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NRF 2024: Retail’s Big Show Asia Pacific, the highly anticipated trade exhibition jointly organized by the National Retail Federation and Comexposium, is now open for sales and sponsorship opportunities. The event will take place June 11 – 13, 2024, at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre in Singapore. With a 14,500 sqm trade exhibition, the event is expected to draw thousands of retailers and business partners from across the region.

On this tenth anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, the American Apparel & Footwear Association, the National Retail Federation, the Retail Industry Leaders Association, and the United States Fashion Industry Association are reflecting on the tragedy and loss of life, and are recognizing the work being done by our member companies and the fashion industry to ensure worker safety in Bangladesh and around the world.

Retail sales slowed in March, but spending was still higher than the same time last year, NRF said.

The National Retail Federation today issued the following statement from Senior Vice President of Government Relations David French after the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2023 was introduced in the U.S. House.

Ahead of next week’s expected European Parliament resolution on an EU-U.S. agreement covering transatlantic data transfers, EuroCommerce and the National Retail Federation have released a white paper on the issue and urged institutions on both sides of the Atlantic to swiftly adopt and implement the framework.

The National Retail Federation today issued the following statement from Senior Vice President of Government Relations David French following the decision of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union to withhold labor at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Import cargo volume at the nation’s major container ports should climb steadily through this summer but will remain below record-setting levels seen during most of the pandemic, according to the Global Port Tracker report from NRF and Hackett Associates.

NRF Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz says NRF’s 2023 retail sales forecast was one of the most difficult he has ever prepared.

The National Retail Federation issued its annual forecast, anticipating that retail sales will grow between 4% and 6% in 2023. In total, NRF projects that retail sales will reach between $5.13 trillion and $5.23 trillion this year. 

Consumers plan to spend a collective $24 billion on Easter this year, up from $20.8 billion in 2022 and the previous record high of $21.7 billion in 2020, according to the annual survey released today by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics. Eighty-one percent of Americans will celebrate the holiday and spend an average of $192.01, the highest figure on record.