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Google Toolbar Gets Personal and Wal-Mart Sees Sales at High End of Views
2 February 2006 Specialty Retail industry news provided by Financial News USA (OTC: FNWU) Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG) recently announced the latest version of Google Toolbar and a new Google Toolbar for Enterprise. The new beta versions of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer are open and customizable, with new features that enable users to customize their search experience and share information with friends. Google Toolbar was designed to make the Internet easier to use and help people find the information they are looking for as quickly and easily as possible. The new versions of Google Toolbar now offer customizable buttons, online bookmarks, enhanced search features, new sharing capabilities, and an open API. Google Toolbar for Enterprise beta also includes administration and control for business environments. OfficeMax Inc. (NYSE:OMX) released details of a new operating plan Tuesday that the struggling office supplier said should halt its sales and financial slide without requiring drastic or risky moves. Besides closing 110 stores, which the company announced Jan. 10, the plan calls for establishing a single supply chain for its retail and business customers and consolidating and improving its information technology, such as folding two data centers into one. It also outlined merchandising strategies to expand its small business customers and grow print and document services. OfficeMax did not specify how much spending the plan will entail but said its key initiatives could boost 2006 earnings by as much as $100 million before taxes.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) has estimated that its January sales will be at the high end of the company's forecast. The world's largest retailer said Saturday that sales at stores opened at least a year, known as same-store sales, are expected to rise 4.7 percent, which would be at the high end of its 3 percent to 5 percent projection. Same-store sales are considered the best indicator of a retailer's health. For the week ended Saturday, food sales outpaced demand for general merchandise. Pet Ecology Brands Inc. (Other OTC:PECB), www.petecology.com, recently announced the release of an analytical profile on the Company, by respected micro-cap valuation expert Mr. Gerald Kieft, founder and President of Wall Street Resources, Inc., which contains a short-term target value for PECB of $2.10 per share. The free report is available at: www.wallstreetresources.net/pdf/fc/PECB.pdf. The 27-page report includes detailed information on the Company's business model, products, industry, valuation, management and risks. Wall Street Resources, Inc. is a professional research and consulting firm with over 10 years of experience providing analysis for emerging growth companies and information to the investment community.
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