered retailer JC Penney rose more than 7 percent in after-hours trading on Thursday after billionaire financier George Soros disclosed a 7.9-percent stake.

• UPDATE 1-Bangladesh building tragedy down to West's cost squeeze -NGOs Thursday, 25 Apr 2013 | 4:52 PM ET

  LONDON, April 25- Major western clothing retailers squeezing Asian suppliers and a flawed approach to ensuring even basic working standards are fuelling conditions for tragedies like the latest factory collapse in Bangladesh, NGOs said on Thursday.

• UPDATE 1-Bangladesh building tragedy down to West's cost squeeze -NGOs Thursday, 25 Apr 2013 | 4:52 PM ET

  LONDON, April 25- Major western clothing retailers squeezing Asian suppliers and a flawed approach to ensuring even basic working standards are fuelling conditions for tragedies like the latest factory collapse in Bangladesh, NGOs said on Thursday.

• Bangladesh building tragedy down to West's cost squeeze -NGOs Thursday, 25 Apr 2013 | 9:43 AM ET

  LONDON, April 25- Major western clothing retailers squeezing Asian suppliers and a flawed approach to ensuring even basic working standards are fuelling conditions for tragedies like the latest factory collapse in Bangladesh, NGOs said on Thursday.

• Bangladesh building tragedy down to West's cost squeeze -NGOs Thursday, 25 Apr 2013 | 9:43 AM ET

  LONDON, April 25- Major western clothing retailers squeezing Asian suppliers and a flawed approach to ensuring even basic working standards are fuelling conditions for tragedies like the latest factory collapse in Bangladesh, NGOs said on Thursday.

• WRAPUP 3-Many trapped in Bangladesh building rubble as toll climbs to 187 Thursday, 25 Apr 2013 | 5:27 AM ET

  *Canada's Loblaw, UK's Primark say their garment suppliers at site. DHAKA, April 25- Survivors from a building that collapsed in Bangladesh killing at least 187 mainly women workers described hearing a deafening crack before the complex housing factories supplying Western clothes retailers crashed down in a matter of seconds.

• WRAPUP 3-Many trapped in Bangladesh building rubble as toll climbs to 187 Thursday, 25 Apr 2013 | 5:27 AM ET

  *Canada's Loblaw, UK's Primark say their garment suppliers at site. DHAKA, April 25- Survivors from a building that collapsed in Bangladesh killing at least 187 mainly women workers described hearing a deafening crack before the complex housing factories supplying Western clothes retailers crashed down in a matter of seconds.