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A 13-year-old Wichita computer company is growing, moving into a new 30,000-square-foot South City location as its custom PC business expands.
Post-Christmas layoffs and a renewed search for work by the unemployed pushed the Wichita-area unemployment rate in January to 8.6 percent, from a revised 7.8 percent in December, the Kansas Department of Labor said Tuesday.
A Manhattan company has ended a 42-year vendor relationship providing spring plants and flowers for sale at Dillons stores.
In about eight weeks, Wichita officials should have the beginnings of a retail recruitment checklist, spelling out the types of businesses that can prosper in a successfully revitalized downtown.
Expect to see those QuikTrip "under construction" signs popping up around Wichita in 2010. The Tulsa-based convenience store chain promises another year of tweaking the business model in Wichita, where it operates 37 convenience stores. Tweaking means new stores, bigger stores and potentially relocated stores, said spokesman Mike Thornbrugh.
Flat sales equals a good year.
Wichita western wear retailer Sheplers has named Bob Myers its CEO, the company said Monday.
NEW YORK — The nation's retailers are likely to see sales rise moderately this year after a rare decline in 2009, according to a forecast to be released Tuesday by the world's largest retail trade group.
Construction has begun on two pilot Kwik Shop expansions in northwest Wichita, as the division of Kroger targets underserved food and prescription niches in its battle with QuikTrip for convenience store market share.
Star Lumber & Supply has reshuffled its leadership, preparing for what officers call "an aggressive decade of growth."
LOS ANGELES — The nation's retailers saw modest sales increases and a rush of last-minute Christmas shoppers in December.
Holiday shoppers spent a little more this season, according to data released Monday, giving merchants some reason for cheer.
It wasn't tough to find Wichita retailers who were watching weather forecasts this week and hoping that a predicted blizzard wouldn't dampen the last day of a surprisingly strong holiday sales season.
CHICAGO — The winter storm that ripped into the Eastern U.S. over the weekend, dumping several feet of snow in some places, apparently kept late Christmas shoppers away from the stores in droves but could as yet turn out to be a mixed blessing for the nation's retailers.
An automobile wholesaler is about to break ground on a new location at 801 N. River St. in the Derby Business Park.
For the third time this year, a Wichita car dealer is being stripped of his franchise.
Though some consumers equate giving or receiving gift cards to Grandma's fruitcake, local businesses say they are an important means to attracting new customers, satisfying demand and receiving "free money."
It's been a surprisingly joyful holiday shopping season for Wichita's home-grown retailers, despite a sagging local economy.
Carlos O'Kelly's Mexican Cafe, operated by Wichita-based Sasnak Management, has signed a deal to operate two cantinas at Intrust Bank Arena.
CHICAGO — Even for the really rich, or those who are still aspiring to be that way, this is a bargain-hunting holiday season.
