Spanish bookstore chain Beta Bookcafé will open its first store in Puerto Rico, and the region, in Carolina on Jan. 31, company officials announced Wednesday.
Sporting goods retailer Sports Authority announced Thursday it will be hiring 200 people for the company’s two newest locations in Plaza Las Américas and Plaza Carolina, which are set to open in early April 2014.
Puerto Rico’s retail sales were down 1.6 percent year-over-year in September — the most recent statistic available for the sector — when some $2.84 billion in activity was reported.
Frozen yogurt franchise Yogen Früz has increased its presence in Puerto Rico to 30 stores with the recent opening of two new locations at the Rexville Town Center in Bayamón and Galería Juncos, company officials confirmed.
Designer Aaron Stewart and his partner Fernando Rodríguez recently opened the Aaron Stewart Home Pop Up Store, at the posh Dorado Ritz Carlton Reserve’s Encanto Beach Club.
Sports Authority, one of the largest full-line sporting goods retailers in the United States, announced Monday it will be hiring department managers for the company’s two newest locations in Plaza Las Américas and Plaza Carolina, which are set to open in early April 2014.
Red Mango, one of the fastest-growing retailers of all-natural nonfat and low fat frozen yogurt and fresh fruit smoothies, is expanding to Puerto Rico with plans to open five stores in the next six months, through a $1.5 million investment that will create 75 jobs, company officials announced Monday.
Credit card company American Express will celebrate “Small Business Saturday” for the first time in Puerto Rico on Nov. 30.
A little less than 18 months after entering the local market footwear retailer Shoe Carnival is keeping its momentum going with the addition of three new stores this month, and plans to open at least five more in the next two years, Todd Beurman, senior vice president of marketing, said Tuesday.
Puerto Rico’s retail sales were down 3 percent year-over-year in July — the most recent statistic available for the sector — when some $2.94 billion in activity was reported.
Retailer Bath & Body Works made its highly anticipated debut in Puerto Rico Monday — more than two decades after first setting up shop in Ohio — with the opening of a 4,700 square-foot store in the Plaza Las Américas mega-mall in Hato Rey.
Sports Authority, one of the largest sporting goods retailers in the mainland, marked its entrance into the Puerto Rican market Thursday with the grand opening of its flagship store in Ponce.
A glittering ChocoBar, with a chocolate-based menu sure to melt a dieter's firmest resolutions, has opened in old San Juan as the first salvo in a strategy by the Cortés Group to project its brand, Cortés chocolate, internationally.
Jeans.com, a Puerto Rican clothing retailer established in 1998 catering to men 15 to 40, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing more than $5.1 million in debt.
With the goal of showcasing a broad range of local products and prove the island’s productive capacity, the Puerto Rico Products Association will sponsor the 4th edition of the “Made in Puerto Rico” fair.
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